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The Think Different long sleeve felt like a huge level up as a creative. I finished this piece over a year ago and though it’s hardly seen the light of day as a piece of apparel, it helped me answer questions about design and creativity that stunted my work for a while. What makes art design or beauty feel like and communicate something valuable?
This made me focus too much on the end product and I never knew where to start. The thing that allowed me to move forward was constraints. Instead of asking these huge questions and wanting to find the answers right away, I focused on one piece of the puzzle. This framework immediately solved my problems.
Instead of focusing on the end product, I chose to focus on the narrative behind the piece of work. Once I spent the time to focus on the process, research an idea and gather a narrative, the final piece would simply be the byproduct. The content and form had now be given a place through an idea that held value to me, giving value to the final piece.
Applying constraints solved two problems; it allowed me to move forward more effectively with my design, and it gave me the ability to step in a direction towards answering the question of meaning in my work.
Hmu to get the knowledge 🥳
Shouts out to @leabboud for giving me the insight on this method!!
