As an eternal procrastinator myself, I’m interested in personal projects which inspire and manage creativity. I’ve found that setting yourself small, achievable goals each day is a great way to get the ball rolling, so was happy to find that such a project has helped Marius Roosendaal create some wonderful imagery.
His ‘Make Something Creative Every Day’ project (‘MSCED’ for short), sees him force himself to create something new every day of 2011. Although essentially each being a one-day project, you wouldn’t know by the look of the work he’s done so far. You can keep up to date with his progress on his MSCED blog. He tells us more below.
I pretty much design exclusively by electronic means. Although, I sometimes sketch. Unfortunately, this usually ends up as an incoherent scrabble, and I think, “why not just start making the thing?”
I probably lack the patience for it somehow, or the drawing skills. So, my toolkit basically consists of a computer, a Wacom, and some jazz, usually. Either way, I like to experiment. Just to try a bunch of things, be it with shape, color or type … and ask myself questions like, “what would happen if I cut this up and randomly rearrange and transform this piece of work?”
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This mostly goes for personal work, like the ‘MSCED’ thing. For clients, I tend to be more straight forward. How would they feel if I’d cut up their corporate identity and invert everything? Whatever the case, I usually have some sort of idea in mind, go through a few books if I’m looking for inspiration, or just plainly copy something from someone else. Ultimately, I like to end up with something clean, energetic and often with some modernistic twist to it.
© Marius Roosendaal, 2011.
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