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"Suggesting is more exciting than explaining."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy Five.
There is something wonderfully intriguing about letting the viewer come to their own conclusion, instead of creating something which is extremely obvious and leaves little to the imagination. Perhaps this is something you could try for your next project?
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"Simplify."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy Four.
Can it be done with only two colours? Can the same message be conveyed with less words? Does that border need to be there? Reducing the clutter will leave a clear and concise piece of communication.
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"Learn how to fix your mistakes, instead of stressing over them."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy Three.
Stressing over your mistakes is absolutely pointless. Instead, take a deep breath and figure out how to fix it to ensure you don't make the same mistake again.
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"Change is inevitable. Learn to roll with it."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy Two.
Sometimes the project doesn't go exactly to plan. You've got to learn to be versatile and adaptable, and roll with the punches. You never know, it could turn out to be pretty fantastic!
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"Always be constantly learning."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy One.
Keep yourself at the top of the game in this fast-paced world, where there are constantly new skills and knowledge to learn!
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"Rock the smaller jobs to get to the bigger jobs."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Seventy.
It's highly unlikely, when starting out in the industry, that you'll be given a brief for a huge campaign or project. Start out small and ensure your work is well thought out, detailed and beautiful, and you'll be able to handle those super exciting jobs in no time!
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"Truly understand the message you are communicating."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Nine.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
Without having a deep understanding of what you need to be communicating, you will have trouble creating an effective and meaningful piece of work. Ask as many questions as you need to enable yourself to truly understand.
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"Learn to manage changing priorities."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Eight.
Sometime's the plan you have for your day will change thirty minutes after you've started working because something urgent has come up. Learn to roll with the punches and be flexible, and you will be sure to achieve great success!
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"Create your own success."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Seven.
Nobody's success story ever began with, "I sat around and then I was offered this amazing opportunity." Everybody's success story begins with hard work, perseverance, and bucket loads of passion.
Put yourself out there. Start a side project. Blog. Draw. Photograph. Tweet. Just get out there and begin creating your own success, and it will feel that much better once you've earnt it.
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"Realise your worth."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Six.
You've absolutely got to realise and believe in your worth; your skillset, your thought processes and your abilities. If you can't see your own worth, how can you expect others to?
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"Maintain an even client base, to avoid relying heavily on any one client."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Five.
Try to avoid relying too heavily on any one client, especially as a freelancer, because you just never know what might happen if it all goes terribly wrong!
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"Speak intelligently about your work."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Four.
Learning to speak intelligently about your work will be a lifelong skill which will reap boundless rewards. Clients, managers, art directors and designers alike will find it easier to work with someone who can clearly verbally communicate their thoughts and ideas, and give it value at the same time.
Learning to speak about your work intelligently, and communicating iron-clad reasons behind all of your design decisions, will win you so many points. There is nothing more off-putting than working with someone who explains their work by saying, "Um yeah, well, I like red... so, yeah." Take the time to rehearse before the presentation and you will come out a winner!
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"Learn to value your time, and others will too."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Three.
If you place worth in yourself and believe in that worth, others will follow. This self-valuing goes for pricing your work correctly and not underselling yourself, believing in yourself, learning to protect your work, and trusting your instincts. Combine this with a hard working attitude and you should be set for a successful career!
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"Always believe in yourself."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty Two.
Because if you don't believe in yourself, who will?
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"Remove your fear of failure."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty One.
Often young designers who are entering the industry for the first time are quite scared. I know this because in my early career I was one of them. Wide eyed, we wanted desperately to impress, and followed the instructions of our creative directors down to a T. We often asked questions...until we learned these questions were better directed towards ourselves, and more importantly, these were exactly the problems we needed to learn to solve ourselves.
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"You may have time to walk to that interview or meeting, but the elements will be against you. Play it safe and transport it up!"
Lessons of a Young Designer: Sixty.
This lesson was submitted by the lovely and talented Lisa Vertudaches, who has no doubt had her fair share of bad luck when it comes to the weather!
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"Collect things which inspire you, and look through them often. They might help you through a creative block."
Lessons of a Young Designer: Fifty Nine.
I have a huge inspiration pin board above my computer in my study, and I have lost count of the number of times looking up at it has given me fresh inspiration through a creative block! Highly recommended!
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