I want to be a "REAL" designer
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You don't need "tools" to learn how to design. They help express and execute, but if you can't sketch it out it'll never get too far.
School is the most obvious way to learn to design. Better the school, better chances you'll get "good". Plenty of not-so-good designers making a living out there, though, so you can be "real" w/o necessarily being great.
Buy some books and read about design. There's some good ones out there.
Start building a library of examples of what "good" is. You cannot, imho, get "good" w/o knowing what "good" is and why.
School, again, is the best/fastest way to get good. But you need a good school, otherwise you'll just be learning technical skills you can learn on Lynda.com or YouTube.
Lastly, you've got a long ways to go before you can call yourself "old". You'll understand later, trust me.
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- Would love book recommendations. Thanks.mtthwsms
- People like to start with the analog designers as they defined modern design along with the world of advertising at the turn of the century.monospaced
- Take a look at summer programs, too. I went to RISD for a summer class, it was just amazing. Better doing that than some random community collegeformed
- On the other hand, you can go to the best design school on earth, and still be mediocre, so that doesn't guarantee anything.Miguex
- True. I believe good design partly stems from some sort of natural talent. That was clear in school, especially.monospaced