Hi all,
Let’s have a discussion of your daily work. Are there any repetitive routine work which blocks your from focusing on creative work?
Taking surveys.
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Survey won’t open for me.
Daily routine blocks.
If I don’t feel like doing anything I won’t.
When I do feel like doing something I do it.
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Depends on your job description.
The thing that most prevents me from doing any work is people interrupting my day when I don’t want them to. I don’t care if I interrupt my day. But other people? Not so much.
Graphic Design is a business. Maybe 35% is design. The rest is all overhead.
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It’s all part of dong business. Otherwise we’re just mere keyboard monkeys.
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Much of my work has focused on publication design — newspapers, magazines, and various kinds of repeating publications.
Let’s take a magazine, for example. Designing it from scratch is all kinds of fun. The first issue is exciting. The second issue is even better because it provides the opportunity to implement what’s been learned from the first. The third issue is always great because most of the kinks have been worked out, and the practice from the two preceding issues makes the third issue really shine.
After the third issue, the fourth is a matter of fine-tuning, which is less fun. The fifth issue starts turning into a rehash of what’s locked into place. The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and ad infinitum issues begin to turn into a creative desert.
There’s self-imposed pressure to make each issue better than the preceding issues, but the best ideas have already been used, the design is locked into place, the overall look, feel, and personality of the publication is established, and the room for innovation and creativity erodes into a boring and frustrating routine that repeats itself over and over with each issue.
I’ve noticed the same thing happening with recording artists and television series writers. After the third go-round of making an album or a season, the spark of newness is gone. The original ideas are used up, and the efforts to improve and do something innovative with what’s there stall and turn a bit stale.
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Hi all, sorry about the inconvenience. The permission is corrected now.
Indeed, tedious routine undertakings can now and then impede center around innovative work.
Overseeing messages, planning, and administrative work can occupy time and mental energy.