The Creative Process

During the week in Design class Professor Housefield talked about the creative process of design and how it beneficiates designers. The creative process is the process of how designers can develop their ideas to create new designs. The process consists of three simple steps. The first step of the creative process is    “Sponge.” Sponge is the first step, the step where designers absorb ideas and grab ideas from other designers or environment in order to be able to create their own work. When designers absorb ideas from others like sponges, they can later have a major role in their designs because the ideas that were absorbed can create a fusion leading to a new type of design.  The second of the process is called “ Filter”.  In the filter part, designers take out the ideas that aren’t needed and they keep the ideas or things they want to keep.  Filtering ideas improve the designer’s ideas because it is the part of the process where unnecessary things are thrown away.  Meaning that the ideas that are kept with the designs are the ones that lead to the new designs.  Finally, the last step in the creative process is called “ Voice”.  Voice is the final stage where the designers show to the world his/her new idea; he announces the new ideas he has in mind. After all the absorbing of ideas, processing and filtering ideas,  it finally comes down to showing the idea. The whole point of the process is to learn from others, use the information and material we feel are necessary to create something new, so that at the end we can show it with pride.