November 22, 2014
Portland P
I love the Philadelphia P and Pittsburgh P t-shirts Andrew Harrington created, and I decided to take a crack at designing a Portland P t-shirt. While the shape of Oregon doesn't create as nice of a negative space effect as does that of Pennsylvania, I like it.
November 16, 2014
Signed, Nick
I am learning that the process is often just as important as the product.
It would be easy for me to dismiss this rationale, this crippling fixation on the end product, as childhood folly. Yet here I am, some twenty-odd years later, still struggling to start or finish projects out of fear that what I produce won't be perfect. Take urban sketching, for instance. I want—and, for some inexplicable reason, expect—to be able to sit down and produce something perfect on my first attempt. Needless to say, it doesn't work like that.
This blog represents a step forward. This blog is just as much about the process as it is about the product. This blog, Signed, Nick, is a collection of the thoughts and things I'm willing to put my name on, whether perfect or not.
This is not a concept I grasped back in the first grade, when the only thing wrong with my schoolwork was that I wouldn't turn it in when it didn't meet my unreasonably high expectations. Simply put, if it wasn't perfect, I didn't want my name on it.
It would be easy for me to dismiss this rationale, this crippling fixation on the end product, as childhood folly. Yet here I am, some twenty-odd years later, still struggling to start or finish projects out of fear that what I produce won't be perfect. Take urban sketching, for instance. I want—and, for some inexplicable reason, expect—to be able to sit down and produce something perfect on my first attempt. Needless to say, it doesn't work like that.
This blog represents a step forward. This blog is just as much about the process as it is about the product. This blog, Signed, Nick, is a collection of the thoughts and things I'm willing to put my name on, whether perfect or not.