Professional Blog Review - Breaking Rules

So what are the rules of graphic design? The answer is simple, there are none. As a graphic designer, your job isn't to just create a product for someone. It's about pushing your own boundaries and expectations as well as your clients. It may have to do with testing your creativity limits and challenging your self to strengthen you weakness. Why create rules, when they're just going to be broken? When dealing with clients, it's almost necessary to make rules. It's good to have a general design decision and to make certain rules to avoid things with the clients. Denise Bosler, the author of the article Creativity Anarchy at Its Very Best, stated that "Never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop doing what you love, and always create the best design you can".

My Motif & Repeat Pattern

During this project, I learned how to use the pattern tool, the rotate tool, and some new techniques on the stroke tool. Some troubles I had with this project was that I wanted to make a unique stroke but not something you couldn't understand. I put together a couple different designs and I put them together to make something unique and fun. For my motif, I got inspiration from looking at different designs on the internet as well as around the school. To put the rotate tool to good use, I made a simple design first and rotated it to make something like a flower.