{"id":31729,"date":"2012-05-18T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=31729"},"modified":"2012-05-16T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T09:03:11","slug":"calm-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31729","title":{"rendered":"Calm design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/CalmDesign.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Often there&#8217;s this thing \u2013\u00a0where the graphic designer \u2013\u00a0feels like shouting, &#8216;I&#8217;M A PROFESSIONAL, I KNOW WHAT I&#8217;M DOING. REALLY.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>It usually arises from the idea that graphic design is a voodoo art that many do not understand. Or they <em>think they do,<\/em> but only understand a small portion of it. Trained, professional designers do spend at least 4\u20135 years studying our craft \u2013\u00a0and the years after finessing what we know.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping communication open to clients is also important. But really, there&#8217;s some of us who know what we&#8217;re doing. <\/p>\n<p>Mostly.<\/p>\n<p>Button design by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uxpin\" target=\"_blank\">UXPin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vonstutoberg\" target=\"_blank\">Sandoer Berg<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Calm design\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31729\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often there&#8217;s this thing \u2013\u00a0where the graphic designer \u2013\u00a0feels like shouting, &#8216;I&#8217;M A PROFESSIONAL, I KNOW WHAT I&#8217;M DOING. REALLY.&#8217; It usually arises from the idea that graphic design is a voodoo art that many do not understand. Or they think they do, but only understand a small portion of it. Trained, professional designers do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53,120],"tags":[121,58],"class_list":["post-31729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-thoughts","category-typography","tag-design","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31729"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31752,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729\/revisions\/31752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}