I started off just going to Cracker Barrel for a quick bite to eat. Little did I know it would turn into my next experience. Walking in I had planned to do a little drawing while eating so I asked my waitress for some paper and pen. She comes back with filled out seating charts for scrap paper and a regular Bic pen. Naturally I start scanning through the different names on each chart and wonder what they may have had to eat. My stomach growls and I start looking for my waitress, who I hope plans on serving me now. Glancing at the wall next to me, I notice some interesting vintage signs with all different kinds of typography while continuing to read the seating charts and let my mind do the connections impulsively. At the time I tried to make a connection with each chart by continuing the list with another person's name or thing that made sense to me. Mind you all the connections or drawings were from signage inside Cracker Barrel, so I think it came out interesting. It's funny how at the time the connections that I made seemed to fit really well but now that I read it over I don't know what I was thinking. It is the same for design, when we come up with the saving grace or the answer to the problem, we work on it, it looks so good and finished, then we realize the next day how horrible it is. Yeah but that was my baby! Yeah right! One of my professor's back at community college use to make us work on a drawing for four hours at least, then he would come around and shammy every one's baby. Drawing,s of course. I learned quickly nothing is sacred in the art world and sometimes doing things fast with no thought involved create great results.
