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makemassair / to be a designer / natural talent or hard work? — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:45:04 +0000

[...] wrote a great post back in early February for the snap2objects blog discussing what it is to be a designer. Essentially whether it’s a natural talent, or the [...]

By: Jenny Pilley

Jenny Pilley — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:27:52 +0000

This article really struck home. I think designing is harder than many people give credit for. If you have no inspiration, how can you design?
People can be creative but they need to find what their outlet of creativity is, what their ‘niche’ is. Design is natural talent but twinned with the perseverance and hard work it takes to finish a design. Both are needed for a successful design, and unlike many other ti=ypes of outlets, both talent and hard work are needed for design.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:12:32 +0000

I agree to an existent that it “is much easier to learn to use the tool than to learn to have a good aesthetic sense.” But also; taking the time to quote, from the film Ratatouille the big chef Linguini said, “Any one can cook.” Anyone can design and a good aesthetic sense can be taught. You need to teach inspiration, what influenced other great designers, great designers didn’t just stumble across good design although some did get lucky, you need to show more just looking at other peoples work and acknowledging what works and what doesn’t but teach and show in a kinaesthetic manner, like the way you would teach your self or someone else to draw and bring that inspiration into the work. Don’t just leave it on the side with all that ‘back up work’ in a neatly bound pile.

By: Mushroom

Mushroom — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:11:37 +0000

In my very own personal opinion i would say that Thomas Edison didn’t knew what e was talking about, and surely he wasn’t a designer. When you follow a doctrine or believe in something, yeah, you got interest and with some effort you can reach those goals… But having 5 degrees doen’t certify a good work.

Effort does count, but it isn’t easy to anyone to have a seinsibility toward arts, seeing such beauty that surrounds us that most of the people ignore. techniques can be teached, but surely having a good aestetic sense don’t. It’s a matter of talent, and mroe tan effort on conviction and matter, a deisgner isn¡t made up of degrees, a designer builds it self up by researching, reading, experimenting, listeing… by applyion all the semiotic and sense material it have up in his mind, surely is most about talent than effort.

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Found on The Web 10/02/2009 « The Blog of No Return — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:47:11 +0000

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By: Kanika

Kanika — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:51:05 +0000

I agree – For a designer inspiration is more than only one percent. Designer in today’s world is more like a commerical artist. Designers are marketers and yes any job which has so much of competition and “market” value involved, involves hard work.

Designer = 50 %talent + 50% hard work.

It all goes hand in hand.

By: estefany

estefany — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:44:03 +0000

Most people that commented agree that it evolves both, talent and effort. But in general, they said that talent is a bigger part. Personally, I agree. I don’t think that ONLY the desire can make a good designer. I see many people that really like this area, studies, even work with design, but the results are not really good design layouts. Anyway, I also agree with JeremyOLED that “talent/hard work equation is just different for everyone”.

By: estefany

estefany — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:26:56 +0000

@jaime.radar Hi! That’s the point when I said “We can’t state if coursing the university really defines a good designer or not”. But I’m sure you have studied by yourself about composition, typography, layout, etc and that’s why we all know the hard work and study we went through. ;)