Modern Carolingian Calligraphy
You gotta make a lot of stuff before you make stuff like yourself.
This quote and specially the text above, both from talented illustrator and designer Timothy Goodman, has always deeply resonated with me. It makes me reflect on the importance of the process and our personal creative journey.
“In my travels, I meet a lot of graphic designers and I’m always so surprise to hear how many of them want a ‘style’ (wether is a good or bad idea to develop a ‘style’ is another argument entirely). They think it will bring them more opportunity or more notoriety or more money, and in some ways, they’re right of course. However you can’t go actively looking for a ‘style’. You have to let it come to you, you have to stumble on it. And the only way you do that is with time and effort and letting your own sensibilities and personality come through.
If you are a maker, and you’re interested in making, then you have to make a lot of stuff for a long time; you have to play and be curious and experiment with many ‘styles’. Then, maybe if you stumble on a ‘style’ that is authentic to you, you can go ahead and let it kill you” By Timothy Goodman.
