Am I a bad designer?
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- ukit0
Well, a lot of this isn't such a mystery. Take a look at how designers that you think are good have approached a similar project. What's the difference between their work and yours? Some of it is creative ingenuity that can't be easily duplicated, but a lot of it also simply comes from following a few simple basic principles.
Do you have an understanding of good typography? Do you use a grid when you design? Do you use a scale when selecting your type sizes? Do you choose your color scheme based on some kind of basic color theory?
None of these things will necessarily lead to an especially inspired design, but they can at least lead to a certain baseline quality of decent design. If you aren't doing these things, it's time to stop complaining and worrying about your lack of skill in some abstract sense, and start learning and applying these basic principles.
- i sound like a pompous asshole.ukit
- true words don't always come out smelling like roses :-)identity
- I think it's all great stuff. You can't really sugar-coat with design, because everybodyvisual_infection
- Dare I shit out of my mouth and call it evolution?ukit
- thinks they are a designer. Computer + PS = DESIGNER! So no, I don't think you sound pompus.visual_infection
- Let me put it this way, hundreds of years ago people thought of design (or maybe art) as a craft that was supposed to be learnedukit
- to be learned. Nowadays people fall into the trap of thinking it's all individual genius.ukit