When I was in school, a decade ago, our professor made us hand draw type, ink our pictures and create ads with scissors and glue. he said that our limitations with design software will confine and limit our imagination. Just try it and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. The point was, to force us to come up with the absolute best product, then worry about getting it in the machine.
Since that time, we’ve all constantly worked at pulling the computer out of the design. We strive to make our print and web feel like the mission it tries to accomplish and it takes more effort that most people notice. Every once in while we find things on the net that inspire this detox and disconnect, here’s one that I found today with a guy creating a computer interface out of mud. This is pretty extreme, most of our inspiration doesn’t come from mud, but the thought how Tom Gerhardt took the feel of a computer out of his personal project is worth taking a look at.
