From the desk of Artistic Amanda…

When I’m feeling the need to be inspired, the internet usually serves as my one-stop shop. I browse images or sift through portfolios of other designers. Today, I steered more toward written word inspiration.

The Business Times out of the UK, posted an article online about Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom. I found it fairly long, but made time to read it through because of one quote that caught my eye at the very end:

“Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximize trial and error — by mastering the error part.“

This struck a chord with me. Trial and error has been my education in design and business. Often times failure has a bad connotation because we feel embarrassed, disappointed, sometimes hurt. It is up to us to turn that around and fail with pride, fast and cleanly. Value a failed project or proposal for the lesson learned and strive for greatness with your next attempt.

Perfection.

Or as close to it as we can hope to come as commercial artists, occurs when we create a piece that makes the client happy, effectively promotes their message and remains true to our artistic ideals.

Perfection cannot happen every time.

But, every time we design a logo, website or annual report, create an illustration or take a photograph we must AIM for it.

Otherwise, we are status quo and our creative instincts will die of boredom. -Jim Krause

Excite + Experience + Enjoy + Expand