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Am I in a rut?
Posted by PublishingMojo in
10 Oct 2010 — 3:50pm
10 Oct 2010 — 3:50pm
Here's a poster I did for a coffeehouse in college, some decades ago. Completely untrained in typography, I invented my letterforms (and sometimes my spelling) on the fly as I hand-cut the silkscreen stencil.
And here's a logo I made about a month ago for a coffeehouse at my church. The lettering is a hand-drawn (in Illustrator) adaptation of Ed Benguiat's Interlock font.
When I looked at it, I realized that my idea of coffeehouse typography hasn't changed much in the decades since college!
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10 Oct 2010 — 10:06pm
yup.
you're in a rut alright.
:o)
11 Oct 2010 — 1:43am
A rut, or a style of your own you're obviously comfortable with?
(ooh an' I like the Ed Interlock one! (It also shows you calmed down a bit over the years.))
11 Oct 2010 — 4:42am
Good question: What’s the difference between being in a rut and having a personal style?
11 Oct 2010 — 7:52am
It also shows you calmed down a bit over the years.
Or that it's easier to clean up my messy experiments with Illustrator than with a hand-cut stencil.
11 Oct 2010 — 11:02am
From what I see your rut has actually deepened.
11 Oct 2010 — 12:43pm
What’s the difference between being in a rut and having a personal style?
Being in a rut means no steering, you're on autopilot (or rut-pilot). Having a personal style doesn't preclude a lot of steering.
Put another way: if your answer is "I've always done it that way" you're probably in a rut. If your answer is "this is what it needs" you're probably developing your style.
11 Oct 2010 — 2:52pm
Rut, or not, his letters are more informed... therefore more knowledge has been acquired. Hence, all you rut throwers missed the opportunity to compliment him on one facet of his work instead of just blowing him off.
11 Oct 2010 — 8:31pm
I think his letter are less informed - subjugated his creativity. Instead of developing his natural talent he chose a path of least resistance.
Acquired knowledge? You bet! And is rutting straight towards being creatively bankrupt.
Lessons learnt ...by all ;)
Amen.
12 Oct 2010 — 2:36am
Yeah, we've all learnt you must be brilliant Neil.
12 Oct 2010 — 8:13am
Good stuff Nick, keep it real.
12 Oct 2010 — 1:34pm
What’s the difference between being in a rut and having a personal style?
Whether clients are still paying for it.
13 Oct 2010 — 4:02am
For me the newer version seems more evolved and if you never revisit projects then you don't learn from them. You can't always be 100% fresh. The goal should be to produce the right design for the right piece, if that happens to be similar to one done years before, the other day or never before is irrelevant.
I've never put Comic Sans on any pieces I've been in control of and I don't think that just because I haven't done that that doing it now will make me a better designer.