Comments on: Shooting off rockets and watching the directions they veer… http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2008/03/shooting-off-rockets-and-watching-the-directions-they-veer.php A blog for graphic designers Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kyle http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2008/03/shooting-off-rockets-and-watching-the-directions-they-veer.php/comment-page-1#comment-5428 Kyle Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:28:48 +0000 http://www.beadesigngroup.com/2008/03/24/shooting-off-rockets-and-watching-the-directions-they-veer/#comment-5428 Paul I'm going to miss your unique perspectives. You're right, if I simply wait for inspiration (that "great idea") to happen, it probably won't. However, if I start working toward it, via drawing or typing or talking it through with someone, something good usually comes of it. This is the reason so many thumbnail sketches were required in design school! I keep learning that again and again . . . Paul I’m going to miss your unique perspectives.

You’re right, if I simply wait for inspiration (that “great idea”) to happen, it probably won’t. However, if I start working toward it, via drawing or typing or talking it through with someone, something good usually comes of it. This is the reason so many thumbnail sketches were required in design school! I keep learning that again and again . . .

]]> By: Bennett http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2008/03/shooting-off-rockets-and-watching-the-directions-they-veer.php/comment-page-1#comment-5427 Bennett Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:03:59 +0000 http://www.beadesigngroup.com/2008/03/24/shooting-off-rockets-and-watching-the-directions-they-veer/#comment-5427 Paul, I think you have really hit on something that helped make Be A Design Group a success in the early stages. We weren't big and we just threw out ideas and thoughts amongst a group of friends. The honesty must have been evident, because we were all getting noticed . . . which snow balled into all kinds of fun things. Then after some time, I think a good deal of us did that Wylie Coyote thing and realized that we had just ran off the edge. The more you thought about creating a great and perfect post, the less likely it was to happen. I think that the apprehension of posting your thoughts in front of such a large audience was a little stifling, and probably hindered more than it helped in the end. Even if many of us became more timid in our writing, I think we all still jump into design projects with all our force. Here's to jumping into things that you don't have a clue as to where they are going. Paul, I think you have really hit on something that helped make Be A Design Group a success in the early stages. We weren’t big and we just threw out ideas and thoughts amongst a group of friends. The honesty must have been evident, because we were all getting noticed . . . which snow balled into all kinds of fun things. Then after some time, I think a good deal of us did that Wylie Coyote thing and realized that we had just ran off the edge. The more you thought about creating a great and perfect post, the less likely it was to happen. I think that the apprehension of posting your thoughts in front of such a large audience was a little stifling, and probably hindered more than it helped in the end.

Even if many of us became more timid in our writing, I think we all still jump into design projects with all our force. Here’s to jumping into things that you don’t have a clue as to where they are going.

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