![]() ![]() A meeting does not always have to be a presentation of empirical fact-finding and conclusions. Ultimately, decks have got in the way of a decent chat. I think this also taps into the psychology of creative teams, who tend to want to impress through having low self-esteem, so bias towards coming out of meetings with some sort of sign they’re doing the right thing. If you’re not careful, a deck will build into itself a sense of finality, of conclusion. It’s important to include different thought processes, when coming up with ideas and discussing those ideas with whoever you’re making the ideas for. Structured thinking works sometimes for sure, but not all the time. What goes in, comes out.ĭually, the need for every meeting or check-in to be accompanied by visual aids or some form of deck is really corrosive. You have to be careful what you put in your brain. Mood boarding It’s Nice That articles, following typography accounts on Instagram, etc. The people who don’t make great stuff can usually be found with tiny shovels at the same barren earth everyone else is digging in. I know someone else who refuses to look at anything, ever. I know of someone who only looks at 18th-century art. So as the “pros” you’ve got to dig in different places. And the visual culture most see is predominantly what an algorithm has deemed viable for distribution. So you have both a tools-led public skillset shift combined with a fascination with visual culture. More discussion of cultural signifiers (say, memes). There is more recognition of design and visual signals than ever before. Anyone who applies stickers to an Instagram story is designing. Perhaps the more experience you have, the less you’re able to see."Įveryone is a designer (blah blah blah), they design every day of their lives. Are there even any subcultures left to colonise? Any more rave flyers to mine for inspiration? Any bits of culture left waiting to be recontextualised? (As an example of the drought, as I type this Kanye is back to mood boarding homelessness to get attention for his latest Yeezy drop – a preoccupation of his collaborator Demna.) But the untrained point still pertains. Therefore these individuals tend to approach problems from a different – and less formal – viewpoint, and “new ideas” emerge from that naivety.īut I’m not sure this approach works anymore. I think what he meant was that “vernacular” is untrained design, people who are unaware of the “rules” which trained professionals are taught. He spotted that a few years before vernacular design became the only thing that you saw. Tibor Kalman said there are ideas in high art and low art (vernacular). Actually, it’s quite the opposite in my experience. New ideas are rarely found by a bunch of people who “know what they’re doing”. Too much confidence in the opinions of senior decision makers, and the hierarchies they’re atop of. Too many blogs and social media algorithms that confirm those biases. Too much collective agreement about what “good work” is, what it should look like and how it should behave. your illness can be your strength, but you have to get to know it better than you’ve ever known anything else.Maybe there’s such a thing as too much “good taste”. WORK TIMER TUMBLR HOW TOyou’re a little bit like a kick-ass agent on the bomb squad who knows how to diffuse a bomb, but also when to ask for help and when to run and hide you’re a little bit like a super hero who flies in and saves when everyone else has left. WORK TIMER TUMBLR CODEyou’re a little bit like a great scientist darling - you need to learn your own language, you need to code yourself, observe yourself and learn yourself and then, then you need to fight like hell to save yourself. see you learn to know when things are about to go bad in advance, you learn the signs well before your chest feels like it’s collapsing and you can’t breathe and hurting yourself seems like the only way out, you learn how not to get to that place where the world is already an enemy, already too much and already too heavy - you learn to ask for help while you’re still ok, while you can still help yourself. you learn to predict your mood, based off of little signs, like have you been dreaming and how do you wake up feeling in the morning and what kind of coffee you’ve been drinking and is your playlist on shuffle or are you listening to a single song on repeat, what jeans are you wearing and did you forget your umbrella this morning. You know how the meteorologists can predict shifts in the weather weeks in advance based on a number of small signs that they can connect in a pattern - well you get like that as well - but with your own self. ![]()
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