Believe

Verse 35. Believe

Believe

Believe..

“If you don’t believe in your work who else is going to believe in it?” _Milton Glaser.

Inspirational words from a graphic design icon and one of my favourite designers of all time; designer of the iconic ‘INY’ logo.

The saying applies to whatever work you do be it a designer, an illustrator, an artist, a blogger, musician, photographer, painter, writer, doctor, psychologist, nurse, etc.

If I didn’t believe that my posts could inspire myself and at least one person out there, I wouldn’t be posting at all.

Meanwhile, thank you for finding this post inspiring.

Believe in your work, simples!

Design, Art/Creative direction, Post 
By Philip Abang

 

 

Look Forward

Verse 30. Look Forward

Past

“No matter how much you revisit the past there is nothing new to see”. Robert Tew

In other words, look ahead.

You wouldn’t get to your destination looking at the rear view mirror, or would you?

Design, Art/Creative direction, Post 
By Philip Abang

Creativity 2

Design. Creativity 2

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Creativity is the ability to see things others don’t see; see things from a different perspective. I am paraphrasing from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi‘s thought on creativity.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is renown for the concept of Flow, and the study in the aspects of happiness and creativity.

Creativity comes through the different disciplinary ways of seeing things.

My faulty scanned piece of work has served as an abstract design piece to allow the viewer to associate different meanings to the image.

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world, without it I am not OK… the only unique contribution we will make to this world will be born of creativity. _Brené Brown

Design, Creative/Art direction, Post
By Philip Abang

Learning

Verse 19. Learning

power.,arrow

“Knowledge is power and learning is super power” _ Jim Kwik

I worked previously on a project themed on ‘Learning’. It is common sense that knowledge is power, but knowledge is acquired via learning and discovery.

As a graphic designer, one constantly seeks knowledge in order to solve problems and to bring ideas to life. Designers are visual detectives and visual communicators. When creating work or responding to a clients brief, research is key and in the process more is learned.

The counter or negative space in the letter ‘W’ from the word ‘POWER’ are two inward pointing arrows symbolizing ‘knowledge’ and ‘super power’ you acquire or gain when you learn or discover new things. Take away the ‘P’ and ‘R’ from the word ‘POWER’ and you are left with the word ‘OWE’.

Learning is what you OWE yourself.

Keep learning.

Learning is never too much, rather, it is insufficient.

Design, Creative/Art direction, Post 
By Philip Abang

 

TORA

Design. Tora

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Poster design for a fictional documentary featuring the life of ‘Tora’ the Siberian tiger. This self initiated project is inspired by Tigers in Crisis: Promoting the Plight of Endangered Tigers and the Efforts to Save Them.

Design Process_

Initial design started as a sketch from an image.

Tiger sketch

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Second stage_ Screenprint

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Final poster designed in InDesign.

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Design, Art direction, Post
By Philip Abang
Mock up credit: GraphicBurger