fDylan has 7 post(s)

What draws me into graphic design is just that I’m a very visual person and I absolutely need to have some form of career where i can get involved with visual things of any kind. I thought about numerous academic routes i could go down to fulfill this passion. At first i decided to major in computer science as i have always been interested in making videogames, but then the realized the amount of nitty gritty technical stuff i had to learn before i could get to anything fun like working with computer graphics just wasn’t worth spending four years in college. After leaving computer science, i flip-flopped between architecture, product design, and studio art. I eventually landed on graphic design because i figured that as a major, it would have a nice emphasis of on working on visual things, while being balanced out by the fact that it is a fairly transmutable skill, unlike probably studio art. Also the notion of taking images and repurposing them for other motives is a really appealing one to me. It’s always entertaining for me to think about what something means if taken outside of its natural context. Like what if an Olympics took place underwater, or inside of a department store, or at my house. It would completely change people’s perception of the event. The ability to play on perception and expectation is a pretty intriguing prospect to me.

Two of the graphic design fields that have peaked my interest would be environmental design and advertising. I might be able to appreciate environmental design because I like the restriction of designing for a physical space. I enjoy thinking about how to cater to demands of a facility while keeping a consistent and appealing aesthetic motif. As for advertising design, i admire the tight interplay between text and image. I feel like making a good advertisement might be like making a comic that tells it’s story in the course of a single panel. One of my favorite things about advertisement is how it’s never just about what is there, but what isn’t. A good advertisement should instantly grab your attention and afford the viewer space to continue thinking about design after they’ve looked over it.