THE
CREATIVE MIND by christina longhurst
And you wonder why I haven’t finished that yet? It may seem that my creative mind, which can be referred to as scattered, is disorganized and dysfunctional. However, this is how it works. It has to. As a matter of fact, if I could have my ‘druthers’ I’d construct my time and deadlines so that I could accomplish one thing at a time, somewhat chronologically, and in a timely and orderly fashion. But every designer knows that it doesn’t work this way. In fact, it can’t. A designer must be pulling inspiration and direction
from multiple sources. A healthy amount of overlapping allows for those quick, yet monumental moments in a project or job where I think of that ‘thing’ or ‘element’ that pulls everything together; that “out-of-thebox” thinking where “the box no longer exists” moment, like my professor would say. It gets me excited about the project and the concept and makes the rest of the creative process that much better.