Importance of Inspiration and Failed Studio Projects

Insights

Apr 5

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can’t, then you’re not looking properly.
— Paul Smith

I love this quote. For a designer who is so renowned for playing with contrasts, Paul Smith cuts into the mundane everyday-life and draws out excitement and inspiration.

Within design, it is important to be open-minded. To be inquisitive, playful, to see the world as a wonder full of unsolved mysteries and almost forgotten stories. It is necessary to be inspired, but hard to stay inspired. Studio projects are important. Creating and responding to design briefs helps foster and keep creative thinking and doing part of our everyday practice. Over the past two years of BrandCraft we have worked on various studio projects. It is hard to understand the success of each project, however some have definitely failed, or stalled!

@hklogo, 2017+

The ‘HK Logo’ studio project was supposed to be a daily updated archive of logos of Hong Kong with interesting stories. However, it rather quickly became clear that there aren’t that many to talk about, at least not one everyday! Also, it proved extremely difficult to find the creators of the logos and I got bored of writing ‘Designer unknown’. After only 24 posts, the project remains on hold for a hopefully better, richer logo-landscape of Hong Kong.