Throughout the course
of this term I have found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the work
set and my abilities to respond enthusiastically to briefs. I have found myself
being torn between the desire to do well in projects and the pursuit of my own
visual interests, which has resulted in a lack of progression in either area
and this is something I really need to address. Whilst fine art may be
something that one can allow themselves to become personally wrapped up in, I
think I am learning that the same cannot be true of ‘graphic design’ as the
route of it tends to lie in problem solving. This term (especially evident with
my SIP and Zero) I have tried to address my own personal problems that I have
with certain areas of the course/methods of learning within my projects and
this is something that I have need to move away from as the subject area
becomes too vague, I am up against problems that I can never solve and the
outcome tends to be too inward looking and never satisfactory as an answer. I don’t
want to end up creating work that completely removes itself from the personal
levels that I often take my work to, as I feel this is integral to much of the
successful work that I do manage to produce, but I do need to take more
objective starting points.
Over the next term I want
to focus on my typographic abilities as I really enjoyed the Type03 project and
appreciate the challenge of actually learning a skill, rather than blundering
my way through a concept project. I also want to give more thought to how I can
incorporate my illustrative interests into my work, and strike a balance
between the kind of work that gives me personal satisfaction, and the things
that are required of being a graphic designer. Whilst I am on a degree course
to try and do well in it, I do need to take time to nurture my own creative
development; it is this and this alone that is of the most importance to me at
the moment as it is my personal love of design that spurs me on to create work
to the highest ability that I can. If I am caught up in the stress of trying to
bend to what is required of set projects I am not sure that I can make work as
interesting and enjoyable as I know I am capable of. I don’t yet know how or if
this is possible, but I intend to try my damned hardest to make it work for me,
as without the satisfaction that I have always taken from my creative practise
I might just give up and become a receptionist.
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