This is a ranting post, if you can’t take it, don’t bother reading it.

The internet is one huge and shallow place, you can find tutorials, loads of beautiful photoshop collages and digital art that will make your eyeballs pop. Pretty much everything related to visual design. That’s exactly the problem. Once we start to dive into the digital worlds of visual RSS subscribtions you will get 20-50 articles a day with plenty of beautiful pictures. So many things will hit you that you can’t even remember what you have seen in the article before. Top this, top that lists, actually not offering anything innovative or new, just giving what the boring masses want to see, easy to consume visual eye candy.

Visual overload will kill your creativity!

If you really want to create something stop looking at what other do and start doing your own stuff. Lately it’s simply sickening to see tutorials exploited to the fullest without a single string of creativity attached to them. It’s like painting with numbers, it will not do you any good even though it gets you results. After a while design, which some people might call applied art (actually design is not art! it’s a craft.), becomes boring. Concept art on the other side is almost never boring.

Design & Illustrations are only beautiful, skilled or technically advanced, but they have not much more to offer. There is a small amount of creative guys and a herde of simple people ripping them off. And you know why? Because there are so many creative magazines and tutorial zines starting every week where you can find the same pictures, the same tutorial, the same guys… the sadest part is, that there is so much input to find and only so little of it sticks out to be reminded. This is one ugly rant… It’s just that I can’t stand it anymore and I will abandon my RSS reader I guess, or cut it down to 10 subscriptions at max. Edit: As I found out, I could not go any lower than 21 subscriptions without quitting my rss reader completly. Let’s see if this will help reducing the visual overkill.