Preventing Repetitive Designs?

Is there anything that you guys do when your faced with a new project that will help you get out of the same old curves and design styles that you alwayse use?

I find that everthing I do is similar, yea - its my style but it seems like other designers can be more versitile.

Thanks

Sometimes, its not a single person project. Someone may story board the whole design, which another will digitally design it.

I take a shopping cart, find a steep street with a wall at the end, get in the cart, and push myself down. After the impact pretty much any idea is new.

Just as it is with musicians when others debate about the reasons for their popularity, visual artists must come to terms with these things, among others:

Is my art being accepted because people like and feel comfortable with my individual style? Are there others who only like my work because I have come to light in the public eye through commercial success?

Will they still like what I do if I make abrupt changes just to suit a consumer (client, customer, anybody who pays me for my work)? Does it matter WHY I make the changes (Weighing commercial viability against keeping true to your own sense of style)? How do I feel about, and on which side of the fence do I lean toward on the money versus artistic integrity debate?

What is most important to me: Refining my style and putting it out there to see where it will stick to the walls of like minded consumers of my product, or should I become brilliantly adept at conforming my talents to what those who are paying my bills would like me to do for them?

It's a sticky, labyrinthian spiderweb of a philosophical conundrum that only you can decide upon.

What do YOU feel is best, Shane?

Are you tough enough to stick by your decisions, come what may?