Learn graphic design

“Learning about grids, layout, visual weight, line weight, how to craft pristine prototypes, the movement of the eye and so on. These first classes were kind of boring, I wanted the computer! I wanted to freely experiment like I had in high school, but unsurprisingly the university approach was built to teach you the classics, the rules, color theory, mixing colors, studying the type sins and doing everything analog. Which was kind of a drag for an energized 18 year old, but in hindsight I appreciate this practice.”

“You also need to be able to loop through unlearning and relearning if you want to stay current about the happenings in the industry. I would spend a lot of time drawing grids in Adobe Illustrator using rectangles and guides. Soon, I saw a better method to do it by dividing a rectangle, the size of the artboard, into a grid from the toolbar. Finding the latter much more efficient, I had to unlearn the previous way of making grids and relearn this new method.”

“I’m terrified of colour. I don’t know how it works, apart from the rule of tincture. Fortunately, getting dirty with the design on the job has taught me a few lessons on which colours look good together and how to use colours as another way to create contrast.”