A Behind the Scenes Look Into Design & Inspiration
Today’s post is a guest post from our newest graphic designer / artist to the Sandbox PM team. Victoria Weiss is an accomplished artist who will be an amazing addition to our team! In this post, she gives an exclusive behind the scenes look at the creative process of graphic and web design and what happens after the initial consult. For more information on Sandbox PM Graphic Design services please visit www.sandboxpm.com
I like to thank Sandbox PM’s, founder Anastasia Valentine, for inspiring this post today. I'm also charged up on her compliments with my work. I met her at the Selling Your Soul Event, NYC, with Danielle Laporte and Marie Forleo. It’s been a really interesting road getting my design work to this caliber, and all I have to say is like my old cello teacher would say: "practice, practice, practice!" Yes I have contracts, deposit requirements, time deadlines I follow to get any project done. Though today I like to just slow down a bit and share how it all happens. When I meet my prospective client, I usually have an instant intuition how we will work together. Here is where the art starts. It starts with the art of conversation with my clients, I listen, I get clear, I do the research. The research is at times online, or offline and at moments organic. Organic meaning there could be a leaf, a feather that falls from the sky while walking my dog on quick break. It could be the shadow forming from a tree that unconsciously taps the new shape or background to a logo forming abstractedly. It could be a song, or during my yoga practice a solution presents itself for the client or project. It may pop out of my bookshelf once in a while, or a color that day vibrantly talks to me like a game when I'm out and about.
This post about art and web design development also reminds me of visiting NYC recently. I made it to see Alexander McQueens Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was amazing, absolutely gorgeous. It was so natural for me to want to touch the garments. It just astonishes me the amount of dedication, passion I see through the veins and threads on all of the dresses. There was all kind of materials, from wood, to leather. The presentation was theatric, dramatic, and sci-fi in some moments. Choice of classical music, lighting, ambience, and holographic video display of a dress in flight acts as a small movie box for the viewers. The exhibit is still fresh in my mind, and entered my creative soul in quite an interesting way. I plan to incorporate it back into my art, and my writing.
But that is really what it is all about. Owning the experience of inspiration, whether it is from travel, art exhibits, food, scent, and the engagement with nature and family. We just need to take action to get the most of our happiness in line. I'm going to leave this post today with one of Mcqueens Quote, based off a gown he created from feathers. I think it is a good reminder for us to always look at the sky, whether for a skyscraper, or bird. It is always ever so possible to reach your dreams.
"Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering, It is so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to a women." --A. Mcqueen