designing: not as easy as it looks

Over the past week I have had a pleathora of comments about how I have the easiest major. People seem to be under the impression that when you design something it just comes to you in a wave of creativity, you quickly put some text and a photo on a poster, and boom it's created and finished. Anyone out there who think's that designing is just where you create a bunch of fun stuff and there's no stress is very much mistaken. I have more homework that most of my senior friends. Designing and being creative in your design has to be thought out.

Tonight, my friend asked me to help her out creating a poster for the Talent Board. She is in charge of coordinating the marketing aspect for each individual Talent Association here at BYU - Idaho. She told me to just come and she already had the text and images ready and that it would take tops of a half hour. I knew better than that. I planned my schedule for an hour and a half to create this poster. I had three people telling me what to manipulate for a good hour and a half. I didn't mind it at all, but my friend was frustrated that I wasn't faster and creating the poster.

 I think that people have to understand that when you have the text and images, sometimes the images don't work as well as you thought they would. Sometimes the fonts don't quite match or don't accentuate the poster in the best way possible. Designing takes skill, practice, and I think most importantly patience. By manipulating and taking the time to test out new and different ideas, you will be able to be creative, professional, and learn a whole lot more from failure than success.