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Developing a Design Style

We always recognize an expert in his/her design field when we see one.  We  also recognize a designer’s style when we see one. Unfortunately you cannot have a style if you dont have the skill.  The skill is what defines a style.  If you are an imature designer then your designs will lack any recognizable style.  Building the skill is one of the most fundamental tasks that you must work on in order for you to be recognized as a designer with a particular style. 

You will find many designers today who have not developed the style because:

• All their designs consist from tutorial work.
• Built on someone elses ideas
• Design approach is too diversiftied
• Designs consist of no plan, or random photoshop work.

Why style?

Style is who you are.  Why do you wear the clothes that you wear?  Why do some shop at Banana Republic, and some at Aberchrombie?  Because thats the style that appeals to their inner self. Usually the one’s that don’t dress stylish don’t have any particular style, they dress up according to what fits them not what defines them.  Today they may shop at Goodwill and tomorrow at  Macy’s.   The ones who are particularly nifty about what they wear, are picky about where they shop.  Designers, so to speak, fall into the same class. Most of the  designers with no particular style, work for some printing shop.  I’ve spotted them in Kinkos or Office Max.  Their job is to grab customer’s information, stick couple of clip art pictures and get done with it. 

Building a style it self should not be the focus.  Your concern should be your ability to design.  If you work hard in trying to gain design experience, your skill and experience will slowly began to expose what your particularl style ingridients are.  You may have borrowed a few tricks from one or another source that helped to shape your style, but that is not of any concern, since what you may have borrowed happened to appeal to you.  I, in particular don’t like dirty design styles, such as where the inc is being splattered on page, or something that is sloppied to the wall …etc. Such designs don’t appeal to my character or taste, although I know it has become highly popular these days.  My style is more organized in nature, and I like to follow it and perfect in it.

Here is an example of a sloppy design and organized design

 

Although style may not be necessary to become a well established designer, but what you have to understand is that only through style you can ever become  an innovative designer.  What helps to develop design skill with a particular style is your focus in sticking and progressing in one or two directions.  You may diversify yourself to every kind of design style, but that may not be the best track to head on. It’s like diversifying into every field and thinking that you may one day become an expert in all of them, but that is only a wishful thinking; you may become average or good, but not great.  So stick focused and progress and you will become an expert in your style.

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