First Things First

My mind usually goes blank when I first read the paper of a newly assigned project. Reading it make me think of questions about how it should be, what way it should look. Letting a couple of days to wonder about the project gives me time to research about the main topic of the CD, which is Jazz music. So, taking a peak at the previous Jazz CD that was made by other students in the past gave me some ideas of how similar they all looked and how they are similar. Now it's time to do some deep research on Jazz on good 'ol Google. Looking up on Jazz's history of how it became and what mood it sets off when people hears it. After getting to know the music Jazz more, it's time for some thumbnails roughs to plan out what design I want it to look it. After many reconsiderations I would transfer the roughs to digitals. From there I would get some critque to see if I'm proceeding in the right direction.

Who Am I?

After the video of Ken Robinson speech about School Kills Creativity, it made me think about my past. Looking back at my elementary school I vaguely remember there was a music class, not sure if there was an art class. Back then teachers were strict about knowledge instead of letting our creativity out. I do agree with Robinson about schools taking away creativity, because creativity is also important in people's life, that's what makes us all different and unique. We all learn and inspire from each other creating something new each day. Without creativity it would become dull and repetitive like the school system. Also, with the new technology people would start using pills to balance a child's hyperactivity.
Who am I, in the context of creativity and design? The question is quite hard to answer, even I don't know where to start. Since, creativity is based on oneself, in other words if I were to describe my creativity I suppose it's from influences especially from my life experiences. Pop art is probably my first influential style, because of the solid crisp edges which creates a simplicity of art. In a way, Pop Art is associated with advertising, because it uses everyday objects as a subject.
If there were adjectives to describe me for design I would consider myself as, clean, symmetrical, easy, simple, and technical. These are some of the things I consider myself as, for now. It might change depending on other influences, but for now I' am who I' am.

What is design?

Design is important in today’s world, it’s what created basically everything from houses to pipelines. Without design there won’t be litter around, such as packaging, people seriously need to learn to throw garbage the right way, but also no fashion, television, money or anything. Everyone have his or her own opinion about design, there are no rights or wrongs, because it’s based on the person’s perception of design. I really think design is everything from nature to man made regardless, but I still don’t get why art isn’t design, even though there is a distinction between both of them, art and design both crosses the same principles one way or the other, so does that mean design is similar to art, but it can’t be consider art? Everything in life contradicts everything, I wonder why.

Design is consist of a working process; first it needs a client and target marketers to create. Next is to brainstorm and roughs, after this it’s alter the roughs and keep making it better until it’s down to perfection. So, a designer needs to be commissioned to create a design? But, artists also get commissioned too.

I still consider design as art because that’s how I see it back then and even now.