Design is...

My grade three teacher, whos name I cannot remember, made us do this art project. The project was to gather sticks, leaves, and other things found in the forest. We would then lay the gatherings onto a sheet of paper to create any picture we wanted. I made the greatest picture of a bird, and everyone else's looked like shit. It was around then I realized Mathematics, Science, and English would be useless knowledge for my future in the arts.

Six years passed.
I was in grade nine, and I pretty much made nothing artistic since that grade two bird. I couldn't draw anything, not even cocks. I had this art teacher Ms. Carroza. She failed me with a forty-five percent, but the class was pretty cool so I took it again, and every year until grade twelve. While I was in grade twelve I didn't know what to do with my life after high school, luckily I didn't have enough credits to graduate so I had another year to think. I did a co-op placement at this print shop that was so far from my house it was a joke, actually, it was near Artur's house. I met the nicest people there, they taught me alot of stuff about printing and computers. So there it was, confirmation to myself that graphic design was the path my life would take. Humber accepted me the following spring. I still remember the interview for Humber. I caught a peek at this girls portfolio and it was so good, I wanted to knock her out and just steal it. The worst part was the interview itself though, Heather, I'm sure you rememeber (stink eye).

School has changed my views on what design actually is. The more I do the more I realize the importance of design in my work. Design is for solving a problem, and then using the results to blow the human mind again and again until it explodes from amazement overload. That's what's important to me, the explosion. The explosion can do many things, it can inspire, it can cause realization, it can connect, it can create feelings, but most of all, it can excite. These moments don't come too often, so they aren't to be squandered.

My dreams for the future are tied to my thoughts of the power of design. One day I hope to start my own magazine, and great design can manipulate the masses, it can communicate to who it needs to and deliver a message to zombify them bit by bit.

Anyone can be designer, anyone with the urge to disturb the norm, or anyone wanting to create something so creative it makes their head explode.