Sharpening Our Design

I’ve been trying to learn more about what design is exactly (I know, a little sad considering I’m in a design class). No disrespect to Bang or Dondis but over the past few days I’ve gotten a better understanding of design and the fact that it is kind of all around us. I was searching for applications of design and stumbled upon what I think is a simple yet amazing site: sharpen.design. It automates a two-part prompt to serve as practice for professionals and students alike. The prompts are fairly simple — “Animate an icon for a pizza shop in Peru” and “Design a new logo for a hot sauce brand in NYC” are some of my personal favorites. There is also a STEM tab that focuses on designing prototypes of inventions as well as illustrating/painting. In the future or just in our free time, I think the site could be a really fun tool to get in some practice conceptualizing and creating art, and even getting more experience with Illustrator and Blender. I’ve personally been in a bit of a creative funk, and this has been a perfect cure to my block. I’m also curious, what do you all do when you have any kind of creative block?