Designer's Diary: Thank God There's Deadline!

Whoever you are, a graphic designer, writer, music arranger or other creative fields, must have experienced moments where it seems your work will never finish. You discover a new color combinations which therefore requires changes in the composition itself. These changes require adjustments to some elements and tone, rhythm and more. What then, when you wake up from a nap, you might get new inspiration from somewhere ( maybe from this blog ;P ). Tadaa! Finally you feel have made a mistake and must do the design from scratch.

There are considerations of innovation, there is a differentiation of materials, human resources, motivation, technology, problem-structure which makes ignorance about how full we feel has been considered a problem, developing design solutions just seem like a mashing atomic activity. There is always a smaller part, which is interrelated with other parts in the constellation of multidisciplinary. Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Theology, and so forth.

And you know what? Same thing as an end to this complicated process as quickly as possible, or browse the collision as far as possible, no one can guarantee that a design solution is better. I once worked on a project that is long enough (one year), where even at the end of the project I didn'tt feel that the design solutions that I have done is the most 'optimal' in responding to problems.

No matter how fast or slow the design process you are doing, will always be there one moment where the design solution (which even collectively has been recognized as something that is 'optimal') is actually just the optimal solution within the process. Not in another time nor other projects.

Thank god for deadlines

Through this situation I learned some things. How a deadline-conscious or not, through instruction or self-intiated is never mean 'only' a deadline. This is a requirement of any design process. One that makes a process to provide time to improvise and play (with the termination of the process), two things that make an important contribution in the development process. I can understand that at this point design is an art, not just a mere science. I can also understand that, basically, we all need a deadline, and how the existence of these things is as important as the process itself.