Friday Vidcast: This Is Aarons Life (10-02-09) 
My comment on this video:
First, a play on a famous Picasso quote:
“Good designers steal, great designers steal from children.”
hehe
So, what I’m about to say may sounds really wacky, but I feel like a lot of the time — it is the rules and guidelines that I have to work within as designer that makes me *more* creative.
In so many ways, I feel like art school killed my creativity. It was this period where it’s all about self-exploration and finding your style and that’s all well and good, but I regularly felt during those times bored with all that self-serving creativity. Creativity without rules just felt like vanity, and it really turned me off.
When I went into Art School I was strictly a fine artist. I did painting and assemblage and making web pages was more of my guilty pleasure. (A little backwards, i know.) A year into school I ended up choosing to double-major in Fine Art and Design when I finally came out of the closet as a computer nerd. It was the ability to create within boundaries that made me feel like the creativity had *more* substance to it…
Is any of this making sense?
