Monthly Archives: February 2007
Money is not the only currency
In the society we live in it’s often easy to assume money is the only thing that matters. We all have things we need to pay for and the system in place is financial. Whilst I don”t deny this, I also see the value in other non-money things. I also think these things are possibly far more worth than cold hard cash.
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50% of client work is about interpretation
One of the things with design is that everyone has their own perception of a particular style. Along with actually making designs as a skill set you need to have a bit of the magic 8 ball psychic ability going on. The key is to understand the concepts that are likely to get asked for in a broad sense and use the design consultation to drill down what exactly they are meaning by that term.
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Playlists to design to
Over at 9rules notes there was a recent post about what music do you design to. I have been thinking a lot about my design process as I’ve started to train someone again. A big part of my process involves getting the ‘zone’ using music. I have this odd habit of listening to a type of music depending on my project – actually it seems from that thread I’m not alone in this.
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