Vision of a Graphic Designer

This blog post will explain how becoming a growing graphic designer has changed my mind and vision about the things I see around me on a daily basis.

As a graphic designer, I feel that is is my job to change how people see things through the use of image, type and design, I want to do this by not only expressing my own self, but expressing the visions of others.

I feel though that I should explain that ever since I made the choice to become a constantly growing graphic designer, I have learnt more and more everyday, and I will carry on learning more and more as each day passes, my mind and vision will change, including the way I see things. This is something that excites me, because personally I never want to reach the a point in my life where there is nothing else to learn as a designer. To keep myself satisfied, there will always have to be something new, whether that's by chance encounter or self drive.

Graphic design gives me the vision to appreciate 'good' design work, something that is thought provoking or eye catching. However at the same time it gives me the vision to be able to turn my nose at badly designed pieces of work. Design that has 'screams', no thought or effort. Design that looks like someone has thrown a bunch of shapes and colour together, only to hope for the best and use the design whether or not it is aesthetically pleasing. There comes a point where that when I see products or advertisement designed so badly, it angers and frustrates me until I find myself going on a rant in my mind about the 'crappy decision making', during the creation process of this design.

One day I was walking with a friend in an open market, a place that obviously lacked modern or innovative designed advertisement, label designs, pretty much anything that had the intention to 'catch your eye', really didn't.

So when I saw all of this badly created art and design I instantly began to ask myself 'who designed that..?', 'how the hell did they think that was okay to use?'. Making negative comments in my mind about the designer who created it, what I would say and ask him if we ever met.

Instead, I start going on a rant to my friend about the design of what we were looking at, and probably going into far too much detail as to 'why' this work was so bad. My friend couldn't understand why I was getting so annoyed, but I knew exactly what I was talking about. This is because a graphic designer learns to understand what looks good and what doesn't.

The point I want to make is that as a graphic designer, I love being able to look at a piece of design, break it down and really appreciate the effort and thought that went into it, but at the same time, it has given mt the ability to over react negatively when it comes to my own view of 'bad' graphic design.