{"id":31853,"date":"2012-08-28T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=31853"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:41:19","slug":"state-of-graphic-design-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31853","title":{"rendered":"State of graphic design, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smartpress.com\/pages\/state-of-graphic-design\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stateofGD2012.png\" title=\"stateofGD2012\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;As a student, live by these words, &#8216;Quantity rather than quality.&#8217; The more you design the better your quality will become and you will continue to grow&#8217; \u2013Tony Montano<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like that quote. <\/p>\n<p>Quality does come later. Being a designer becomes all about instinct \u2013\u00a0not having the best computer, not software, not measurements, not rules. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just started teaching another semester of Graphic Design History and Typography at American River College \u2013 have a whole new group of kids to introduce to my gospel of visuals.<\/p>\n<p>One thought that&#8217;s been weaving its way thru my classes over the years is simply, &#8216;the more you do, the better you get.&#8217; We&#8217;ve all heard this, and yeah, it&#8217;s true. The only real stumbling block is &#8216;the more you do, if you&#8217;re <em>not paying attention,<\/em> you probably <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> get better.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>This year the student work has been incredible \u2013\u00a0but only when tied to good, old fashioned Hard Work. Risk taking, going out on that edge, trying something one has never done before leads to fantastic creations.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging much \u2013\u00a0I also have my usual four type classes at Ai Sacramento and a rather large project that&#8217;s been taking up the rest of my time (more on that soooooon) \u2013 so something had to give. It was blogging. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more as time permits; otherwise been immediately throwing finds up on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mehallo\" target=\"_blank\">my Twitter account.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping busy. Hope you are too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Infographic found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aisacgd\" target=\"_blank\">Ai Sacramento Graphic Design;<\/a> click image to jump\/view larger<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=\"State of graphic design, 2012\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31853\"  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>&#8216;As a student, live by these words, &#8216;Quantity rather than quality.&#8217; The more you design the better your quality will become and you will continue to grow&#8217; \u2013Tony Montano I like that quote. Quality does come later. Being a designer becomes all about instinct \u2013\u00a0not having the best computer, not software, not measurements, not rules. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,49,53,120],"tags":[121,126,58,122],"class_list":["post-31853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","category-thoughts","category-typography","tag-design","tag-education","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31853","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=31853"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31866,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31853\/revisions\/31866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}