So I just finished reading the last chapter of the book this week which was chapter ten. It also was the shortest chapter of the book and I am thinking it is because of what it was talking about. This chapter was talking about having constraints on your projects and leaving things out. It reminds me of the saying, less is more.

By putting limitations or trying to make something out of the minimal materials adds a whole new creativity to your work, being able to do something with what you have! It gets your mind to think differently than how it has been and with less it is less junk or clutter for people to have to filter out.

I am currently working on a project that has to do a lot with restraints. It is not necessarily graphic design related but we still had to be very creative with it. This year we are putting together a hydroponic U-Pick strawberry patch out at the farm. We bought it used over the winter and spent most of the time tearing it down and moving it. Our timeline got shorted with other projects coming up and two weeks ago we realized we needed to start rebuilding the system so we can plant before it’s too late. So Time was a huge limiting factor. The system we bought will hold up to 8,500 strawberry plants. Well the first thing we did was cut that in half so we started figuring how to build half the system next is we wanted to build and put it inside a 100x40 foot greenhouse to hold it all but again due to time we couldn’t. Long story short we ended up assembling the system to make it temporary so next year we could move it into a new green house. This was not as easy as you would think when dealing with a hydroponic system that delivers water and nutrients to over 4,000 plants in a two week time. But yesterday we had the system framed up and the plants came in today so this weekend we will be filling the pots with the medium and plants.

Here is a picture of what we have up.