Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for print and new media designers

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.

描述

設計理念可以很有用，但靈感、創意策略和高效的工作習慣才是真正完成工作的關鍵。設計師、教師和作家Curt Cloninger提供了許多策略、工具和實踐方法，讓讀者能夠在任何設計項目中注入大量的創意。Curt的創新文字引用了20世紀法國哲學、中世紀手稿、龐克搖滾海報等插圖，向讀者介紹了他個人的創意工具包。您將學習以下策略：

• 認識並相信自己的創意能力
• 開發評估自己工作的有效方法
• 從過去中獲取靈感
• 以實驗方式使用標準軟件，並找到非標準應用來創造新效果
• 維護個人設計遊樂場
• 使用Brian Eno和Peter Schmidt開發的Oblique Strategies Cards從潛意識中挖掘創意
• 通過“閃電設計”模型解決創意困境

Curt Cloninger是北卡羅來納大學阿什維爾分校多媒體藝術與科學系的藝術家、設計師、作家和教師。他的書《Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground》（New Riders，2002）是關於創意網頁設計解決方案的行業標準。Curt的藝術和設計作品曾在《I.D. Magazine》、《HOW Magazine》、《The New York Times》、《Desktop Magazine》以及從韓國到巴西的數字藝術節上展出。他經常在國際活動上演講，如HOW Design、South by Southwest、Web Design World和FILE。他的海盜信號從lab404.com廣播，以促進活躍的對話。