Tag: inspirational

Don’t Get too Comfortable

I really enjoyed this ted talk. Because he talked about not getting comfortable. In the sense of him sleeping on the floor beside his bed. Because if you always do the same thing you will continue to get the same results. In other words you will feel Ok my current situation is good so therefore I do not need to strive for more.

If you are currently  a web designer or a graphic designer and you’ve gotten comfortable try new things for your career. Maybe you could take up illustration to combine with your current skills. Never stop striving for more and to become more. But the main thing to ask yourself is if you want to become more and have more.

Don’t die wondering

If you are hesitant about doing anything in your life I recommend you to ask yourself what am I going to do if I don’t attempt such a thing. I learned that life really is short and we are not put here to stay. So therefore why settle for just doing what society expects us to or family.

This year has been moving pretty swiftly. I mean we are almost through January and what are you doing to make this year better then the next and or the previous year?

If you have a vision follow it

Belief

Whenever we have a vision I know that it can be hard for some people to take action. Then a month or so later they still have not made any change. The same thing can be said for someone wanting to be a freelancer and never contacting clients. When honestly its easy and also easy not to do.

You may sit at work or in class and have ideas for products to create. The question I’m wondering is why have you not made them? Now this day in age its so easy to start a business or learn something you do not know quickly. There is also no problem that you are having that someone else has not had. Stop being a consumer and start being a producer.

There may be at times people that want you to do the normal thing. Which is getting a Job and then live a normal life. Not saying doing so is bad but you have to be honest with yourself. This is not for everyone to do because honestly not everyone could deal with what comes of this.

So from now on if you have a vision of something that you want to create stop wishful thinking and take action. Taking action simply starts with setting goals that will push you in the direction you want to go. You can do it if you believe.

Working a Day Job While Pursuing your career

An Utterly Frustrated Jabari

I am not sure if some may be against doing this. But this is currently my situation. I work part time while searching and applying to design jobs. When I first graduated I thought everything would be easy peasy. Even though I am moving to another state so I will get a Job there.

Quickly you’ll learn that you eventually will have to do what you have to do to make it. Because you can graduate from college and think I am only going to do what I have went to school. While some of you may have the ability to do that and others that do not.

While working a day Job and designing at night do not lose focus. Because the system that is created it will take away your dreams. You could end up getting addicted to a steady paycheck and then end up getting comfortable. Once your comfortable in your position if its a place you are just at to pass time while pursuing an actual career you may get tired of chasing that dream Job.

You have to use what you learn from your day job and how you can apply it to your career. I for one always have looked at what can I learn from working this Job that is just to pay the bills while I get the position I truly desire?

So remember if its easy everyone would do it and that the world owes you nothing. Get out there and hustle and show that you want the position.

Aaron Draplins 50 ways to ruin your career

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These 50 ways to ruin your career will help you more then you can imagine. They are also great life skills that many never get taught until they find out through many different life situations.

1. Enjoy the goddamned moment
2. Love where you are from
3. Move somewhere wild
4. Frequent eateries that use decimal points in their menus
5. Know Your Fucking Condiments
6. Get out there and get dirty
7. And then, share what you find
8. Work with yer friends
9. Know yer tools and be thankful they exist
10. Go wherever they’ll send you
11. Shed any goddamned sense of entitlement
12. Provide proof of bonafide graphic art existence using multimedia
13. Fight for the long dogs
14. Lose the crutch
15. Exhibit a little humility
16. Quit spending yer money on bullshit
17. Be wary of certain business professionals
18. Pay of those fucking school loans already
19. Laugh at stuff
20. Turn yer back on organized sports
21. Dreamp up a plan
22. Get cosmic
23. Take color theory seriously
24. Make room for some magic
25. Say what you mean
26. Get it on vinyl
27. Be ready for when they call you up to the big leagues
28. Learn an instrument
29. Be the client
30. Go by car
31. Know what really matters in the end
32. Buy things made in America
33. Question stuff constantly
34. Know who’s got the power
35. Collect cool shit
36. Grab yer social media by the throat
37. Savor the little stuff
38. Support yer local rock bands
39. Know all the shades of being “professional”
40. Don’t worry about awards
41. Quit saying the word, “dude”
42. Make big ass posters
43. Go pantless
44. Get free
45. Treat the UPS guy, mail lady and printing pressman like they are gold
46. Know what you love
47. And don’t forget about the things you hate
48. Learn to roll with the good, bad and the ugly.
49. Work hard and love this shit
50. Be thankful for everything

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Inspirational Quotes on Design

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

— Bruno Munari

Design is intelligence made visible.

– Don Newgren

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent Van Gogh

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

– Massimo Vignelli

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations

– Paul Rand

Advertising doesn¹t create a product advantage. It can only convey it

– William Bernbach

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

– Jan Tschichold

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.

– Paola Antonelli

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

– Steve Jobs

Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.

– Noreen Morioka