In-progress work is uncomfortable, it shows more open questions than answers; and “uncertainty”, as Paul Soulellis wrote in The Manual, “runs counter to how we’re trained to articulate our design values. We’re taught to express clearly and certainly”, but in-progress work is usually not clear yet, craft is messy and dirty, and sometimes you hit a dead end. Facing this is unsettling — maybe especially so for a generation of designers raised with the shiny precision of computers. We love that precision, even if deep down we know that it’s often a lie. The precise numbers of computers can make our work look like we’ve found answers when really all we have are questions, and the only truth we know is vague.
Nina Stössinger, "Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment," typographica.org, 27 May 2013
typographica.org/reports/sketching-out-of-my-comfort-zone-a-type-design-experiment/ via Robb Perry.
