Here’s the screen video about me designing the YouTube page, as promised. I had the same situation as last time: I started without any plans or ideas and thought through doing. I think it’s interesting that it’s working; but I also notice that it’s not working as well as just sitting down and thinking.
Yesterday for example I had s short time on a train where I first unpacked my Kindle, but then took some time to really think about a good form for my porn spreads (the most difficult part of my magazine, as it turns out). And I came up with three good ideas! I guess it saved me a lot of time - but I also wondered: If I wouldn’t have done all the design work about the porn spreads at this day, would have been the ideas so good as well? Do I need to think about it unconsciously so that, if the time comes (like it did in the train), the ideas can rise to the surface?
In this context I’m also happy to announce that I’m moving to another shared flat in Weimar on Monday or Tuesday. So now, instead of walking only half a minute to the room in the university where I’m always sitting and designing (it’s called “Arbeitsraum”), I’m gonna walk 7 minutes. That’s a lot for Weimar! I hope to use this time productively to think about the world, my day and of course my current design tasks.