As a design student, I understand the basic principles of design, so far. I believe that is how much you can learn from a college or university, is the basics and then you have to push yourself.
It is just a starting point, when you leave college. You have to keep it going if you don’t want to become useless… I’ve done this, I took a break, about three weeks. Not touching a design project, not doing anything about design, and you begin to lose something…
You begin to lose the attitude of correcting yourself, little things like picking the wrong font e.g. comic Sans – which I get a lot of bother by my fellow students and lecturers for even bringing this font up, but they do not know why I like it… Anyway that’s another blog topic for another time “the love of comic sans” (wonder how that’s going to go down with my lecturers)
It’s like exercising, you can’t do it once every week, expecting you to improve. You have to constantly work on it, building yourself up. When you take a break from design you lose the flow that you are a used to being in, and it is much harder to start back even after three weeks.
So even if you are wanted to take a break from design, keep a daily notebook and just do doodle drawings, so you can keep the design flow but not be constantly thinking about it.
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