Month: August 2012

Career Advice – Graphic and Creative Designers and Directors

Great Advice to anyone needing a direction on how to go about getting a career in the design industry. Because I personally want to live in New York and be a designer for a couple of years and then move to london and be a designer there for awhile. I am personally fascinated by the different ways of thinking and approaches to design.

Whats the best advice you’ve gotten about being a designer?

Is Spec Work Evil? The Online Creative Community – SXSWi 2009

I’ve been a victim of being sucked into the spec work field. But I do it mainly so I will be able to have the experience and to add it for my resume. But I do agree that it devalues the profession of design. There are sooo many sites that have crowd sourcing for design work. Which is pretty pathetic and just another business model. But I do not have a problem helping someone out with design work as long as they we will work out a barter system that will help each other out.

Is the Internet Ruining Design?

 

I feel with the internet it can definitely have a great impact on how a design can turn out to be. Because everything is so available to be seen. I still force myself to not depend on the internet as much as I used to for inspiration when I first started designing. Because if you depend to learn how someone else has done a design how will you ever learn how to think and create your own work?

Lee Clow & Steve Hayden on Steve Jobs & Apple

 

TBWA Chiat day did a remarkable job working with Steve Jobs and apple. The commercial think different still inspires me every time I watch it.

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs