Design as Play

A state of play is a headspace we start to unlearn as adults, and I truly believe it is detrimental to our growth as individuals. Rigid though is the best way to fail as a designer, or in any creative field. And I find that I am doing my best work when I approach design with curiosity, excitement, and freedom. However these are all feelings that are incredibly hard to contrive on-the-spot. So I find that I have to practice at being in that mindset.

Everything you see below is something I have made for fun, as a design warm up, as I practice new skills, or something I have done to shake the cobwebs loose when I have a creative block. The only focus is to make something cool, that feels liberating.

 

DENALI

Not sure what this is- maybe I’ll listen to my weird friend from high school and make these NFT’s 🤷

 

Skulls!

Messing around with gradient maps, texture, and some unused territory in photoshop!

 

Ain’t That The Truth!?

 

Collages

 

Color Blocks Transformation

Having fun with color

 

FREE

 

Re-Did Some Album Art

 

DUMMY!