Creative Pragmatism, The Realistic Approach in Design World
There are several real-world examples to understand creative pragmatism. This means everyone can experience it intentionally or unintentionally. Things remain the same unless something occurs that compels you to look and observe. The observation could be a good painting, a trending fashion, a unique style, or a creative design. Or it could be a book that brings you peace of mind. Summarizing the above, It has been established, however, that not every new object captures your interest every time. But you also consciously admire something old, classical, historical, and realistic from the past. This is how creativity and pragmatism influence your intellectual behaviors silently.
Applying such comprehensive results to the creative agencies and design field brought many positive results in the last couple of years. Especially in the post-pandemic business era.
Being creative means taking risks, expressing yourself freely, and motivating others. While pragmatism refers to the realistic approach that is rooted in experience rather than theory.
Creative pragmatism looks like a merger of two opposite doctrines. But in fact, it is an applied science that provides a space for the classical heritage to connect with innovation and the latest technology.
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Pragmatism is not a threat to creative designers but to the followers
The design world is an open market where thousands of designers exist, and hundreds of those joins and leave every day. Whenever newbies try to follow the market trend, they unintentionally start following the design pattern, not the creative ideology of the designer from where the design emerged. This creates a junk of inappropriate designs with irrelevant subject formats. The theme of creative pragmatism suggests that whether you adopt an existing design format or going to create something entirely new be in touch with the classical, practical, and realistic approach.
How to balance creativity and pragmatism?
Being two opposite streams, it is important to maintain a balance between the two to develop a peaceful environment for creative pragmatism. Let’s have a quick view of the unique properties:
✅ Creativity consists of
- Rule Breaking
- Extreme
- Impractical
- Ordinary
- Highly Experimental
✅ Pragmatism comprises with
- Classic
- Confirming
- Practical
- Luxury
- Heritage
Each property of creativity has its opponent in pragmatism. To maintain a considerable balance needs a proportionate blending of these properties according to the subject requirements.
- Rule breaking may be merged with the classical principle so the rules may only be left where they restrict innovation.
- Extreme creativity with self-implementing power should be examined in a realistic confirming phase where the need for new implementations is finalized.
- Creativity begins with an impractical, insecure new idea but the risk of its failure can be reduced with the study of historical and practically implemented ideas
- Innovation depends upon mass acceptance for a long time before its dominates, if blended with the luxuries of a realistic approach its universal acceptance will boost rapidly.
- Heritage holds the power to eliminate multiple experiments for a new idea to move on quickly. Finding the similarities between experiments and the available classical knowledge is a form of pre-experimental endorsement.
Conclusion
Creative pragmatism has made a prominent entrance into the design field in 2022. The concept is deeply rooted and widely appreciated to stand out in the market. It is important to understand that no one is born with a sense of creativity, nor it can be learned from an institution but develops with time, the nature you come with, the environment you live in, the people you met, the books you read, and the discussion you may have an interest in. Rest assured that creative pragmatism is not raising questions about your creative skills and expertise, but it gives you room to enhance and purify your professional capabilities with a proportionate addition of classical, practical, and confirming heritage experiences.
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