When designing anything, it is crucial to be a unique you. Being
an individual in the design world is how one can be successful. Marian Bantjes
received such an immense amount of success because she created designs that
brought joy, wonder, curiosity, and most importantly, inspiration. Her unique
method of creating type out of such a common household item such as sugar is
just one example about what makes her so unique and attention grabbing.
Watching
Bantjes’ TedTalk can aid my design development because I can learn a lot from
her approach to design. Her main goal is for others to look at her work and get
inspired. That has always been one of my goals for every artistic medium I have
used. To inspire others the way others have inspired me is the simultaneous
stimulation that all designers should strive for. Something I found extremely
inspiration was the lettering she did for shop windows. In her sketches there
was the phrase “Bountiful Lashes” and the design for the words was free flowing
and hand drawn. But what made it so inspirationally intriguing was the way she
added the look of bountiful lashes to the ends of the words. That kind of
creativity and thought process is so intriguing to me, and it seems so simple,
yet it is so wildly creative.
Methods I
can use to make my creativity flourish are watch videos like Bantjes’ TedTalk,
as well as other videos that get my mind artistically working. To find
inspiration I usually go on websites like Pinterest, Tumblr, Behance, Fiverr,
Flickr, and any other artistic related websites. Those always help me as far as
looking at other’s beautiful work and then taking a something from each work
and making my own unique composition. I can provoke unique thoughts by thinking
about some key points Marian touched upon like her public fine arts sphere, her
personal ego feeding approach to her work that also greatly benefits the
client, and words and images working together as a powerful force.
Thus far
in my design courses I have changed a lot. At the beginning of the year I did
not understand the tedious nature of a process book, and I thought that ideas
and execution came simultaneously, because that was always how I had done it.
Now I see the real reasoning behind the process books. It makes designs seem a
lot more approachable and achievable. Not only does it help to organize ideas, but
also it makes the execution process more precise and technically perfect. I hope
to improve in all areas of design. I want to think more like a graphic artist
and make my designs more creative. I want people to look at my designs and
think, “How did she come up with the idea for that?”
