Fer serious. SO here's the thing. For some reason, EVERYONE and their mom thinks "I have PhotoShop, I'm going to make posters and brochures for a living
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i don't think someone HAS to have a degree to be a graphic designer, but they do need to know how elements work together. David Carson??
this kind of thinking or defensiveness happened all through school. you were witness to it! i'm sure we were all guilty at some point, too, i know i am. people just take their work too personally. they take it as a personal attack and don't think they need to always strive to be better.
I don't think they need a degree (I really hate most of Carson's work XD ) but they need to have a basic understanding for it to not just seem pretentious and offensive to me.
I would just start building things and call myself an architect because I have no real skill in it, or training, ya know?
This is all so true. I personally have seen this exact type of a lot of times in responses to writing critiques (cause that's more my field, my art is amateur-level at best and while I've got a better grasp of design principles than the average kidlet I'd want to know a lot more, like actually take some classes, before I claimed anything more than ignorance).
Anyway, greenpanda's right, it's just human nature. While I do think that some personal investment in one's creative work is a good thing, because otherwise how can it have that ineffable quality of passion or soul, well... people tend to take it to a huge extreme. And then they cannot handle anyone NOT seeing ONLY whatever 'wonderful part of themselves' they put into it. It's like if you see anything amiss in their work then you're rejecting it entirely, and them along with it. Which is bull, of course. I think we creative people as a group need to learn to be more humble and less quick to take offense. But, unfortunately, it won't happen.
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this kind of thinking or defensiveness happened all through school. you were witness to it! i'm sure we were all guilty at some point, too, i know i am. people just take their work too personally. they take it as a personal attack and don't think they need to always strive to be better.
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I would just start building things and call myself an architect because I have no real skill in it, or training, ya know?
I agree, people are WAY too defensive about it!
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Anyway, greenpanda's right, it's just human nature. While I do think that some personal investment in one's creative work is a good thing, because otherwise how can it have that ineffable quality of passion or soul, well... people tend to take it to a huge extreme. And then they cannot handle anyone NOT seeing ONLY whatever 'wonderful part of themselves' they put into it. It's like if you see anything amiss in their work then you're rejecting it entirely, and them along with it. Which is bull, of course. I think we creative people as a group need to learn to be more humble and less quick to take offense. But, unfortunately, it won't happen.
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