Book description
Design philosophies can be useful, but inspiration, creative
strategies, and efficient work habits are what really get the job
done. Designer, instructor, and author Curt Cloninger provides a
multitude of strategies, tools, and practices that readers can use
to inject a big dose of creativity into just about any design
project. With illustrations drawn from 20th-century French
philosophy, medieval manuscripts, punkrock posters, and more,
Curt’s innovative text introduces readers to his personal
toolkit for hot-wiring the creative process. You’ll learn
strategies to:
• Recognize and believe in your creative powers
• Develop effective methods for evaluating your own
work
• Draw inspiration from the past
• Use standard software in experimental ways, and find
nonstandard applications to create new effects
• Maintain a personal design playground
• Mine your subconscious with the Oblique Strategies Cards,
developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
• Un-stick your imagination by “blitz-designing”
mock-ups
Curt Cloninger is an artist, designer, author, and instructor in
Multimedia Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina
at Asheville. His book Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy
from the Underground (New Riders, 2002) is an industry
standard on creative Web design solutions. Curt’s art and
design work has been featured in I.D. Magazine, HOW
Magazine, The New York Times, Desktop Magazine,
and at digital arts festivals from Korea to Brazil. He regularly
speaks at international events such as HOW Design, South by
Southwest, Web Design World, and FILE. His pirate signal broadcasts
from lab404.com to facilitate lively dialog.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. A Process Primer
- 2. Basic Creative Wisdom
- 3. Four Ways to Bypass Inertia
- 4. Mining Art and Design History
- 5. Varying Degrees of Derivation
- 6. How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Edit
- 7. Software and Systems
- 8. Maintaining a Personal Design Playground
- 9. The Five Realms of Design
- 10. Balance Forms and Reconcile Paradigms
- Conclusion: Tag. You’re It.
- Exercises
- Selected Resources
- Figure Credits
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2006
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 0321350243
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