Hey,
Unbelievably, I am back to graphic design.
How? Easy. I came across my work for the flower diagram from ‘What Color is Your Parachute?’, an exercise that helps you figure out what you want to do in your career. What I discovered was two entries that made my heart soar, once again, for graphic design:
- Making that poster for work.
This was a fun one. I decided what I wanted to do first. I had my concept picked out for me. Then I picked out pictures for locations I wanted to use, materials. Then I cut them out to emphasize the best parts of them. Then I chose a design that they should be arranged in. God, it was fun! I placed them in an arrangement, then wrote to fill in spaces. I spent some time arranging everything so that it looked perfect, then I got some advice about finishing touches on it to complete it. Woo!!!!!!!!!!!
Skills: using my hands, having great finger dexterity, imagining, inventing, creating, or designing new ideas, appraising, evaluating, following through, getting things done, producing
- Making that card for my friend’s birthday.
This one was also a lot of fun. First, I got out materials to use. I chose magazine material and brought out scissors, tape, paper and some pencil crayons. I spent a bit of time figuring out what images I would use. I selected colours and designs, pencil crayoning in what I wanted to. Then I taped stuff on, added an inside card, with written content and rather random magazine cut-out content. I added finishing touches, made a card and took a picture of it for memory’s sake. Woo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Skills: planning, laying out a step-by-step process for achieving a goal, visualizing, drawing, creating a work of art
Both entries excite me so much! God, it would be so interesting to do graphic design work, wouldn’t it? It’s so complicated. It’s so much more work to figure out graphic design. I am lacking in a lot of respects but it’s just soo good. So much better than writing, I am sorry to say. Writing is awesome and I love it too but… but of course, I cannot choose one or the other. It seems I am stuck, oh, forever stuck! It’s beautiful in a way. If I could just work forward from here that would be amazing.
What is going to be different about tonight? Well, tonight I will do a collage of myself. I am going to try to have as fun a time as possible with graphic design as much as possible! I just have to keep on reminding myself! That is my challenge!
