About the project:
In today’s society, the education system and believes naturally surround the idea of avoiding mistakes as much as possible. With the fear of making mistakes, we certainly chase for what the society deems as “perfection”. Designers are plagued with the same problem. Particularly in design, perfection is extremely difficult to define.
A perfect design to you might not be perfect to another viewer. Regardless what varied definitions there are, all designers chase this perfection, which many don’t even have a clear idea how it should look like. In the chase of perfection, a mistake is never celebrated in any aspects especially in the field of design where the outcome is to make something visually appealing and satisfying. Therefore, designers tend to always work within their little comfort zone and will never step out of the box to try something different so as to avoid making mistakes.
The idea of this project aims to demystify the misconception of mistakes in graphic design as an error that can help in our creative process. It helps to educate and inspire designers to embrace the beauty of accidental mistakes as one of their greatest tool. The idea is to work on a playful concept using the mistakes that other designers discarded. The intention is to embrace mistakes and to demonstrate how mistakes can in turn
become amazing outcomes. This is the first step to stepping out of one’s comfort zone that will in turn aid
the learning process.
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This is one of the first few outcomes after researching about the design issue that I'm working on.
In today’s society, the education system and believes naturally surround the idea of avoiding mistakes as much as possible. With the fear of making mistakes, we certainly chase for what the society deems as “perfection”. Designers are plagued with the same problem. Particularly in design, perfection is extremely difficult to define.
A perfect design to you might not be perfect to another viewer. Regardless what varied definitions there are, all designers chase this perfection, which many don’t even have a clear idea how it should look like. In the chase of perfection, a mistake is never celebrated in any aspects especially in the field of design where the outcome is to make something visually appealing and satisfying. Therefore, designers tend to always work within their little comfort zone and will never step out of the box to try something different so as to avoid making mistakes.
The idea of this project aims to demystify the misconception of mistakes in graphic design as an error that can help in our creative process. It helps to educate and inspire designers to embrace the beauty of accidental mistakes as one of their greatest tool. The idea is to work on a playful concept using the mistakes that other designers discarded. The intention is to embrace mistakes and to demonstrate how mistakes can in turn
become amazing outcomes. This is the first step to stepping out of one’s comfort zone that will in turn aid
the learning process.
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This is one of the first few outcomes after researching about the design issue that I'm working on.
3 series of experimental booklets about the design issue so as to allow audiences
to have a better understanding of my topic.
to have a better understanding of my topic.
Booklet 1 – Problem of the proposed issue
Booklet 2 – Effect and importance of the issue
Booklet 3 – The response from different designers
90% of the layout in Booklet 1 & 2 was being printed out with the method of image transfer.
The book were designed in an unintentional way by collecting mistakes/scrap papers
from different designers in their design process.
90% of the layout in Booklet 1 & 2 was being printed out with the method of image transfer.
The book were designed in an unintentional way by collecting mistakes/scrap papers
from different designers in their design process.
Booklet 1
Booklet 2
Booklet 3
