How To Avoid Roadblocks To Your Creativity When Designing a Logo

If you are a creative person be it a painter, designer or a writer you must know that sometimes you have to go through a phase when you just run out of creativity. Though it is occasional but you cannot avoid it. This is a temporary phase when you face a huge roadblock in your mind and do not feel writing, painting or anything. This phase is often called creative roadblock which often pops up in your mind threatening to slip your pending projects. If you are a logo designer and reputed enough to get lots of projects then this kind of creative road block can be quite harmful for both your personal and professional life.

Logo designing is not an easy job as its takes a lot of creativity and innovative ideas. Apart from that you need to meet the deadline of the project to ensure your punctuality.

Fortunately there are some suggestion which you can apply to get out of such creative roadblocks. Following are the few tips which can prevent you from getting distracted from your works.

Proper Use of Internet: While using internet be it for study or job, we tend to get distracted from our actual job. We often start moving one page to another gradually focusing away from our target. According to Jonathan Franzen, a famous novelist, anybody writing anything i.e. fiction cannot write well if he or she uses internet simultaneously.

Logo designing is not at all an easy job and needs your 100% attention. But it is also necessary to search internet for latest designs, ideas, templates. But while you are on web you should be focused strictly on your work. Reading latest blogs or news or visiting shopping sites only wastes your valuable time. Though it is necessary for a logo designer to use internet for inspiration but there should be a balance between use and misuse of the internet.

Change Surroundings if Feeling Restless: Restlessness is a part of life of not only a logo designer but every creative person. Sometimes a logo designer find himself restless while working on a particular project. This can be due to excessive pressure or the effort and time he needs to provide for the job. He can solve this issue by changing the surroundings of his work space or moving the entire work station from one place to another. But it can be done only if he is working from home. But it can be tough if you are in office. Though many organizations allow their employees who are into creative fields to shift their work base frequently or decorate the space to help them unwind.

Do not Be Too Practical: It may sound odd to the people not related to creative business, but this is very true for the people related to logo designing, fiction writing, painting etc. While designing a logo you should not be too worried about payment, deadline, budget or clients. All these might hamper your creativity and can be effective on the logo you have designed. Let your imagination rule while you are involve in such things. Too much practical thinking can create a roadblock in your mind. But forgetting all about clients, meetings, budgets or deadlines may hamper your career if you are a professional logo designer.

Do not force Your Imagination: Sometime you cannot prevent your mind from facing roadblock. You just feel unenthusiastic and do not feel doing anything though you have the deadlines in mind. Many people suggest that in this state of mind people should try their hands in some other projects which sometimes helps to get over the monotony of the work you are doing. But this is not always true. This sometimes spoil all the projects you are handling.

As a professional logo designer you cannot afford to experiment with your clients as they are paying you for the job. Therefore, it is suggested that do not force your imagination and try to keep low for sometime. This will also help you to relax a bit and you never know that may some unexpected happen which means you may come out with some excellent and innovative logo ideas which may create wonder for both you and your clients.

It is most important for a logo designer to make his creativity flow at any cost. Sometimes roadblocks may prevail their mind but the phase is temporary. On the other hand their clients or the organizations who are handling such creative people should understand this thing as well and should work on it.


The above article is written by AM who is an associate writer and High end logo designer. She is an expertise writer for writing articles related to Logo Design, Logo Folios and anything that is related to them. Her latest work can be find here :  corporate branding design .

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