#hairyelefante

[zien-art]

Made a lil label for our anniversary beer @mammothseattle tomorrow night! Thanks to @matchlessbrewing for letting me draw on your cans. 🤘🏼 #hairyelefante #art #beercanlabelart #watercolor #woolymammoth #mammothseattle #citra #mosaic #hops #pnwbeer #localbeer #matchlessbrewing #illustration #design #graphicdesign #benbobzien #zienart

[theturquoisedot]

BLOG POST #2 - LET’S GET REAL - My Inspirations & Getting to know the topic more.

Emphasis is on POWER OF VISUALIZATION, how designers’ reflex of breaking down elements around them gives them a new understanding of things around them. Things around us - can be objects, can be thoughts , lets be honest, basically any scenario  - as a designer, you sign up to learn things that you won’t learn on your own to help people people who are associated with those same things much longer than you. We are problem solvers. This sixth sense - “visualization”- the ability to visualize a problem, a solution or even a consequence of a design is why people come to designers. This ability of grasping a problem, isolating it, squeezing it until we find the most effective solution gives us a new insight on graphic design, it’s a just another perspective of life, but lets say visually.

I have seen one more subject that use motor skills very close to graphic design, another perspective of life but in textual form -  Philosophy.  A subject driven to find out the problem and it’s solution.

For some reason this makes me think is, my design is my own perspective of life, it’s my own visual philosophy! CRAZY!

But to make this not too fictional, the tone will be close to reality (real world topics like facts, current affairs, problems).

Few topic examples :-

WHAT IS YOUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY?

https://medium.com/@hairyelefante/what-is-your-design-philosophy-a32d43985899

ON DESIGN CHANGING TO THE WORLD

https://uxdesign.cc/on-design-changing-the-world-92ed56b240dc

WHAT’S THE GRAND DESIGN?

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/23/books/what-s-the-grand-design.html

A WORLD WITHOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN

https://connectiongraphics.com/2015/11/what-the-world-would-be-like-without-graphic-design/

KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID (K.I.S.S)

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/kiss-keep-it-simple-stupid-a-design-principle

ON ORDER AND CHAOS

https://medium.com/@sensemakersays/on-order-and-chaos-44fd54bcb4a4

WHAT MAKES GRAPHIC DESIGN IMPORTANT?

https://thinkchrysalis.com/blog/graphic-design/what-makes-graphic-design-important/

New Philosopher - This comes closest to the tone I am hoping to go for.

ALL CREDITS TO - https://www.newphilosopher.com/

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IN A NUTSHELL - Visually strong, a memorable experience, fictional graphics but real life topics.  

[ebunomoni]

"This must be our new design mantra: There when you need it, invisible when you don’t. It would be much better than what we believe today: There when you need it, incessantly begging you to come back when you don’t" via @hairyelefante https://buff.ly/2VmvC3Y

"This must be our new design mantra: There when you need it, invisible when you don’t. It would be much better than what we believe today: There when you need it, incessantly begging you to come back when you don’t" via @hairyelefante https://buff.ly/2VmvC3Y https://buff.ly/2VmvC3Y

[adidhotre]

Tweeted

“When a company copies another product, they assume that what they’re copying is actually #successful for the #company they’re #emulating, and that original #product was designed to accomplish the same goal.” @hairyelefante https://t.co/xzSXs8wqbn

— Aditya (@adidhotre) January 7, 2019

[joyroxas]

❝

“Design Won't Save the World” by @hairyelefantehttps://t.co/a3B0cABPeX pic.twitter.com/ctYEouLHLR

— Joy Roxas (@joy___r) September 8, 2018

http://twitter.com/joy___r/status/1038482826914668544

[joycebettencourt]

From Twitter: "Somewhere in our industrialized rush, we’ve lost our sense of craftsmanship. To succeed in the future, we’ll need to find it again," writes @hairyelefante https://t.co/ULi8XerWCp— Medium (@Medium) August 17, 2018

http://twitter.com/Medium

[adidhotre]

Tweeted

“How many things are in your own product that don’t quite work, but you just haven’t had the time to #improve or remove? From the outside looking in, someone might assume those things are part of your #product because they’re working.” @hairyelefante https://t.co/xzSXs8wqbn

— Aditya (@adidhotre) January 7, 2019