Reflections

Recently I have been asking myself, what is design? I used to think that design is just about color and pattern, it's a new idea. But now I think it's more than that. According to J. Ko (n.d.), design is ideas, processes, methods, communicate. When looking around, everything has something to do with design, even what I do in my daily life.

So far, I only do graphic design, I enjoy it and I want to be a graphic designer. But somehow I'm not sure about that. Before I went to university, I listened to its lecture on design major. It was the first time that I learned that there were so many kinds of design, such as experience design, which I had never heard before. I suddenly feel that there are so many things I haven't tried and explored, how can I conclude that there won't be anything more interesting in the unknown? I am willing to explore, try and feel. I am eager to learn more skills and improve myself. I realized that I really needed to take the step and try new things.

In the past, I always used Adobe Illustrator when designing posters, because it was the first software that I learned to do graphic design. For me, it works well and meets most of my needs. But this time, I used the iPad to draw the main image in the poster of the assignment for DES 101. I've never drawn a picture like that before. It's hard for me to draw lines smoothly, but after practice, things began to get better. I have to admit that it's convenient to draw on the iPad, and I only will know it after trying.

REFERENCE

1. Chapter 1: What designers do (Links to an external site.) from Design Methods by Amy J. Ko with contributions from Rachel Franz