Why I haven’t been blogging FITC
Posted by Brett Tackaberry on April 24th, 2007
As you’ve probably picked up on, a small contingent of 76designers have made the trip down to Toronto’s FITC conference. Unlike SXSW, which I blogged quite a bit, I haven’t been documenting my experience here the same way. It’s not that I’m not getting a lot out of the sessions – in fact, they’ve been consistently excellent – but what I get out of FITC has always been much less tangible. Instead of things like tips on how to manage multimedia projects or techniques to market our web applications, I’ve been learning how to find inspiration in the everyday and mundane, why I should keep drawing and making art, and to keep collecting lots of vinyl records. It’s all about personal creativity and what inspires each of us to create. And of course I’ve been seeing tonnes and tonnes of fantastic work. Seems like when I leave FITC each year I’m simultaneously creatively recharged, humbled, excited and even somewhat frustrated that I haven’t taken more time to hone my own skill set since the previous year. But most of all, I leave feeling satisfied that I was able to be here to take it all in.
