The great designer Saul Bass has said, “Design is thinking made visual”. Designing is something that is found inevitably everywhere. It is something without which our eyes wouldn’t be able to gawk at the marvelous wonders of this world. Everything- starting right from this page to the marvelous architectural wonders and to the natural world- is designing in some form or the other.
Designing is something that starts very early in a human’s life. Knowingly or unknowingly, we tend to create designs everywhere and at all times. Designing for the eye can be done using simply anything or, for that matter, nothing at all. Making sand-castles on the sea shore, crafting paper planes, writing an article or illustrating anything using a pen- everything is thinking made visual.
When a child is born, he is not able to communicate well with his surroundings. In fact, it is we, who are unable to understand what he is trying to communicate with his loud shouts, sweet smiles and insensible (to us) sounds. When he grows up a bit, we tend to shout at him when we see him ‘scribbling and destroying the walls’. He does the simple use of a crayon, chalk or a pen to illustrate his ideas on his huge canvas- the walls. We, as adults, think a hundred times before moving our pens for creating one simple design, but the child does no thinking and creates more than a hundred complex designs in the same span of time or even less than that. For him, there is no limit on canvas size or material to be used to create his innumerable and ever-changing innovative designs!
Well it has been rightly said, Designers never make mistakes, they only make changes!
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