Sunday, 3 February 2013

You Can't Please Everyone

With a huge amount of practise and skill a designer is able to create a client or directors vision.  Reaching this skill level though is only the beginning. The next step is to learn 'you can't please everyone'. Only then can you follow your instincts and create art and design that inspires.

Pleasing everyone has the opposite of the desired effect.  Being acceptable and meeting expectation results in work that is watered down and uninspiring.  The best approach is to exceed expectations, create great work!

This of course leaves room for someone to dislike your art. Some will interpret it as wrong. Designers and artist know there is always a small audience who will make no connection. What keeps us creating is to remember the work is not for them. The work is for the people it does connect with.

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