When designing, I often find at some stage that the design itself gets a life of its own and takes charge. There comes a time when the design dictates what happens next whether it is colour choices, size, imagery - more or less anything can happen! If all is going well I can surprise myself with the brilliance of what is unfolding, so when that happens I feel I can't really take credit for it. At other times, I can have a day when it all goes badly; the things I wanted to include just don't fit, the colours look awful etc.etc. I suppose then it is fair enough not to take responsibility for that either. The odd thing is that sometimes designing just seems to happen by itself and sometimes not - and I have no say in the matter!
When sportsmen say "I played well today" it is not as boastful as it sounds because one's performance is a completely separate entity and sometimes you just have to wait and see what happens. As a designer, I can be completely thrilled by one of my own designs and completely indifferent to another. Needless to say, the indifferent ones never see the light of day!
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