<aside> 💡 wanted to do marketing in china, then went to graphic design school and found out you know nothing about graphic design

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When I graduated high school, I, once again, didn’t want to do design. Or more like — I did, but then I experienced the crushing defeats (two of them) when I couldn’t get to the universities I wanted.

I don’t need a bachelor’s to do design, pff, I already know how to design things.

I really liked marketing and advertising back in high school, and I also like languages. Let’s apply to uni where I can study marketing. I can be attending Chinese lessons on the side and in no time, I can do design and marketing in China!

SOMEHOW, I still ended up going for graphic design. Maybe I was, in the end, too comfortable in the familiarity of it. The school interview was alright. They were maybe expecting me to talk a little bit more about design — but I didn’t realize. When they asked about what books I like, I talked about books I read in my free time. And they weren’t design books. “Who’s your favourite designer?” they asked then, and I realize I know exactly zero designers. Sure, I would often walk past a nice poster or pick up a book with a great cover design, but that’s it. I wasn’t gathering things I like to create neat Pinterest artboards or following people whose work I like. They straight up did not believe me and it was a kind of a weird ending of the interview.

I found out shortly after my classes at uni started, that I don’t know much about graphic design. Our classes at high school were way too vague for me to really understand this field. And what I thought were basics of graphic design weren’t basics of graphic design at all. But I could work in illustrator, photoshop and had some knowledge of marketing and art history, which was useful.

To this day, I still don’t have a favourite graphic designer or even a favourite creator and I can’t even describe the style I like. But I don’t consider it to be that big of a deal anymore. Growth✌