Almost as interesting as creating logos for the MU Convergence Journalism sequence,today's class discussion about designing methods, opened my mind up to reflect on my own methods and how my designs reflect and are effected by my designing process.
Depending on the assignment, I tend to create thumbnails of the design, mainly to figure out how I'd like the layout of the page of spread to be. Unfortunately, I don't do much illustrating, but when I've needed to include graphic elements to the design, I'll turn to paper and pencil before opening up InDesign. Either way, the final product is usually completely different than my original idea, which is a good thing most of the time.
It was great to see how some designers sketches reflect their personalities. The sketches of designers who are incredibly detail oriented and more abstract thinking, tended to be more detailed and neat. And the sketches designers like myself who think of the big picture first and then go back and add details, tended to be very rough and simple.
For my upcoming feature design, I'm going to try to sketch more and reverse my process, at least for the first stage of critiques, and see if my execution is improved.
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