# Designer's Block **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 16, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324 "2004-06-16T22:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Tara](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tara)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/1 "2004-06-16T22:49:50Z")
Do y’all ever get designer’s block? It just seems whatever I come up with is never good enough and I scrap it and start from square one. It’s SO frustrating! Anyone else experience this? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/2 "2004-06-16T22:57:08Z")
Only when designing for myself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/3 "2004-06-16T22:58:50Z")
All the time, so I usually just go down to the local park and sketch, and draw whatever I see, It really gives me a lot of inspiration ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/4 "2004-06-17T01:52:20Z")
Haha, I get that a lot bud. Trust me, all you gotta do is just take a break, and listen to some Aphex Twins, Windowlicker… you’ll be ok 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/5 "2004-06-17T02:00:06Z")
> [@grinch](#): > > … and listen to some Aphex Twins, Windowlicker… you’ll be ok 😉 Some who? :h: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/6 "2004-06-17T07:29:58Z")
Money is my inspiration 😛 so i dont really have problems when i am getting what i asked for. > [@Yeldarb](#): > > Only when designing for myself. same for me, i was planning to transfer a cheque to my account…u know mock it ahahahhhah but it did’nt work at all.Anywya i made a pretty nice site in the end. jokes aside, i have been helping a few designers from the forum…otherwise too by email and stuff regarding the same problem,its pretty common with starters…but when they learned to fly…they never came back ☹ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/7 "2004-06-17T15:03:50Z")
> [@Yeldarb](#): > > Only when designing for myself. ditto. when i have a lot to work with i.e. input from client, images i tend to do much better ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/8 "2004-06-17T15:44:26Z")
I had writers block for about a month, started 3 or 4 websites that never got past 30%. Then I was sitting at work with nothing to do, opened up Windows Notepad and started writing. It all came to me like a charm, I wrote the longest piece of code I had ever written, went home, put it in Flash and it worked straight away. (then I saw a thread a couple of days later on Kirupa, explaining everything I had just done, Aaarrgghhh!!!) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/9 "2004-06-17T15:49:01Z")
> [@Yeldarb](#): > > Only when designing for myself. Yes, for some reason, when I need to or want to design for someone else I have like a billion ideas, but when I design for myself and my own sites, I just get blocked. It’s like I’m running 245 mph on a highway and then all of a sudden you hit a flat invisible barrier and your mind goes blank :h:… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/10 "2004-06-17T16:35:43Z")
Hey Ordinathorreur is that Rik from the Young Ones in your avatar? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/11 "2004-06-17T17:49:38Z")
I click around [www.coolhomepages.com](http://www.coolhomepages.com) or deviant art for creative inspiration. Or I say screw it! and crack open a beer and watch sportscenter lol…you said Y’all ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/12 "2004-06-17T17:59:18Z")
u are completely right yeldarb, that only happens when I do something for myself…I never thought about it, only now that I read it…weird ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/13 "2004-06-17T19:23:38Z")
ditto, **[www.coolhomepages.com](http://www.coolhomepages.com)** > [@fester8542](#): > > I click around [www.coolhomepages.com](http://www.coolhomepages.com) or deviant art for creative inspiration. > > Or I say screw it! and crack open a beer and watch sportscenter > > lol…you said Y’all ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/14 "2004-06-17T20:05:09Z")
> [@lunatic](#): > > Hey Ordinathorreur is that Rik from the Young Ones in your avatar? 🙂 Sure is! :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block/113324/15 "2004-06-17T20:09:57Z")
oh man I wish they would bring that show back! I remember watching it on MTV and then for a brief bit on PBS. We have a few episodes on VHS but there are a few episodes I don’t have that I would love to see again! It’s funny - whenever it’s my turn in the Movie Quotes thread all I can think of at first are Young Ones quotes! :beam: