I’m taking this graphic design history class and I’m finding a lot about how graphic design has transform and mutated throughout the years. I’m learning about its purposes and its potential which is awesome. However, I am a little bummed that a lot of the most revolutionary designers come from a background that is mostly self-taught and almost from an amateur’s standpoint. Something I kind of was proud of when thinking about my background and how I came to do graphic design. Now though, going to school I feel like this is all going to just drag me down. Not that I hope to be some kind of revolutionary designer but I already feel that all this knowledge (in some ways is good) is making me second guess things I would’ve done anyway (in terms of design work.) I find myself over thinking a process and going through more revisions that I might need to. I do have to remember that what I’m studying for is for commercial work, stuff that generally needs to stay safe, but smart; something I think I need to work on, I need to learn how to design smart, less so intuition and aesthetic driven.
I already feel as if I’m being taught to design in such an unnatural fashion, it makes me sort of uncomfortable. Some say that is a good thing, I still have my doubts.