Advice for New Designers
15 Responses to Advice for New Designers
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Nicole Ioma says:
Perfect timing. I really needed to hear this, my perspective has gotten a little off. Thanks!
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lovely words ~♥!!
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All we LEARNED in school was process. I felt like I had a great grasp on process when I graduated.
The issue for me has been getting my employer to understand that I need information to do my job. They seem to think that ideas just appear out of no where, or that I automatically know everything about a product or audience by virtue of working for them. They think I am a mind reader.
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Great words
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february says:
This is a brilliant quote. I remember reading it in one of your older posts and I can pretty much say it saved me from the almost constant state of what I call the “design misery” (it’s been with me for so long I even have a name for it). Can’t thank you enough for this!:)
I have produced several commissions as a freelancer which came out rather well and professional, and at the university (I’m in the last year) my works have in most cases gotten good grades and even recognition. It’s just that all these times there have been an incredible amount of time, labor, fear and self doubt involved in the process. I have always felt it shouldn’t be this way, it’s not a “legal” way to work, and I better not let anybody know about that.
There’s just not enough info about how it works for other designers, what the process is like, what it should be like.
This quote gives a direct and comforting answer.
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sdblaine says:
Man, this quote hits close to home for anyone learning a craft.
As some trying to beef up basic skills, unlearn bad habits, and just follow through on projects so I can get what I need to out of them… the slippery slope of the learning has/is being a bitch.
I have the ideas, the creativity, the humor. But after the third of fifth try? The stomach is to acidy for any more coffee and there’s no more hair to yank on.
It’s so important to learn the basics, but also to have people to share your projects with. Friends to laugh with you when it just completely sucks butt and everyone knows it.
To feel all right about making mistakes.
Many of them all at once or in a terrible chain reaction, if the world is feeling particularly generous that day.
But if it’s something you really enjoy doing?
Totally worth it.
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AMEN sista!
Somewhere I heard/read:
“I can always spot a great design. But dont ask me to do it.” -
it’s always good to be reminded that things take HARD WORK, no matter what craft a person is in. i always have to stop and remind myself this (in my writing). things are never as easy as they seem.
the person who mentioned good friends to laugh at things with, to talk things out with, i totally agree with you. 110%
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This is soooooooo true.
Design is so painful at times. Especially with all the comparisons and pointing.
But when understood, I love the depths of it. -
Thanks for posting this. I needed to read it
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Jess: YES! So true.
melissa dominic: Exactly. I think that sometimes people that aren’t involved in the process think it’s like magic. When really, it takes a ton of work to make something look effortless!
sdblaine: I love your insight.
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Pingback: teknikaldesign.com — Saul Bass quote on “the process”
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Doubly true of fashion design.
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Perfect.
A lecturer of mine shared this: “There are no good writers, only good re-writers.” Learning the process is incredibly valuable.
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