{"id":1209,"date":"2014-04-13T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offthewallcreative.co.uk\/updating\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2014-04-13T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:15:49","slug":"picking-up-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/2014\/04\/13\/picking-up-the-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"picking up the pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

At school in art lessons I was always told to come up with ten variations on a theme, choose my three best ideas, develop several ideas based on those ideas to get a final result, which I then had to work on, oh and to keep a notebook of my all my workings out and which artists I had looked at to get my ideas. I have to admit it was a very lengthy process…<\/p>\n

And when I started on the path of graphic design, I thought that this was what I had to do for every project and like before it was a very lengthy process…<\/p>\n

And so, to my present situation. The other day I was casually browsing the internet and came across a competition #tightbriefs on the Drum twitter feed in response to the new Ryanair advert. Come up with a design that shows “how you would advertise a budget airline” (full article here)<\/a> have your submission in by midnight.<\/p>\n

And here’s what I cam up with in about half an hour.<\/p>\n

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What I learned about this first dabble in the graphic design competition world is that my speed has really picked up. I am under no illusion that I will win, but with this entry I have proved to myself that I can turn around a project in a restricted time frame with no trouble – and this is something I wouldn’t have been able to do three years ago.<\/p>\n

I’m really quite pleased with myself for submitting this for two reasons. One, I have proved to myself that I can turn around a task efficiently when called upon and two, I would never have been able to even submit anything as I did not have the confidence in my abilities to ever hit upload a few years ago. This is all down to gaining that all important design experience.<\/p>\n

Yes, every designer dreams of being able to complete the Sistine Chapel ceiling on a Mac, with idea generation and time to fulfill the task to the best of their capabilities. But what I have learned along the way is that sometimes speed is of the essence and getting something down on paper is often half the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At school in art lessons I was always told to come up with ten variations on a theme, choose my three best ideas, develop several ideas based on those ideas to get a final result, which I then had to work on, oh and to keep a notebook of my all my workings out and which artists I had looked at to get my ideas. I have to admit it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}