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[Minaa]

Hello there dear Stakers! I am in search of Designers here! I myself am a Designer (in my free time) so tell me what ever you want to say about designing! I am currently into Graphic design. Suggestions, tips, tricks, stories, whatever comes to your mind. 

[JacksonPalmer]

Primedicers? Copy/Paste?

 

I am doing graphic design in an unprofessional hobby way since over 10 years now already. I like to design banners and logos and wallpapers and that kind of stuff. It also helped me a lot to get amazing meme-creating skills. Always had a lot of fun with it, but never really got into the harder stuff like 3D effects, animations or videos. 

[Minaa]

On 1/3/2021 at 2:45 PM, JacksonPalmer said:

Primedicers? Copy/Paste?

 

I am doing graphic design in an unprofessional hobby way since over 10 years now already. I like to design banners and logos and wallpapers and that kind of stuff. It also helped me a lot to get amazing meme-creating skills. Always had a lot of fun with it, but never really got into the harder stuff like 3D effects, animations or videos. 

Hehe you are right, I did! 😁
As long as you do it because you like it I suppose you can fully enjoy it :) There is endless amount of stuff online to learn from . It is even hard to just choose which one to turn to, everything is so interesting :)

[jesantana]

Eye training is cool, just dig it in general try to figure out for yourself why did he put that line there?  on stuff you like and know worked in context. For instance : WOW   that was a bold choice Maurits Cornelis , why would you do that? how come im so not clever to immediately see it, help me out book , tell me why Escher might have done that.

For me , visual language is extremely fast in the sense our brain is kinda conceived to rapidly try to identify patterns, so it figures that making a conscious effort to have purpose or at least some kind of explanation or excuse for every single little detail you create tends to yield better and more happy results.

It might sound a bit obsessive and I understand you could achieve the same by being wickedly inspired or talented (or using lsd or anything dmt related) and using some other less conscious effort or process , regardless of the type of flow , generally the results the same, things that click , click for a reason.

Reason is in part determined by the self but one could argue that the visual language is one of the most developed ones on average so knowingly or not your average consumer is super smart , you can find  far more consensus visually that you would do with sound . -You can blame early survival for that i guess-.  ( Language and perceptual categorisation by Jules Davidoff is a fun read).

There is a myriad of interesting and challenging topics you can dig into from  trying to figure out if stuff you hear often is really true for you , like there are no straight lines in nature or  Goethes theory about color is outdated.

Sorry for the long ramble, that advice was really helpful for me and I wanted to try and make it so for others, i hope im not too dumb with word and some of it got thru , best of luck.

[Minaa]

1 hour ago, jesantana said:

Eye training is cool, just dig it in general try to figure out for yourself why did he put that line there?  on stuff you like and know worked in context. For instance : WOW   that was a bold choice Maurits Cornelis , why would you do that? how come im so not clever to immediately see it, help me out book , tell me why Escher might have done that.

For me , visual language is extremely fast in the sense our brain is kinda conceived to rapidly try to identify patterns, so it figures that making a conscious effort to have purpose or at least some kind of explanation or excuse for every single little detail you create tends to yield better and more happy results.

It might sound a bit obsessive and I understand you could achieve the same by being wickedly inspired or talented (or using lsd or anything dmt related) and using some other less conscious effort or process , regardless of the type of flow , generally the results the same, things that click , click for a reason.

Reason is in part determined by the self but one could argue that the visual language is one of the most developed ones on average so knowingly or not your average consumer is super smart , you can find  far more consensus visually that you would do with sound . -You can blame early survival for that i guess-.  ( Language and perceptual categorisation by Jules Davidoff is a fun read).

There is a myriad of interesting and challenging topics you can dig into from  trying to figure out if stuff you hear often is really true for you , like there are no straight lines in nature or  Goethes theory about color is outdated.

Sorry for the long ramble, that advice was really helpful for me and I wanted to try and make it so for others, i hope im not too dumb with word and some of it got thru , best of luck.

"Art is the universal language of the soul" someone said once  Sometimes when you see a particular type of creation by someone, you can see there is infinite possibilities in what this life offers  I will happily go through these items you talk about. Thank you for this message  🎨