Here are more visual additions to the production. The project is going very well, with changes along the way. The weeks are flying by, and I’m having a blast seeing the various components of the production take shape and coalesce. Yes, we’ve chosen parts and discarded others, but so far, I feel as though this has been a true collaboration, and I venture to admit that it might also be one of the closest educational experiences that align with the real world. Those last minute changes and seemingly endless revisions that are going on in our class right now mimics the process within the illustration industry. The process that I undergo with my own client-based work, sometimes. For better or worse, ideas grow into better ideas via collaboration, but sometimes the good ones get cut and thrown onto the floor for whatever reason.
This happens, but as long as we remember that it’s our work that is being critiqued and revised, not us as individuals, then it will help us to maintain some distance from our work so that we can improve upon them later on.
We’ve all got egos, we wouldn’t be artists, designers, or illustrators if we didn’t have them; however at the same time, those moments occur when we have to check out egos at the door in order to push ourselves further into places within our own artistic practice that make our work “better.”
Conceptually better.
Aesthetically better.
Technically better.
When I used that word “better” it’s in reference to how close our work comes to resolving those creative obstacles in the most appropriate and aesthetically intriguing ways. It takes time, but this can only happen if we’re open to discussing our work at hand. In any event, we’re trying to make this production as tight and impressive as possible, but still remain within time and budgetary restrictions. Thanks so much for everyone’s enthusiasm and flexibility. We’re not even halfway through the semester, but so far, I believe we’re maintaining good momentum within our process. If you haven’t already done so, check out the previous post of your work being assembled with your classmates. I think it’s very cool.
Think Y-3; Yohji Yamamoto for Adidas; they work well separately, but together they’re even more bad-ass.
