Creative Anarchy Article

Creative Anarchy

Basically creative anarchy is learning when, and when not to break/bend the rules. The main point of this article was in order to bend or break the rules you have to know what they are. This reminds me of my english teacher who always justifys an authors reason to breaking grammar rules because they know how to use them perfectly and the broken rule they used adds affect to their writing. However the reason we cannot break the rules is because we do not know how to use them perfectly. we are simply just learning them. This just adds to the fact that we as graphic design students cannot break the rules whenever we want them because we don't even know whether are rules or not.

Without the rules how are we supposed to satisfy the very old fashioned clients that want a classic design with nothing exotic or inventive because it isn't needed to fit into the environment it will be put into. A great design is supposed to fit in with it's surroundings. For example if you go to a rock concert you don't see a poster for another band with unicorn and rainbows and bright colors. That is just silly no one will look at it and read the information on this poster. They will look at it and laugh because of how absurd it is for it's environment.

We are taught as students the technical part of the design. No one can teach you how to design something. A design includes your voice, your, ideas, and what you have experienced.Thats why creative anarchy is so difficult because you have to take your very own individual experience to change ideas make them new and exciting. Creative anarchy is also contraversial because design has so much to do with opinion that there has to be some rules and when you try to bend and break the only rules in design it opens a whole new window for people to criticize. Thats why my favorite quote is "never declare it complete until you satisfy the creative anarchist in you".

- Abbygail <3

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