mark okon is my hero.
November 15, 2008
I don’t mean to sound too fangirl-ish, but he’s too awesome! Lol. (He’s a YSDN and George Brown’s SCHOOLOFDESIGN graduate. Interned for W+K Tokyo Lab, Japan.) I still wonder how I’m gonna get from where I am to where he is. Gap. The day he’d become my mentor would be my lucky day. Lol.
So, is it better to be a jack of all trades, master of nothing person…or to focus on only one aspect of design (i.e. motion)?
November 16, 2008 at 11:19 am
i think there are endless possibilities… by doing a bit of motion, who knows if one day someone asks you to make a specific frame into a large format poster? we don’t know what the client will need… My opinion, however, is that it is important for you to be comfortable enough to do ‘anything’ before especializing. And what i mean by that is being able to analyze design with the same vocabulary regardless of the medium (form, colour, contrast, etc). Yes, specialization can be a choice, but it can also come in unexpected ways.
I think that either your future workplace or clients can also have a great influence on you… Let’s say you are known for doing motion. Pretty much all clients will come to you looking for that kind of solution initially. After you talk to them etc.. then there might be more opportunities =)
November 17, 2008 at 1:49 am
Lol. You definitely should consider teaching. Look at you ramble on ever so wisely about design!
Yeah yeah yeah, I’m trying my best to be “comfortable enough to do ‘anything.’” I am taking Comm Des aren’t I? Lol. But yeah, you have a good point. Sometimes it’s just hard to carry it over to a different medium, especially when you’ve already got it defined as something you hate. Lol.
November 17, 2008 at 11:01 am
LOL… sometimes… hatred is related with a bad experience in the past.. ok.. tell us… what was the traumatic experience! lol. BUT also… maybeeee it’d help to see some good work within a certain style? Not just any good work, but let’s say… good print design that uses, for example, custom type?…
for interactivity etc… I find that it is not that people hate designing for it, but it’s because they feel uncomfortable having to program it…
but for you, I know that this is not the case ( you don’t need to learn how to use illustrator!) So maybe… my biggest guess is that you struggle trying to tell something with one single image (?)… You’re more comfortable using frames and sequence…. i think lol… but who knows?… just do 140 more layouts and then something will come up! i guaranteee! hahaha
November 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm
lol marcelo you’re funny! and maybe you should teach, you’re like the yoda of ysdn right now.
i think it’s because you’re so focused on hating something that it makes it hard for you to branch out of it. i didn’t like comdes1 but i’m ok with comdes2… then again it probably is the professor or the subject you’re doing. it’s your frame of mind. don’t let comdes be the frogface of your design career lol!
anyway, nice portfolio! and about being the jack of all trades or especializing, i’m saying design is design… it’s broad and it can be applied to many medium and that’s the beauty of it. i think one of the key for design is to have an open mind, it’s not just print or motion or websites. it’s a solution. aaand it’s whatever else marcelo said =)
November 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I agree with Marcott… specially the part where she agrees with me! LOL