Recently, I’ve been a little low on inspiration and motivation. Sure, the jobs are still coming in, but for some reason, I’m criticizing my work alot more. That which used to impress me or at least, look good to me now seem mediocre at best. I am of course, talking about my own work.

I realized that this is not the first time this has happened, and it is a common occurrence for many people in the creative industry. Is it because we look at our work too often until the point that we get sick of them? Or is it the inevitable result of being a perfectionist ?

Ever since I redesigned my splash page at www.Fred-Lin.com several months back, I had been contemplating of redesigning my other pages as well, namely Fred Lin Music, Fred Lin Design Studio and of course, this blog. I’ve come up with some design concepts, and while they seemed truly exceptional at that time, a few weeks later I want to scrap them and come up with something better. To the point where I’m back at square one right now, after planning the original redesign for already a couple of months.

I’m starting to wonder if the problem is because the design wasn’t good enough, or simply because I went back to look at it a little far too often. Do we really need to break new grounds in order for a design to stick around long ?

Do you have the same problems ?