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...
When you're a creative, you get stuck in your head very quickly, and it is very hard to remove yourself from the situation at hand, and come up with something new. When you're surfing the web viewing other designs, subconsciously you are remembering the designs that are in front of you, when you are developing your logo, subconsciously you think you...
Programming is anyone's worst nightmare.
I digest, it is not one horrible project but it is a self-demanding task. I did do programming in school so I do have a background knowledge of programming, coding, working with websites, it was one of the reasons that I did not want to go into this part, because I knew what I was in for.
But...
Design nowadays is all digital, a lot of professional designers use only computer visuals. I understand why they choose to go down this route, but honestly I feel that you will lose a lot of design potential when you don't work in sketchbook and solely work on a computer screen. Nowadays some designers don't even print out for proof checks, I...