Documentation of your creative/design/artistic process is an integral part of your creative practice; it records the many steps in the inception and creation of a piece of work. This is important because it allows you to:
- Review & Reflect
Process documentation allows you to review and reflect on the iterative journey of your ideas and their physical manifestations over time. Being able to do this is vital when you’re seeking to refine your process. - Save Ideas for Future Projects
Process documentation can often be the catalyst for future projects that derive from some unexplored thread in the original idea. - Recapture
Process documentation captures previous points in the life of creative works, it records points and alternative thoughts/directions that you may need to go back to if the chosen path does not prove successful. - Share Your Process
Process documentation provides ample material you can use to communicate to a public audience the narrative of your work, the evolution of your ideas, the morphology of materials and forms and maybe most importantly, your unique thinking process.
With this in mind, throughout the duration of the semester every student must carefully document all of the work created in this class, from brainstorming sessions with post-it notes, to pages in a sketchbook to rough prototypes. You will post this documentation on your process website on a daily or at least weekly basis.
Remember: you never know who may discover your process website.
WordPress & Server Registration
You have several options:
- Create a dedicated wordpress via NYU Web Publishing
- Create a dedicated Medium or WordPress site for this course only
- Add a designated category to an existing site you already own and maintain.