Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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It is probably over 30 years when I started making designs. Mostly jewellery designs.
At first, I kept them save in organised maps, but after a while I just stored them in maps.
I also bought some sketch books, that way the designs are organised chronicle.
But after all these years, I made that much designs, I hardly can find a particular one when I need one, I even don’t know where to look for or if I already made that particular design.
At first, I thought it would be great stuff after I’m gone, that those designs would be a treasure.
Now I’m thinking that it is too much information for those who come after me. I also found out that we only can live our own live, looking at photos we made some decades in the past. Perhaps once in a year we look at photos our grandparents and parents made.
Yes one could be lucky, only having a few hundreds photos illustrating one’s history. But my “artistic†family not only made thousands photos, they also made sketches, paintings and sculptures. They had a diary book every year whit illustrations and so on. They just illustrated their own history.
My problem is that I even can’t read my own history being so productive by storing it and still storing more by making designs, making some cuts, making thousands jewellery, writing down diary’s, and so on.
I also kept all the designs my 5 children made when they where kids.
So for some years, I don’t store all of my designs anymore, as to me it makes no sense. Yes if I would be famous perhaps it would have more value to others, but I’m only a bit famous.
So what I did is, I used a scanner and stored the designs I liked the most. I have some Hard Disk’s to store all of that as a backup.
But I’m interested to know how all of you have organised the designs and photos you made.
Arnaud
At first, I kept them save in organised maps, but after a while I just stored them in maps.
I also bought some sketch books, that way the designs are organised chronicle.
But after all these years, I made that much designs, I hardly can find a particular one when I need one, I even don’t know where to look for or if I already made that particular design.
At first, I thought it would be great stuff after I’m gone, that those designs would be a treasure.
Now I’m thinking that it is too much information for those who come after me. I also found out that we only can live our own live, looking at photos we made some decades in the past. Perhaps once in a year we look at photos our grandparents and parents made.
Yes one could be lucky, only having a few hundreds photos illustrating one’s history. But my “artistic†family not only made thousands photos, they also made sketches, paintings and sculptures. They had a diary book every year whit illustrations and so on. They just illustrated their own history.
My problem is that I even can’t read my own history being so productive by storing it and still storing more by making designs, making some cuts, making thousands jewellery, writing down diary’s, and so on.
I also kept all the designs my 5 children made when they where kids.
So for some years, I don’t store all of my designs anymore, as to me it makes no sense. Yes if I would be famous perhaps it would have more value to others, but I’m only a bit famous.
So what I did is, I used a scanner and stored the designs I liked the most. I have some Hard Disk’s to store all of that as a backup.
But I’m interested to know how all of you have organised the designs and photos you made.
Arnaud
