Comments on: Accidental design, flawed to success

By: Jon Gifford

Jon Gifford — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:27:12 +0000

Gotta love these necroposts. Think this owes a lot to the second-gen Stussy stuff. I believe sometimes when we’re tired or otherwise at our limit, we tap a different part of our subconscious. Personal experience dictates that some if that “brainspace” is inhabited by things we’ve absorbed – not deliberately, mind you. Still like the shirt. Who needs another statement tee? Blah.

By: Caramella

Caramella — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:08:42 +0000

Late to the game, but what I first saw was the way that the zip bisected the “S”, creating a “$”. Probably still appropriate!

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By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:32 +0000

I don’t know, Daniel, but it’s a good quote.

By: Daniel Whyte

Daniel Whyte — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:41:07 +0000

Who was it that said, Creativity is making mistakes, Design is choosing which ones to keep

By: Matt Fouty

Matt Fouty — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:22:22 +0000

Did this come before “Stussy”? If not, I find it almost “copycatish”.

By: Tjeerd van Sas

Tjeerd van Sas — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:02:37 +0000

I’ve never spotted that before! Thanks for showing it!

This inspires me to mess around with handwritten/type or type/type combo’s. (Going to experiment a lot the upcoming months.)

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:44:55 +0000

Ah, confidence, Ken. It’s as importance for us designers as it is a striker in front of goal. If you don’t like your work, how can you expect the client to?

Jeremy, Al, thanks for dropping in. I hope everyone enjoys the weekend (just winding down with a Guinness).

By: Al

Al — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:44:18 +0000

I LOVE mistakes and accidents. Thing with our disease is that to get something spot on you have to really work out all the intricacies and often labour over something, which for me leads to hating the final design because I become overly familiar with it. Accidents are great as you can look at the design and to some extent enjoy it more as though a nice piece of work by someone else, you can enjoy the fact that the design kinda took over in way.

Well, that’s what I think anyway.

T-shirts are my life!! Walking canvasses.

By: Ken Reynolds

Ken Reynolds — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:10:22 +0000

The accidental and unexpected flashes of inspiration and experimentation can reap the best results, the most difficult part is to have confidence in your instincts.
You have to carry on with the design and present it knowing you have no thought processes to back it up or justify it to a client. That’s the scary bit!
It’s all worth it when a client loves it and asks: “How did you come up with that?” Then you get to act all mysterious and just a little smug!