Design frustrations

Posted by Raphael on Nov 2, 2009 in My Business Adventures, Rants | 0 comments

I’m suffering from extreme designer’s block lately. I have a good few projects in my table that I have every intention to create something wonderful for, but I can’t get my head into the mood of design.

Part of the problem is just accepting family life. While 9 month old Kingston can be inspirational at times when I stare at him, there’s only so many weekends I can handle staring at him play, eat and nap before I have started going crazy from the routine. All my old ways of recuperating and letting my mind relax have all but disappeared. As a new parent, I’ve given up watching the TV programs or video games I used to love watching. I can’t just pick up my wife and go watch a movie anymore. I can’t even go to the beach because of fear the sun will burn him or he’ll eat handfuls of sand. Instead, I’m caught watching the same kid TV show in perpetual repeat mode.

Yup. I can almost hear what my parents would say, “See what we went through?”. You get that “You guys have it easy….back in our days when you were a baby we yadda yadda yadda” You know, it’s all good and dandy to hear that what we’re experiencing is normal to every new parent, but it still doesn’t help my current dilemma for my business. It’s scary enough time as it is during this slow economy…I can’t afford to be having a designer’s block at the same time too.

So somehow, my challenge these days is trying to find inspiration just sitting here week after week behind my desk. Here’s a couple of sites I’ve found that list ways for designers to get inspiration. I gotta look through these and force my mind into action: