Creativity from Without!

Featured in the Billionaire Boys Blog Website, Julia Chiang fits the profile of a designer without. Julia utilizes of my favorite candy, ring pops. She takes the beauty of the shape, design, and color creating beautiful masterpieces. Julia uses her resources and designs from what are already available, what is given to her. She thinks outside of the box.

Who would have thought the little sticky candies with a hole for you finger could be used as wall art? No parents in their right mind would let their child stick a ring pop on the wall. But not Julia. She used what was around her and responded like a child in an adult manner.

Julia tastefully creates word exts on walls with sayings like "hugs + kisses", "sincerely yours", and "love always". She leaves the ring pops posted on the wall letting it melt, causing a drip effect on the wall. Julia exploits the beauty of colored ring pops allowing the colors and words to actually "pop" out of the wall.

 

As human specimens, we take advantage of ring pops. We only identify it as one thing, candy. We eat it. It's bad for our teeth and health. It's sticky and it leaves coloring in our mouth. We can design endless art with candy, we just need to get out of our comfort zone of ideas and play. We tend to think how society wants us to think. We should play with out food, only eat it. We shouldn't do what's out of the ordinary. But stirring away from the ordinary allows the creative juices to flow. As designers and people, we need to think like kids. Be a kid. Creativity starts young, we need to have the same mentality as we need 18 years ago.

First Experience With Design

It's hard to pinpoint a date and time about my first memory of a physical object and its design mechanisms. The design become unnoticed because it because ingrained as an everyday object. We just use it and we do not focus on the design behind it.

When you are young, you do not notice objects. You have a one track mind. When I was a kid, candy was my world. I ate a lot and very often. One object that stuck out to me was the candy, KitKat. Growing up, my parents let me get candy every time we went grocery shopping. With the variety of candy to choose from, I always choose KitKats. It wasn't the candy that enticed me, it was the color and typeface of the wrapping. It was bright red with huge fonts, that stuck out to me. Not to mention, the candy was detachable to one another. It felt great breaking off a piece of the KitKat bar. The size was different from all the regular candy bars, it was squared rather than elongated. However, that was a con in some ways. I could never stick it into my jean pocket. It was too squared compared to a Snicker bar where it easily slips in. But,  this was different and I like different. To me, it was like a win win situation, I got yummy candy and I got a pretty wrapper.

Now, candy wrappers make a difference in my choosing. I like the aesthetics of the candy. I tend to favor what the color offers and if I will enjoy it or not. KitKats are still the same in color and sizes. It is a universal know candy brand and with its simplistic design it has become distinct. It is easy to spot in the candy isle when you're in a rush at the grocery store.