Think Creative

Sitting in a bar one evening, after the college exhibition, discussing with a colleague and friend the idea of setting up a chess club at college as an additional activity. This was triggered from the basis of the new course at the college in games design, leads me to believe that the initial reaction would inspire interest on the notion that it is revolved around computer based game design, and not the more compelling notion, for example, of redesigning the concept of chess. Could that game be made any better. A little discussion brought about the memory of the 3d chess board seen in the Star Trek films, but on the whole there has not been any improvement on that classic game structure for over the past five hundred years. It does draw into consideration, in this debate, what occurs in the minds of designs when such things come about. The motivation for chess was in fact a method to strategies war for generals in combat situations. Understanding the tactics and values of certain div...

*Note: Before I start I would like to point out that in no way am I trying to sell myself as being a great expert at design. I do however, enjoy what I do and pain myself to deliver quality work for my clients. Whom I think would agree on, on such matter. I do use the logo example above as it is the closest to showing what I would like to get across as an argument. Plus, if you can't blow your own trumpet once in a while in the economic crisis then who will. That all said, I am drawing to a close a development on a website, that has basically been going on for nearly two years now. The initial approach was based on the above logo. The lady in question, who has now become a good friend ( and should I say loyal fan ) asked me to do something about her logo. I took one look at it and nearly cried. The sadness grew when the client in question told me that the logo was designed by a graphic artist. She originally asked me to just do something about the pepper character in the centre. ...