Essay on Design inspiration and design performance
Nowadays the role of design could not be underestimated, thus the work of designers is evident in all life spheres, such as graphic design, fashion design, packing design and so on. There are hardly doubts that our daily life is inundated with designs. Designers are the people whose main task is to involve all their knowledge along with ingenuity for creating unique and versatile designs. Along with development of various technologies, increase of level of lives, social standards, people pay more attention to the ways different things look like; and the designer’s profession is becoming more and more popular. This is the reason, why virtual currency is emerging. The design of this currency is made especially for designers. It was issued by an imaginary bank, which is called “Bank of Design”, belonging to the imaginary world called “Creative World”.
Inspiration is one of the key parts in design process, being at the same time the most important thing to designers. In the design process “finding inspiration is generally an important early step” (Dazkir et al. 2). However, “gathering sources of inspiration costs time and money” (Eckert 1) and sometimes it is extremely hard to generate a really good idea. The decline of inspiration is the worst situation for any designer. For a designer, the absence of the ideas is a disastrous situation. According to Eckert and Stacy’s article, sources of inspiration are very important to designers because they “play a number of important roles in design thinking, as definitions of context, triggers for idea generation, and as anchors for structuring designers’ mental representations of designs” (525). Thus, this virtual currency is designed for trading inspirations. When designers have no ideas, they can use this currency to get inspirations. The creation of this currency would for sure be a kind of good news for the designers.
The design of the bill was made up with the help of Photoshop. The background is created by Gradient Tool and “Blur” in Filter. A figure which represents the value of the currency is placed above the layer of background. The figure on the front of the currency is holding a digital tablet and looks like drawing something on it. According to the survey that Samrtpress.com conducted on some graphic designers, the results prove that one of graphic designers’ favorite tool is Wacom tablet. Therefore, digital tablet can be seen as a symbol of designer. The survey mentioned above also shows that Adobe creative suite is an essential part of graphic designers. On the back of the currency there is a figure viewed from behind. This image presents a combination of a real photograph and Photoshop. The figure is drawing. The brush markers “draw” made by the figure, are actually created by the brush tool in Photoshop. This is what designers always do. Then, in order to let the figure and background merge harmoniously, the figure’s saturation was adjusted. The bottom of the figure was made transparent via using “Feather” effect. There is a layer of black twill on the top and it makes the figure and background seem as a whole.
After that, the whole image was placed into Illustrator. It is mainly used for designing of the Guilloché pattern and placing of the texts in Illustrator. Guilloché is an important part of currency. According to Wikipedia, these patterns are always used nowadays as security seals with the aim to “protect against forged copies”. The design of this currency applies different Guilloché patterns. Firstly, in the background of both of the two sides, there are some random patterns with light colors. These patterns are parts of a big Guilloché. In Eckert’s article, he indicated that “Designers look for repeat patterns, ornaments, and motifs” and patterns are always provide source of inspiration to designers (4). Thus, these patterns in background are not only for decoration, but also serve for representing of the inspiration. At the same time they could be viewed as creative juices. The lines are flowing just like the human thoughts. Secondly, there is a big pattern on the obverse side. The denomination of this bill was placed on the top of this pattern because this pattern is the most outstanding one. Next, on the right of the reverse side there also a Guilloché pattern. This one is smaller than the pervious one and is not as complex as the one on the obverse side. Finally, a small Guilloché pattern appeared on both the front and back sides. These two patterns are also used as a foil to the denomination.
The layouts of texts also play an important role for the currency. In addition to the denomination, this currency also includes some other items and all of them are necessary. Due to the fact that this is a fictional currency, the meaning, it conveys, should be clear. There two “Ten Inspirations” on the front of the currency, one is on the top left side, another – is on the right side. “Ten Inspirations” shows what the bill symbolizes. “Bank of Design” is the name of the bank and “Creative World” is the place, where the bill was issued; both of these two items could be seen on the left. The signature of the creator is inside the semi-circle on the left and a serial number appears in the lower right corner. There are the same texts on the back side but their layout differs.
Color is another important element in the design of currency, application of harmony colors in a design will “convey a sense of unity and stability” (Martinson and Waldron 211). This virtual currency will use different colors in different denominations and this would simplify the process of distinguishing between them for people. Each denomination uses some limited palette. For example, the “ten inspiration” mainly uses purple and pink tones. The texts and patterns also use the same tone colors. All these elements show the consistency in design.
Designer is a great career, the designer’s work involves creating of beauty and they also design some useful things, which bring great conveniences to our life. Creativity is crucial for their successful work and certainly there is a strong need in the source of inspiration, which “plays an important role in the design process, in increasing creativity” (Mete 278). Although this virtual currency is not real, it still has the chance to have positive impact upon formation of the new ideas, which are so vitally important for any designer.
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