This past week has been quite busy. Finishing up first year comes with lots of reflection and hard work. On Monday as I was working on a project, my head began aching. That was my cue to close my laptop and enjoy the nice weather outside.
I walked down to Olympic Sculpture park because it is my favorite park to go on long walks. The moment that sparked my imagination was when I decided to pause and just look out at the water. There was a couple of sail boats that looked straight out of a picture book and the seagulls flying across seemed larger than the boats. That made me realize that perspective is everything.
As I walked back home I held on to that thought. I thought about the fact that not everything has to be traditional or realistic in design to make sense or to feel like it fits. This quarter we have the Design Thinking class where we learn all about the design thinking process and storytelling through design. I realized on my way back home how I was using the design thinking process with that one moment where a seagull seemed bigger than a sail boat.
When I got home and got to work I kept that moment in mind and it helped me think outside the box for a few of my projects. On one of the projects I am working on we have to create a six page magazine spread using grids. I was struggling with the grids because it felt like a constraint. When i turned off the grids it gave me a new perspective and I began designing freely. I eventually turned the grids back on and adjusted my design to fit them. But it helped to just turn off that grid perspective and let myself design without feeling that constraint.