Arteliance

Polishing this pendant today I realized I’d been wearing it for nearly 20 years. Unfortunately, I’ve lost the artist’s name.

Here is a list of some of the ideas from yesterday:

• Work Environment and things that are used (concrete):

  • working - coffee cup, paper and mouse
  • computer picture
  • art tools: paper, pencil jar etc
  • print background: press sheets, loupe, pantone swatches (experience), spec-ing type
  • photographic equipment and tools (seeing and capturing) -> light?
  • typography: metal, letterpress etc
  • tools = eyes, brains, ears
  • artsy collage type thing
  • symbols and plans, wayfinding, signage, organization, clarity, blueprints
  • Type overlays photos etc (multi-layered, messy)
  • textures

• Design is (ways to define it - abstract):

  • multiple A’s (typography, many ways of presenting things, thinking about them)
  • different ways of seeing: glasses, microscopes, telescope, magnifying glass, digital, analog, insight, big picture/little picture (fractal?)
  • targets, goals, strategies, aim
  • connection (of minds); communication, transmission of ideas
  • concepts: diagrams, graphs, maps, drilling down to the heart of the matter
  • more on diagrams, abstracts, visual representation of non-create things like ideas
  • gears/machinery: design as a cog in overall business plan

• What design does (movement, emotional):

  • patterns: morphing, transformation, nothing to something, sketch to final?
  • simplicity, road, journey, prairie ref sinclair
  • life, energy, mark making, scribbles forming an image (how I draw)
  • urban sketches/story-telling (design is story-telling)
  • perspective, urban, architecture, escher, surprising
  • focus (broad to narrow)

Most designs can, IMHO, be broken down into these 3 aspects. Good designs incorporate all 3.