Friday, June 29, 2018


design is a creative exercise 

The Birth of Design as a professional and ‘modern’ domain of perusal (! ;)) has had many definitions by ‘virtue’ of the freedom and method with which professionals pursued it (few in isolation and others on the hard ground) 
 It’s about making it beautiful, while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as said …… pre ‘modern design' (a historical shift) makers made things beautiful and functional with mind and heart, an intrinsic outcome. Often, logical process is confused as design (eg: UI, etc), ….romantic (some read as irrational) is where design thought germinates and fruits in the rational hard ground. 
In the process of designing, the time to take the creative leap is like the event horizon ‘slip’ ….which is personal and intuitive (outcome of what was incubating in the mind and a heart to go for it). 
Design teaching is not easy …. every student has a concept or idea which needs to be coursed through without your influence yet in a path of intent which is discovered as a “yes moment” by the ‘pupil’ and you have still to be informed enough yourself to direct considering if it’s the right course!! Every student has a pace of design learning and discovery; we need to give them the time….in design pedagogy.
Kumar Vyas, the design Guru at NID, would always react to your design as “maybe...I don't know”!! and smile.