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Jun 14

What does your art express?

Posted at 10:12 AM on June 14th, 2008 by Alex

This is a sort of appendage to my last post - Design 101.

In a few conversations stemming from that post, I’ve had a couple people ask me what I’m expressing in my designs. I didn’t want to go that specific in the last post, because I didn’t want to impose my expressions on anyone else. Everyone is different, and everyone has a knack for expressing certain things better than others. The important thing is that you are expressing something - anything.

But, it might be helpful for some to get an idea of what some other designers express. So here’s the deal: I’m going to share mine, and then YOU have to post your’s below in the comments

Here’s me:

When I learned the important lesson that good design, like art, HAS to be an expression, I made a pact with myself: NEVER again will I make a design that isn’t an expression of my life. Since then (in varying degrees) all of my designs have been a retelling of my own life through art.

So what are the bullet items in my life that are constantly oozing out into my designs?

Community - we are social creatures.
A love of life; people.
Freedom and Independence to be ME.
The importance of change; dynamism; new experience.
The connectedness of every thing & every idea: holism.
Harmony between everything: in a perfect world, the kind that I want to see and will always work to achieve, NOTHING should suffer at the hands of something/someone else.
On top of these, anything else that is currently on my mind.

Now its your turn: what does your design or your art express? POST A COMMENT BELOW!

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