work of interest

'They are gone'-personal work

They are gone 

(2nd year work)

What is Graphic Design for me

What is graphic design for me booklet

A5 size

Although I've been studying Graphic design for about 2 years so far, funny enough that I never actually sat down and  questioned myself what graphic design is for me. I have to admit the fact that I am not really 'thinker' and I don't consider myself to be independent on the thought and decisions that I make in general and it is really starting (or it has been) to reflect through my work. As I progressed towards 3rd year, I feel like it is becoming more and more challenging and more confusing but as Annegrette said today, may be it is a good sign for being like this. Although it sounds so tragic..:(

Anyways, on this brief in general, I had some negative feedbacks and I have to admit that I haven't really thought into the thinking behind it and only concentrated on the visual presentation. The whole idea was though I reflected the aim of the being successful graphic design to be to able to please the viewers with communication through visual language. Some argued that we, as a graphic designer, can not satisfy the whole crowd and have to concentrate on the message that we want to portray to people out there and additionally, not necessarily have to please everyone which is impossible anyways. The important fact that I picked on today was that I have to concentrate on finding my audience and be myself with the style of work I produce. Also, the conversation we had in class on the whole was interesting facts that I've been always questioned myself such as;

• Finding a style of your work (eg. so that when you open a magazine everyone would recognise my work)
• How to keep a balance between commercial without losing your style

In the end, we are aware of the fact that we have to graduate next year and jump into an industry at some point. Then, should we concentrate on our design work produced in college unto the expectations they want? or should we keep our interest and continue with our exploration of work ignoring these facts?  The feedbacks in class seems to be that since we are in college and learning, we shouldn't really consider about commercial side and only have to concentrate on WHAT WE WANT. But is it really so?

About the finding a style of your work question, one of the pupil said that every work we produce embodied the style of our own even we don't recognise it. 


There is no right and wrong on this question obviously, but for now my advice for myself would be focus on the content and really thoroughly study it first before I think about how to look good in visual presentation.