The Creator

Design. So many people, teachers and professors alike, try to teach such a skill as design. They swamp the minds of youth with their own ideas, perspectives and ways to create and invent. With me, I was born into it. I don’t believe that you can really “teach” the whole theory and idea of design. I believe the perspective, the inspiration, the ideas and understanding is born into you. Some people just have that extra sense for color and movement. I am that person.

Ever since 7th grade, I became fascinated with graphic design. I remember sitting there at my desk, coding neopets website layouts in HTML or uploading scanned drawings of pokemon. I remember teaching myself the fundamentals and basics of the web. I find myself, here, 7 years later in college doing what I started back then. It became a passion of mine, something I loved to do. I would spend countless hours making up projects to further me in my own approach to design. However, I don’t believe these experiences can be taught. I believe a feel is needed to be developed, an understanding. When you look around you, billboards, posters, flyers, etc, do you see an object? or a design? Do you analyze it inside your head? Does it make you think? That, is what truly makes a design well, a design.

From personal experiences, hands on is the only way to learn, to develop. Design involves trial and error. It involves a process, a development of an idea. It involves planning and productivity. Most of all, it involves the mind. It is that gift, of taking an idea or sketch on paper and by building process, creating a design in which really speaks. That is the true beauty of design. That is why I always run with the catch phrase for Tylonproducts “Where imagination becomes reality”. It is the soul truth behind design.

I am also a non believer of critique. Where it is true, some designs may need guidance, critique is a harsh word. It takes away from the designer. Critique is only our personal opinion on what WE think is design or what WE would have done, where as that design was specifically chosen and designed by a designer, whom thought of that particular design. I think critique only destroys originality. What may appeal to my tastes, may not appeal to yours. Each and every person is different. Who is to say, what exactly is a bad design or a good design anymore? What may look good to me, may look bad to you. It all comes down to individuality and audiences. Every audience is different, as so is every eye.