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Art & culture
in the science of drawing, observed some design teachers Jackson uttered that in a slum,
delve into the science of design encouraging students to adopt there are two hemispheres of
expression. They concluded technological devices for solving a problem: a broken
that designers should not shortcuts, such as copy-pasting, window for a glazier to fix,
labour to produce perfect tracing, and projecting, to a shattered brick for a mason
designs but express intuition, achieve a piece of art that is to substitute with a block, a
creativity, and imagination perceived as perfect. In the missing door for a carpenter to
while solving problems. process, creativity, intuition, replace it, and an abandoned
Edwards says the human and imagination are lost. The wall for a designer to paint the
mind comprises the brain’s designer’s mind conforms to wall with a beautiful element
right hemisphere, concerned a copy-and-paste mentality. I of design.
with creativity, imagination, have also observed students
intuition, and innovation. taking refuge in technological I strongly propose that
Meanwhile, the brain’s left devices anytime they are designers emphasise achieving
hemisphere is concerned handling a simple design the final design’s quality rather
with analytical, rational, and problem instead of employing than using shortcuts, copy-
intellectual aspects. A perfect creative minds to tackle the pasting, and other technological
design accesses the brain’s left problem, devices. A designer should
hemisphere, concerned with honestly nurture creativity
realism, facts, and correctness. It is essential to summarise by constantly accessing the
that a good design is not just creative hemisphere of the
Designers should be inclined a commodity for earning a brain in any design problem.
more on both hemispheres living or fame; it is a tool He should meditate on the
of the brain to solve design for advancing creativity, psychological voices of the
problems and put more effort imaginative thinking, analytical hemisphere of the
into their unique creativity and recreation, and problem- brain for the illusion of a
imagination. solving. Edwards has reinstated perfect design. An excellent
that this is only accessible in design should not be static
At the university, we faced the creative hemisphere of the and restless but also convey
the same warfare of producing brain. This means the creative emotion and intuition to the
creative design versus the hemisphere of the brain is viewer. In the other phase,
perfect piece of art. It resulted deceived when the designer a designer should be able to
in some innovative design uses a shortcut or copy-and- access both hemispheres of the
students dropping out of paste instrument. Consequently, brain in the design process.
art school to practice their the analytical hemisphere of
art. Unfortunately, most art the brain interprets design A good car receives credit
school curricula nurture and problems as a stressor that when it is either moving or
develop the brain’s analytical needs the help of technological displayed in the car showroom.
hemisphere, emphasising devices. Therefore, the creative Technological devices came
perfect work, a good job, and hemisphere of the brain is to ease the workload, not as
well-finished work rather denied the chance to solve a an alternative to creativity
than developing creativity, design problem; at the same and imagination. Designers
imagination, and intuition. time, intuition and touch are should use technology devices
On the contrary, I have lost in the design. Jessen correctly to enhance creativity
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