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Read the second question

Here’s an interview with Jeffrey Veen [Digital Web Magazine] - the second question asks

Digital Web: How can limited resources, such as tight deadlines and slim budgets, help a designer?

I dunno what Veen’s answer to that is (I ran over to post this before reading it), but the question itself made me think of something I heard many years ago. I want to attribute the sentiment to Beethoven, but I could (easily) be wrong… Regardless, some composer or poet was once asked how they could create freely when the constraints of a particular form were rigidly imposed upon them (concerto form, the sestina, etc.). The artist answered that the restraints actually encouraged the creative process, rather than limiting it. I’ve never quite fully grasped that idea - I keep thinking I’ve finally understood it, then it slips away - but the sentiment seems applicable here.