Note: This is the first incarnation of Design Your Life. It was quite detailed. I never finished it. I have all the materials. It goes on my scrappy bucket list, I guess. I had more success with Cathy’s DYL 2.0, which was six weeks in length in the Spring of 2017. Carol Anne 8/11/2019
Spent some time today working through the first two weeks’ assignments in Cathy Z’s “Design Your Life” class. I’m a month behind in the class, but that’s life.
I like what I’m learning so far. As a technical writer, I need to consider design when I craft documents for work — especially when I am creating graphics. The design principles Cathy describes are universal. They apply to scrapbooking, web design, photography, newsletter design. Anything that is visual.
So right now I am concentrating on balance and symmetry — not two of my strong points right out of the box. What I find interesting is how difficult I find applying this concept to scrapbooking. But, if I am working entirely with text or widgets, it comes naturally to me.
Perhaps the solution is that I need to look at all the things that I put on a scrapbook page as widgets or funny-looking paragraphs of text.
I use to play with placement when I first started scrapbooking — moving things around before pasting it down. I stopped playing around as my crafting time got more limited.
Perhaps that’s where the actual issue lies: I am limited by the clock. I can’t produce as many pages as I use to a sitting, because I have less time to actually work. And that is impacting the quality of my work because I’m trying to produce the same quantity that I had in the past.
I think I need to explore my quality/quantity dilemna.