Who am I? What do I want to become?
At present I am studying Graphic Design and the reason for this is a….
I have always been a very indecisive person. Through out school I followed a trend of excelling in Mathematics, Science, Art and design. So this lead me to take these courses on further to A-Level but I became lost and my decisions changed. Still following my love for Art and Design I moved to a foundation course. Here I was given the opportunities to experiment and discovered new interests, however during the second year I stuck to my original passion and focused on Graphic design. Now progressing with Graphics at University; I have now studied Graphic design at three different institutes, each time taught very differently resulting in many different forms of inspiration. It was for this reason I decided to continue with Graphic Design. As much as for one reason it can be progressed onto many different industries; from illustration to advertising for example, leaving my career options still open. It is also a subject in which I feel I will never stop learning from. To a form in which I can understand, I enjoy learning. Design involves so much as a subject but also in reality. Everything created consists of some form of design, and everything designed usually gets developed; there fore, is a design ever finished? I don’t think so.
As much as I would say that this project (Ten/Measurement) has been one of the most challenging briefs I have worked on. I would certainly say it has had a very substantial effect on me. The sheer size of the project encouraged me to make and progress with decisions, and also helped me to develop my knowledge and skills within computer graphics. Up until now I have found working with software such as the Adobe Suite quite challenging as I only came across it towards the end of college, having been taught on different software previously to that. Discovering this software at such a late stage within my education has resulted in me almost completely having to teach myself how to use it. This project however gave me the time and the encouragement to work progressively within the programs to design and develop my ideas. This taught me that it does indeed take practice and over time it will become familiar and I feel that my next brief will almost certainly benefit from this.
To answer the question, Who am I? As a designer, I’m not sure. I feel I am still trying to find myself within the world of design. I feel that this project has had both a positive and a negative effect on me. In a negative way I still don’t quite believe in myself and there fore lack in confidence with my work. Although positively I have discovered a lot from this project; whether it being influenced by new and different designers and design movements or developing my skills over a wider area. I know that I will continually learn from the industry, even when I choose upon a career, but right now I feel I have so much more to discover there fore it would be incorrect to say ‘Who am I’ as I am forever changing my mind but the more I learn the more confident I become, consequently becoming a more decisive person.
