For me, one of the hardest things about creating is not having any rules that inform my creativity. I used to think that I didn’t have enough time or money to really invest in my creativity — but once I hit a point in my life where I did have BOTH time and money to invest in my creativity I was super overwhelmed.
Today on the show Katrina and I are talking about how to create constraint to keep you moving throughout a project.
Specifically we’re discussing:
- We’re more creative with rules or parameters, and how to do that
- When to launch a project, when projects are finished, and how to share a project that isn’t “finished”
- When to sell your project (if at all)
- How projects can get legs and turn into other opportunities
- Seeing what’s possible, and how tiny moments can add up to something larger
- How sharing your work can be a critical part of the formation process
About Katrina McHugh
Katrina is a graphic designer and partner at Flight Design Co, a small strategy and graphic design studio that specializes in branding for small businesses. In addition to her day-to-day responsibilities of managing a design studio, she works hard to maintain space for her personal creative practice which involves keeping a sketchbook, creating digital collages based on song lyrics and collaborating with other creatives.
- Lyrical Natural Sciences - (exciting announcement – it’s becoming a book!)
- The Sketchbook Project - ongoing personal work that has lead to artist collaborations
- Info Club - Infographic Side Project to push me to stay committed to learning more about data visualization and play with telling data-driven stories.
- The Question Everything Project -Collaboration with a writer friend that is launching soon that will explore questions like “what have you been hiding from?” from the perspective that sharing is transformational, but also not always the most appropriate or easiest path in daily life.
- Flight Design Co: http://www.flightdesign.co/
- https://www.instagram.com/flightdesign/
- https://www.instagram.com/katrinamchugh/