How to be a good designer
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- Llyod
I'm a good designer. You know how I became one? I was born with the ability. I know what looks good and what doesn't look good. This cannot be taught. Thoughts?
- ********0
How to be a good designer?... leave this board immediately would be a good start.
- jimzyk0
He does have a small penis, i can tell.
He was born with a small penis.
This cannot be taught.
Thought?
- CALLES0
maybe you should concentrate in your people skills since you have the designer part down
- tank020
to black and white.
good & not good in our job is often a mix between taste,
rules and topic. it tends do very subjective, just ask
rybo, our rockstar designer.
- designbot0
There was a discussion about this in another thread. My proposition is that designers like to think they are "born creative", and perhaps some have an edge. But personally, anyone can learn design, and anyone can learn art and be good. I do wonder if you are trained to be an artist/designer if your stuff would come off mechanical though. Like anyone could dress in designer clothes if they had the money, but that doesn't give them class or style.
- bulletfactory0
principles and techniques can be taught - divine proportions, grids, texture, rhythm, repetition, color, line, etc - using them effectively is a different story. There is something more to it than just 'knowing' what looks good to be a good designer. imo - explaining why it looks good makes you a good designer.
- ********0
post your shit so I can rip it
- Jnr_Madison0
I think it's ok as long as you've never done web banners for Yahoo!
- ********0
design isn't a creative thing. i hate people referring to 'creatives' when they're usually designers, like 90% of design is not creative.
- robotron3k0
design talent is pretty much an innate ability and some skills can be taught to improve those abilities. But little black glasses and turtleneck sweaters need to be purchased.
- Being Asian helps tooukit
- as designer stereotypes goe, i have an asian girlfriend ;)tank02
- def. being asian makes you hot designer now a days...robotron3k
- ukit0
I think you have it backwards. Knowing "what looks good and what doesn't look good" can be learned.
The ability to come up with original ideas and make stuff look good is the part you are born with.
- ********0
everything you need to know can be learned from the Provocatively Bold Art Direction guy
- ********0
your not a good designer
- nor are you a good spellerukit
- you got that right********
- ribit0
A lot of it can be taught... Our teachers in our Industrial Design course told us (something like) that they couldn't teach us basic creativity, but they could certainly teach us skills, strategy, how to draw, how to develop form, hone our critical eye, teach us how to discuss design, design history and how to learn from it, stuff like that...
- ********0
Having a gold membership card at Template Monster doesn't qualify you as a designer.
- ukit0
In the end it boils down to this: rybo or philjohns?
- ********0
I know someone with a masters degree in a well known art school and her designs are terrible.
- she's probably an ECD at a large agency in NYC as well...robotron3k
- there's no guarantees... (maybe they should be able to take the degree back?)ribit