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- breadlegz0
I did work experience at a newspaper and spent a day in each department. When I sat with the designers, I thought "you get paid to do this all day"...
That was it for me.
- PonyBoy0
I always just liked to draw and use computers... eventually my hobby turned passionate... I quit working at the bank (had a comfy lil 'officer' position) and went to a shitty art / tech school to see if I could handle the work and competition of the field... ... turns out I loved it, was better than the majority of my fellow students and could make respectable money drawing pictures / designing interfaces in my underwear. Whee. :)
- i_monk0
I'm starting to fall out of love with design. Not design per se, but the narrow little window that design is forced through if you want to make money at it.
- omahadesigns0
I liked art, I liked logos, I took a Photoshop class and it grew from there. Then I went to school for it.
- BaskerviIle0
Was good at art growing up
Studied with the aim of doing architecture at uni (maths, physics etc)
Decided a 7 year degree may be too long
Went to art school, thought about fine art, paintingFell in love with design when I realised that fine art at my uni was mainly about self obsessive, conceptual crap. Design seemed much more useful, and was about solving problems for others, rather than navel-gazing. It was a nice mix of logic and creativity. I naturally gravitated toward typography as it was slightly more tech-y and rules-based. I devoured stuff like Robert Bringhurst, Jan Tschichold etc
My career since then has been about learning to loosen up and trying to see everything as part of a bigger experience. Not just design for design's sake
- Miguex0
I wanted to do the cool looking pages on skateboarding magazines, and I will make my own logos for everything since I was a kid