As a Designer

Our beliefs, time, money, and actions are all being fought over with design as the arsenal. The graphic designer learns how to participate in this fight through education, intuition, creativity, and technical skills. Though helpful, a formal education in design is not what is meant here. The education needed is more about understanding the previously mentioned rules we are working with. Intuition is required in order to know when it is appropriate to adjust or disregard these rules. Creativity is needed because redundancy will not break through the wall into the internal world. Technical skills are essential because poor craft reduces credibility. This idea of the world as an arena is a reoccurring theme in The Cheese Monkeys, and the importance of education, intuition, creativity, and technical skills have been further reinforced to us through the grading process and classroom discussions in Graphic Design

This rhetorical attribution to design, challenges interesting areas of debate regarding the negation between design and the world. Design is seen as ..

The document is officially published on October 14, 2015 and posted on the LinkedIn blog page. The discipline of this document would be used in a journal that is related to any field of design. Design students and professions would use this document for building self-esteem and the inspiration for understanding designers’ difficulties in the reality.

To sum everything up, I think you had us read a book about design students struggling, losing sleep, and going through crazy scenarios in their life to help us. To help us see that this is something that can be done, to help us see that even though we may get discouraged we are still good designers, and to help us see that we shouldn’t give up, even when you make us set our own projects on fire, or lose part of a finger the night before a projects due. We may not be special in what we’re going through, but we can overcome it and be molded into great, innovative, and brilliant

I want to dedicate this paragraph to how much I actually enjoyed design thinking for this project and this project only. I know I was kind of a “negative nelly” about the whole process, but it really helped me this time. From the very beginning it helped keep a clear focus on what the goal of the project was and who our consumers would be. The empathy part opened my eyes and was able to relate to those who are stuck on crutches. I had to deal with them the whole day, and

Not only that his career in the design field was becoming greater and greater every day, but also his job as a writer. He was only thirty-three when he sat down and thought of writing his classic book, Thoughts on Design, which turned out to be one of his best ones yet. Even though he was young at the moment and he had not achieved all the great successes that he had later on in his life, he was ready to write the book. Rand admitted, however, that he was insecure as a writer but that his passion for the subject was the only thing that was keeping him going. At the same time, he was learning so much from his day job on Madison Avenue that it is important to say more with fewer words, which he successfully incorporated in his Thoughts on Design

The title of Michael McDonough’s talk is Cradle to Cradle Design. Mr. McDonough is an architect and his talk focuses on the problem of how our Earth and our people are being hurt because the products we are designing are not safe or healthy. He starts by the talk referencing Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” which brings up the possibility that we might kill all of the birds. He then talks about what he thinks is the fundamental issue, which is that design is a sign of human intentions. He thinks that we need to evaluate our designs given that we are the dominant species on the Earth and that we are the stewards of the Earth – in other words, we should be taking care of the Earth. He thinks that designers should be asking how can we create world peace and save the environment when we build things. Instead of starting with this question, designers of today don’t seem to have a plan. And the result of having no plan is tragedy, like global warming and mercury poisoning of children from coal plants.

Several existing Design Activism case studies were reviewed, in order to examine the process followed, the tools used, and to understand the impact on society.

When considering the qualities I believe to be necessary for succeeding as a designer in the College of Education’s Learning Resources Center, I am reminded of Robert Fulghum’s book titled, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Attributes I learned early on have stood me well over the years as a professional designer.

Inefficient storytelling: Surveys are mainly useful when scope is needed and context is unnecessary, but design requires the opposite. To properly design a product one needs a thorough understanding of the client, it’s needs and desires, something that can only be gained through in depth discussion.

After reading chapter 1, 2, 12 & 13, in The Language of Graphic Design, each chapter taught me various things.

“Yale is the place that endowed me with the confidence and the grand scope of the world that a young designer needed to excel and make a difference in the real world.” – Yansong Ma. Yale University (M.Arch ’02).

In today’s world, where information is always at our fingertips or in our pockets, many are considering alternative methods of education. Many have taught themselves brand new skill sets with a few simple Google searches, and people in all professions are benefitting from the influx of readily available information. Such advances in technology, combined with the rising costs of higher education are causing many to wonder if formal education is a necessity, especially in the creative professions. While self-study is admirable, and often necessary, it is important not to overlook the values and benefits of receiving a formal design education.

I believe that I am needed as a thinker of different ‘thoughts’, and as a designer my goal is to provide communication with specific

I was familiarised with Nettie Scriven through the Make/Believe exhibition and her collaboration with Nottingham Trent University. I also worked closely with this designer during my placement work and small freelance jobs which has given me “Real world experience” and first hand observations and discussions.