Quatre: Just a thought

I never know if I should post progress from freelancing jobs on here. So I usually don't. Does that breach some sort of unspoken, yet assumed confidentiality between myself and my clients? Or does the basic premise of graphic design -- visual communication of information to the masses -- prevent this from even being an issue? Especially if this is work that upon its completion is going to be viewed, free of cost, by the public anyway.

It's food for thought.

To be safe, I tend to reserve this blog for my personal work and experimentations in addition to including things I've seen that strike some sort of chord with me.

I was thinking about this. I also began to ponder over the idea that while I'm usually pretty intuitively driven I constantly try to understand why a certain thing moves me. Is it the construction? The execution and style? Or is it the content that moves me? When we're referring to design, I don't think you can really have one without the other.

This is just a thought I had, another contemplation amidst a sea of many...

There's so much visual stimulus constantly surrounding us; how do we determine what's good, what's bad? Why do certain concepts in design have a greater inclination to move us over others? Is it all in the execution or the concept? The style or the content? It's an intuitive harkening to a great degree and it's sometimes difficult to articulate, but I think that the ability to understand our psychological responses to the things we see is what really distinguishes a great designer from a good one. Having that ability to understand how and why, in addition to being able to articulate these ideas and thoughts, gives a designer a certain strength that designers who work solely from intuition might lack slightly. And I'm always trying to think about that -- the why's and how's -- as I work.

I leave you at that. Time for lunch, and then some more pencil illustrations in...Illustrator.