Precisely what I think when I come across a new product being marketed everywhere I look, copying the same out-dated functions of the previous product but with a slightly modified design. People are willing to pay far too much for useless overpriced products out of convenience ignoring the fact they could have purchased something a lot better for less.
Designers now should be ‘refining’ and ‘improving’ upon every aspect of a product and not replicating old designs. It makes no amount of sense to mass-produce things we do not need. We should only be manufacturing things that last up to 10 or more years with the assurance that the quality will remain.
Everything Is Designed. Few Things Are Designed Well.
Just show up and get to work.
via wearethedigitalkids:
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
-Chuck Close
Image from Wisdom
Do what you love and don’t focus on money - life’s too short.
- Matt Mullenweg
You know you’re blogging too much when your Doctor puts you on Vitamin D supplements because you never go outside
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
- Biz Stone
