Tuesday, September 21, 2004

I'm not sure that it's possible but I'm getting more and more convinced that I'm gradually losing my creativity, which is pretty scary considering that I'm a design by both education and career. When I think back to my days as a child and while I was first setting out into the world of design I used to be so into the design ideas I had but these days I'm rarely happy with the work I create.

Maybe I'm just becoming jaded as I get older, or possibly that my expectations are just a lot higher than they were when I started out designing but I do find it very disturbing that I'm now rarely in love with the work I do.

I'm still very much in love with design and can still get very excited by the work of designers around me, however my own work failed to light that special fire inside me. It might be that a lot of my work these days is much less exciting than the CD covers and other projects I used to work on. Spending weeks working on a throwaway catalogue isn't by any stretch of the imagination exciting and, sadly, the very tight timescales involved mean that creative design takes second place to getting the job finished on time.

The same concerns about not being able to come up with truly great designs extend to the creation of AntzOnline. Looking round the net I forever see brilliant sites with great design ideas but when it comes to working on the new version 2.0 of the site I'm just left cold. I'm sure that when the new version hits the net people will love it, but I just wish I could say the same.

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