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Imagine Design Create Inspire

About

How do you solve a problem??? look for Inspiration, Imagine a solution, design the solution and create the solution... Over the years of solving problems... and noticing the patterns... I have summarized the problem solving process as 4 step circular process... Once a problem is identified, the steps are Imagine a solutions, Design the solution, create the solution, and then be inspired by the solution to solve another problem. It's not a linear process, its circular, as the inspiration of a good solution, or a bad solutions, triggers imagining a solution to a new problem. And the cycle starts again.

From an early age...I have had a desire to make things, and to take things apart... to learn... to understand... and explain... how things work...

To describe me as "curious" would be an understatement... insatiable is closer... pretty much everything intrigues me... except small talk...

The experience, skill and knowledge I demonstrate in these videos have been gathered, honed, exercised, nurtured and grown from years of experience, and learning and recognizing the patterns...

One of my greatest strengths is my ability to spot patterns... I heard a quote from someone in the "gifted community" who said... "Once is a Pattern..."... I can relate to that... and I am here to share some of the patterns I have discovered in my 50 plus years of "solving problems" better known as making things.

as many people have said, You don't become good a something my doing it once... and you don't stay good at it without exercising it. I've learned many of the things from listening to people, and observing people over the years and now I want to share some of them with you.

I do have may abilities... and at least one curious lack of ability... I am face blind... I have no ability to recognize or remember faces.. which from my observations... 95% of the population does without even thinking about it.

Process

If I want to be a better designer (chef) I will not get there by watching YouTube videos and "following their step by step instructions"...I will simply be a "good follower" and never come up with anything "unique" or "ME".

To be a better designer, I begin by considering and understanding all of the materials I will use, all of the material properties, its strength, rigidity, flexibility, durability, suitability, and vulnerabilities. Then I learn how to "process" the material... cut it, shape it, form it, fasten it, protect it... once I have an appreciation for the material then I can use that knowledge and experience to design a solution that suits the properties of the material and the need its meant to serve.

The next component of design is to identify a "genuine" need... as needs can be "created" or genuinely exist. The design need to speak to the purpose, whether it be functional or aesthetic. The design has to accept the material properties, durability, capability, time, use and "costs" which considered and balanced. Once I have an appreciation (acceptance) of the material and a design then I can move on the process of creating "something". The process of "creating" is usually where "youTube" videos start...(a recipe shortcut) they rarely talk about material or design... missing the "most value added" (or self rewarding) parts of the process.

When I have materials and a design the next step to "create" something. Making something requires tools and dexterity, and understanding of the tools, how they work,how to control the tool and the confidence and understanding to operate the tool and the imagination to know what the tool is capable of. Creating is a process, all of the steps have to be understood and organized in the right order, planned out, prepared and executed...in the appropriate sequence. This planning part of the process is only seen "if you get it wrong"... get it right and the process will go unnoticed.

When the project is created this whole process becomes merely a "preparation" (inspiration) for the next project. I begin again, taking what I learned about the material, the design, the techniques, the function, the aesthetic, and that is the START of the next project... the "popular" "YouTube" videos focus on how quick, how easy, or how cheap they can "do a project"... (short cuts) for me they are missing the purpose completely.

More succinctly stated by William Morris 1834-1896 (brackets added to bring from 19th century to 21st century).

A (wo)man at work, making something which (s)he feels will exist because (s)he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his(her) mind and soul as well as of his(her) body. Memory and imagination help 
him(her) as (s)he works. Not only his(her) own thoughts, but the thoughts of the (wo)men of past ages guide his(her) hands; and, as a part of the human race, (s)he creates. If we work thus we shall be (wo)men, and our days 
will be happy and eventful.

Tag Lines

Solve a problem!!! The process of solving a problem Success leaves clues... Sean Cannell... so does failure... Learning... weather it is a success or failure is immaterial. Success is proving what you knew... failure is the opportunity to learn something new...

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