wake up
i just want to wake up suddenly in my sleep, and know the answer to this lamp (because i am sure there is an answer - or answers). but thats not going to happen, i'm not going to wake up i the morning with some recollection of a midnight epiphany, peer across to my bedside table and see the sketch there.
it shouldnt be that easy anyway.
it shouldnt be that easy anyway.
posted by ben at 5:34 PM
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maybe i just desire greatness without the hard work.
actually screw that, i'm enjoying the process, and if i wasn't - then where would i be?
the wrong place
hmm... I know what you mean but I gotta admit that I sometimes enjoy the process of that sudden enlightment in my head that solves the problem I’ve been thinking for a long time. A sudden answer to the problem I’ve been trying to solve. I guess, in that, the process of thinking about the problem might be the process we need to value.
its pretty arrogant and lazy to think that it will all appear in front of you. perhaps like anything, with more practice we become better at doing something. so after doing more projects we find our own way of doing things and get better at getting more reliable (better) results sooner.
not that i'm impatient, i'm sick of telling myse;f after every idea that this is THE idea.
Even if you (not you but in general) have that amazing talent of coming up with a solution to problem by waking up to it every single time, how far would that take you? Refinement and reworking on the idea, might be the thing that we should cherish. Maybe you don't have to tell yourself that an idea you just had is THE idea but it might be a progression or an extension of the idea that you had earlier. Just a thought...
I don't think it's lazy or arrogant to think it will appear in front of you. I used to. But not any7 more. I've had too many dreams where I will step by step solve something I've been busting a gut trying to figure out...Solidworks... interviews...aesthetics... all sorts of design dilemmas. But then often the dreams come too late, so i know I can't always hold out for them.
so you're boht saying that the idea or epiphany is just the starting of an idea rather than the end of one? i guess thats right. but some epiphanies are crap as well. sometimes you think something is a great idea until someone knocks you down, you step away and realise - actually that had some merit but generally was pretty shite.
is there a reason why epiphanies shouldtnt be a part of the desing process - i dont think so.
i wonder how much fo the droog of front deisgn is epiphanised. or even marcel wanders?
coming up with an idea or having an epiphany,I think(and I agree with you), are valid parts of design process. As I said I think it's a progression. In my opinion, not every design has to be rationalised to a full extend.
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