Some times I forget the whole reason we started this blog was to tell people about Brightside and what we have been up to, prints were doing, stuff we are selling, and all that fun stuff. So I thought I would take a min and talk about something Brightside-ish, and that is DESIGNING!! A very important part about what we do if you didnt know! So I guess this is for the one follower out of the two we have that is somewhat interested in our actual Brightside doings (i know the only reason you read this is because of the crazy things we come up with and you didnt think it was possible for one person (me) to be that sarcastic in one blog post) So here it goes:
It just came to me last week as I was working on a custom print for our cousin to give her dad for fathers day, we talked about what type of design would suit him best, and the things he is interested in and how we were going to take all of that and shove it into a nice simple design, sounds tough right? Well maybe you werent thinking it sounded tough, but maybe you were thinking "How are you even going about starting to do that?" and the honest answer is I have no flippin idea. All I know is when we were talking, I started going through all of the stuff in my head and taking out all the pieces i could use for this particular design. I know that sounds like crazy talk, but I have so many patterns and shapes and randomness in my head that while im about to start a new design i "flip" through them all take out the ones that will help me. I know again with the crazy talk.
When I actually sit down with a pad of paper and a pen (or marker, or pencil) I just start sketching a very rough sketch of what I came up with in my head, and to tell you the truth it looks like crap it is a VERY ROUGH sketch, I would be so embarassed if anyone got a glimpse of one of my rough sketches again ROUGH is the term that most identifies these sketches. Anyways, its just so interesting how I take this ROUGH sketch and transform it to be a (in my opinion) a good lookin design. I usually will take something like a simple line and place it easily in 15+ differnet places and either my brain will say "YES!! That is the perfect place for that lovely line" Or sometimes "NOOOO way, that line is not going to go anywhere on this design" So I guess im writing about this just because im so intrigued with the idea of taking all of this randomness from my head and compiling them into a design. This is just something I have been thinking about while designing, and I wonder if there are others that process the same way. It is all just so.... interesting to say the least.
Floating in head---> paper---> computer--> printing screen--> t-shirt/textile---> the feeling of no longer worrying about whether or not people will like it (its a big leap, I know)
Im on a Avett Brothers kick lately if you haven't noticed, and their songs just always seem to match my head ramblings.
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