It Begins...

Here it goes, my first post, a little about me... I'm 21, and a graphic design student along with probably everybody else who's probably ever going to read this blog. I don't know what else to say about myself, I love design, and I love my classes at CSUN but for some reason I don't see myself as a "Designer." When I think of a "Designer," I think of well dressed New York socialite with some room for guessing as to which direction they're sexually oriented. I think of myself more as a creative personality with an eye for design aesthetics. I think I have an innate ability to recognize the elements of design in the world around me, though I think most people can probably choose between good design and bad design given the choice, I don't think everybody has the ability to articulate why some design is better than others let alone understand it themselves.

That being said it's kind of accident that I'm actually a student of graphic design. In my second year of college at Moorpark Community College I took my first Graphic Design class and at the time, I had no idea what the word Graphic Design meant let alone how to use Illustrator CS3 which had been recently introduced to me. I ended up being a complete failure in that class and I think if it wasn't for my attitude, I actually would have failed. In the end because of my attitude and passion for this new found art my Professor helped my apply for a small, often over looked scholarship for $430, the exact amount of Adobe Illustrator. My first year at CSUN I was still a declared Chemistry Major, but I found that ever since my Graphic Design class my perspective on art had changed completely. My first semester at CSUN was spent endlessly doodling in the margens of my notes, but these weren't just doodles, I had all of a sudden become obsessed with letters, spacing, and the relationship of each to other elements on the page, I was hooked. Later that semester a few of the guys in my fraternity, Sigma Chi, helped me to realize what exactly a Graphic Designer is, what they do, and how you actually have a career being one. After all I had secretly been harboring fears of wearing a lab-coat and crunching numbers for the rest of my life, so that week I changed majors from Chemistry to Graphic Design and the rest is as they say, history.