roboknot

FWW is a resource - period. It doesn't affect my brain or my attitudes. If it is constraining Tom Loeser's creativity, that's his problem, not FWW's.

I like using traditional methods while pushing the envelope on the sort of design I apply them to. I once created a small table that is so useless as a table that it's almost sculpture. (I did that deliberately, I hasten to add.) By careful juxtaposition of expected elements, it sets up expectations of table-ness, but soon forces a realization that it can't be used. It was a fun project made possible by years of experience built up, in part, through exposure to FWW magazine all the way back to issue #1. I couldn't have learned as much during all those years without FWW, but it didn't hinder my creativity one little bit.