RE: Writerz Diary 001
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The tension was palpable as I opened the file on my mobile, revealing a series of old paintings I had made using spray paint. The shopkeeper looked at me skeptically, but I could sense his curiosity growing. "I like to paint stuff like this," I said, my voice low and persuasive.
I like very much how did you put the story. My EN level is definitely not so good, for storytelling.
The one I love most, is the Sea Turtle from 2014, and also this iteration of the mural:
Minimalism!
ps. warmly welcome to walk with me across SPb streets, in my last post. My first proper Spring walk!
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It's crazy, but most of my painting friends said the same. Minimalism. The sophisticated ones. I appreciate your opinion a lot because you are truly an artist to me with a strong visual understanding of the world not just through your photography. Appreciate your comment a lot my friend.
Nothing crazy, that is true, trivia. When there are too much details our brain hardly can distinguish, stress out the most important part. I can tell you a designer's story from my friends experience, if you'd like to... illustrating this principle in a simple way.
People with bad taste are a problem for a designer (and also a source of his income, haha). One of my friends worked as a designer, doing layout for leaflets, booklets, etc. He had so often to explain his customers the need for empty space and margins. His clients paid their money for design and wanted the printed surface to be used as efficiently as possible, in other words -> so that everything was overloaded with pictures, text, and there were no free space / sufficient margins.
So, once my friend came up with the "reusable argument". He made two tablets with same text... well, for example, a title in two lines; in one case it was surrounded by big white margins, and in the other case it was surrounded by other text and various graphic elements. He pulled the tablet out of the table, held it for a second in front of a client's face and put it away... and then asked what you saw, read, remembered? This is where clients began to see clearly and understand... in one case, no information had time to get into the brain, and in another case, they read that headline. This trick worked damn convincingly! Better than a thousand words.... Hehe. I hope this design 'wisdom' was curious. Of course, there are no "rigorous and only" rules, everything is good in moderation .
That makes a lot of sense! I see how minimalism can be more efficient. My friend who is an architect had very similar comments on the process and froze precisely the same image. You surely struck it with your comment here. Thanks buddy!
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