how do you balance speed and creativity?

[olcvisual]

Although I'm taking drawing and noncomputer design classes to improve conceptualization skills I'll never find the perfect balance between speed and creativity because my creative process is very slow. Writing, my original background, is a good example. I'm currently a better writer than designer. Yet my writing is painfully slow -- I'm still working on poems and stories that began in the mid '90s. My workplace writing is significantly faster but not nearly as satisfying.

[Holliday]

you've heard the old saying 'pick your battles carefully'? It applies here. Time, as you are coming to find out, isn't infinate. You have to decide what projects you want to put a lot of time on and what projects only get your minimal attention. Once that's done the rest is easy.

[plantationfarmer]

i have 3 junk box full of mags, books, toys, mechanical parts., bla, bla, bla...
it helps me when my brain slows down.


its exciting time here at gdf. wonder woman was here!

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[Magnus]

I just do what I can with the time given. I mean, there is always at least one person to bounce more ideas off of right?

"The function of a warrior is to eliminate an exterior enemy presence. A warrior is an antitoxin, a protector. The warrior does combat where and when necessary and not otherwise. "


- Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon

[paulrandfan]

I do the same. I have boxes filled with odds and ends. Bits of paper, string...textures. I keep the stuff around, and play with it in my spare time, and then when a project comes up, I already have several ideas. I also keep sketchbooks, and notecards with me at all times, so i can just pick up and go when I have an idea. That's my general mode of operation.



Jessica

'To Design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.' --Paul Rand

[PrintDriver]

Is that why I have all these boxes of junk?

PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[Kool]

What the hell is this spare time you are all speaking of?

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'You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.' H. J. Simpson

[plantationfarmer]

theres this parallel universe...
their selling it on ebay

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:call me:
:trust me: