May 26, 2010
by steph
This drawing is from a several years ago, around the time that we were watching documentaries and reading about food production in the 20th and 21st centuries. It was a drawing that organically developed from my mind processing ideas that I had previously not really considered.
Growing up in Southern California, I never experiencing farming or factories first hand, so I will not pretend to be an expert. I know that with advancing technology there are both pros and cons financially, ecologically and sociologically.
This is the same story in the design world. Designers used to create everything with their hands, but with the development of computers the role of the designer has changed quite a bit, for both the good and the bad.
Often we rely too heavily on the computer, I personally believe that it is important for our work to still feel touched by a human hand. A large portion of my work combines something I have personally drawn, painted or photographed with the technology available on photoshop and illustrator. I find myself drawn to the merging of organic and clean, hand-drawn and computer generated...that by beginning a design with our imperfect hands we create something uniquely us.