Design is Everywhere
Look around you. Look at your shoes, your toothbrush, the cover of a book, tires, shingles, and even the food you eat. Design is intrinsic to intellect, and out of an intelligence, design is evidenced in all things. Let me just focus on human design for the sake of brevity of this post. Design is evidence of an intelligence that intentionally crafts a thing for a specific purpose by maximizing and minimizing certain attributes of said thing. It was this thought that lead me to graphic design.
I loved drawing from an early age, and I constantly had ideas of how things could be made more efficient. I’ve always been “good with computers” since I started messing around with troubleshooting our old Pentium that ran Windows 95 in 1998. So, when I found out people made a living creating images, animations, videos, and websites on their computer, I was naturally drawn towards it. I found that everything we consume had gone through a design process. Everything. I was overwhelmed at the possibilities at first, but I narrowed it down to creativity, design, computers, internet, and ultimately graphic design seemed to be a logical choice.
So, next time you’re outside and enjoying the fresh air and a new day stop and look to see how the sidewalk is intentionally designed, the roads, the stoplights, even the way your clothes fit on your body. Design is what makes our lives enjoyable.
