I’ve started blogging again! I’ve got it all figured out this time. I think this is my dozenth crack at blogging, but I finally have a true reason need and excuse for setting up a blog. Process! Three years and change later the practice of maintaining process drilled into me as a freshman has finally sunken in.
Although I came to this through a different realization. “Process work” was taught to me in theory, not in practice, and our applied methods were really ineffective. We made process books, process posters, and the most common: process piles of crap. All the work I’ve done up until now—just gathered into a heap. Professors looked upon in shame, but no one can deny it’s my favorite method.
Why? It’s easy! Look past the blatant issues of presenting a pile of napkin sketches, and you see the great things about this method. I’m being honest, this is the true process. More importantly, I’m obviously focusing my time on the work and less on prettying up my process in some presentation format.
It’s difficult to look back over the pile of stuff and make something elegant out of it. Very few I know of maintain something elegant throughout the duration of a project. It’s just too much work when I really want to work on getting my real work done. My biggest complaint is “why?” Who is the audience? Is this just for me or is this to show off in the job/client seeking process? A process book’s audience is only those who can see it: myself and the few people I can physically hand it to.
Enter the internet. If the presentation were taken care of, then the only step left is making the pile. My audience now grows orders of magnitude (even though I know process is still all about understanding my own work). The upkeep of this blog will force me to solve one of my biggest issues when approaching design work: visual process. The content here will be informal, but heavily graphical. Images, videos, and stories that suffice to show a present state of what I’m doing.
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