See restrictions as games

Of course you know that Restrictions-Make-You-More-Creative, but it can be difficult to allow yourself to dive into restrictions. One way to reframe this is to see restrictions as rules in a game. You aren’t expecting a result, instead you are playing a game and seeing what happens.

References

• Ross-Sutherland often describes his process this way.
• This was evident in this-is-what-you-get-stanley-donwood-and-thom-yorke-exhibition, with a challenge not to use the undo function on a computer. This resulted in the art for OK Computer