Well, if doing an "electronic sketch" using MS Paint is not a "design" what is design. I have very good pencil, and pen and ink skills, but little time to do it. So to call what I do, not a design, is a bit silly. If I did the same thing in pencil or rendered using PS or some exotic program, then it's considered design?
True design is the ability to translate an idea to a visual state using the tools and materials at your disposal.
So yeah, I can design with a brick!
TPR
Spinzone Consultant and Post-Ho Reservist.
Posts: 33 | Location: Glamis!!! | Registered: January 06, 2006
TPR, its not that u cant design, its that, as u put it, "True design is the ability to translate an idea to a visual state using the tools and materials at your disposal". and thats exactly where ur going wrong. its like painting a house with a toothbrush and a B&Q sample pot, when its much easier to do it properly with a big fat roller. if u wanna just mess around on Paint for a laugh go for it, but if u want ur work to be taken seriously as "design" u gotta start playing with the big boys' toys and get photoshoppin.
Posts: 65 | Location: i dont know its dark in here | Registered: March 13, 2006
Originally posted by murdoc: TPR, its not that u cant design, its that, as u put it, "True design is the ability to translate an idea to a visual state using the tools and materials at your disposal". and thats exactly where ur going wrong. its like painting a house with a toothbrush and a B&Q sample pot, when its much easier to do it properly with a big fat roller. if u wanna just mess around on Paint for a laugh go for it, but if u want ur work to be taken seriously as "design" u gotta start playing with the big boys' toys and get photoshoppin.
If a toothbrush is all you have at your disposal at the moment, use it! As Shakespeare once remarked to DaVinci (I know, wrong era, jus' keep reading), "It's better to have drawn with a brick than never to have drawn at all."
MK1 Golf all the way!
Posts: 657 | Location: Detroit, MI, US | Registered: August 16, 2005
.. da freakmobile.. anyways, he said it should be "plastic with rubber on the surface".. looks like someone carved a car out of a rock though.. 
Cheers!
