Why Design?
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When presented with the question “Why design?” as
senior finishing up a design major, it took me longer than I expected to
reflect and extract the reasons I was interested in becoming a designer. I
think constantly defining and redefining your aspirations can work as a re-charge,
allowing you to reminisce about what got you excited about it in the first
place. My motivational re-charge was long overdue.
I’ve always been a visual learner and feel that it
is important to be presented with accurate and interesting materials to
stimulate further thinking. I grew up drawing on anything I could get my hands
on, but as I’ve gotten older, I sometimes struggle with creating personal
pieces and I am not confident enough to consider myself a fine artist. I’d say
I’m more of a master scribbler. I have always more driven to create work that
stems from a challenge or problem. And people seem to warrant and value my
opinion on how something appears. I’ve always been a solid communicator, but
better able to show, more than tell. For these reasons, life as a designer
embodies everything that I’m naturally good at and is a means for me to be
purposeful when creating.
What I did not initially recognize about the role
of a designer is how much responsibility we take on as leaders. Because I will
be opening or maintaining the lines of visual communication with the world, no
matter which design field I plant myself in, I want to solve problems in visual
communication that limit ethnological representations. The challenge of wanting
to solve a problem this large doesn’t intimidate me. I design because this is
one of the only career fields that respect risk-taking.
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Nastassia Darby
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