A professor in my 2019 design class said my color palettes were 'emotionally safe' and it stung.

I started forcing myself to use one jarring, unexpected color in every collection, like acid green in a fall line, and it's made my work way more interesting, but how do you all push past your own creative comfort zones?

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blair_torres7012d ago

Honestly that professor sounds kind of pretentious. "Emotionally safe" is a weird thing to get hung up on. The color trick is fine if it works for you, but maybe the whole idea of comfort zones is overblown. Sometimes good work is just about making something that looks right, not forcing a weird color into a fall line for the sake of it.

spencerross12d ago

Yeah, that's a harsh way to put it for sure. I actually find "safe" work is often just work that's technically correct but missing a point of view. The jarring color trick works because it forces you to build a new story around it.

lilyt2313d ago

Wait, they actually said "emotionally safe" out loud in a critique? That's brutal lol. Forcing the weird color is such a good idea though. I try to set dumb little rules for myself, like only using stuff I find at the thrift store for a month. It makes you solve problems you wouldn't normally have.

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