There are times when a design concept of mine fails to boil over in awesomeness and at that point I throw a sheet over it, shove it in a corner next to the mutated Chihuahua-Goat™ and ask myself why I even attempted it.
It happens so often, in fact, that I begin to doubt my instincts as a designer. It boggles the mind that a Designers Anonymous group doesn’t exist for this very reason, but I digress.
This way of thinking is ludicrous because everything we create is vital to the design process, no matter the context.
For example: That movie poster that you spent several hours on, the one that was eventually canned because the hero’s (or heroin’s) face ended up being badly contorted at a specific viewing angle would probably seem like a failed creation. You might even be tempted to trash it from your hard drive, never to speak of it again.
But guess what? Horribly mangled facial crufties aside, you might end up recycling the typeface or that speckled texture for a future poster or project.
Make it a habit, if you haven’t already, to file away your delightful creations for future use and avoid cursing your design work with voodoo.
It just never works, I mean what am I supposed to do with this Chihuahua-Goat™?
Just remember the three R’s: Redeem, Reuse and Rejoice.
