I’m at a pivotal point in my design student career. I’m done with my first two years and am now seriously looking at what it’s going to take to make a career happen with design…
Up until this point every post I’ve done has been of projects that have been completed long before the time of writing the article. So since I have written about every project I have done so far, I have nothing more to write about.
In a few weeks I will be starting my 3rd year as a design student at Kent State University. From what I hear it is an intense year. Projects get harder because there are more variables that become open to play with. More research needs to be done and not as much guidance is given from professors. We’re slowly becoming real designers!
So with the pivotal time in my design career comes a pivotal point in the style of this blog. Since I am really going to make an effort to keep up with my projects as I make them, the writing style will most likely change. The articles might be more in-depth since I will try and writing out my thoughts on my projects every step of the way. However if I am to busy the articles might shorten as well, leaving only a small brief to wrap up what I worked on. Hopefully the latter won’t happen and I’ll be able to keep myself informed about what I am working on as I work on it.
What definitely will change will be the order in which things are presented. Since I’ll be taking multiple studio classes simultaneously the subject of the posts will most likely overlap. Also since I am going to be learning more about web development, the look of DxD will be changing (with help from friends of course).
So now that we’ve reached a point where we can breath for a bit, I figured it might be a good idea to dive into why “death by design” was chosen for the title of this blog.
When I set out for my higher education I did not anticipate that I would study design, nor did I anticipate that it would be so time consuming. The combination of my interest in design and it being so time consuming and relevant to my life ended up totally changing the way I think and rendered a kind of “death” of the person that I was and I thought I would be. It’s kind of like when Obi Wan Kenobi describes how Darth Vader “killed” Anakin Skywalker, but in my case it was a good thing (if that makes sense). So in other words, I was consumed by the powers of design and the old self that I was died (in terms of how I viewed myself and what I thought I would do in life) and a new self emerged. But the new self is a good guy, and not a prick like Vader was.
Here’s to the next few years of VCD at Kent State University!
