Start from Scratch - Sometimes the problem you’re trying to solve isn’t the real problem. It often isn’t the right problem. (More of a concern in other types of design perhaps… I mean, there is going to be a show really, isn’t there?) Naiveté helps: assume nothing, see clearly. What is really going on? As when Hewlett-Packard realized they weren’t really in the business of selling printers; the profits were in selling ink cartridges.
Step Back - Stop. Look at the wall you are beating your head against. Can you go round it instead? Over it? Under it? Maybe blow it up?
Sleep on it - Night can bring counsel. Now and then, a problem that you fell asleep pondering will be solved by morning. So take a quiet minute before starting the day to check for new-born ideas. Dreams sometimes lead to something – though you sound like a dork if you admit it out loud.
Can’t Sleep? - Fretting over stalled design can keep you awake, so practice putting work aside at bedtime. A hot bath. Chamomile tea. Resist the idea that a true artist must live a bohemian life of too much booze and too little sleep. Fun, yes, but counter-productive. Monet advised artists to live like the bourgeoisie, with regular hours and excellent French food. He 4.17 did okay work, by the way.
4.17 Oops. It was Flaubert: “Be regular in your daily life like a bourgeois, so that you can be violent and original in your work.” Virginia Woolf also advised dining well, but mainly stressed having a good income and a room of one’s own.
4.17 Oops. It was Flaubert: “Be regular in your daily life like a bourgeois, so that you can be violent and original in your work.” Virginia Woolf also advised dining well, but mainly stressed having a good income and a room of one’s own.
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