OUGD502: Visiting Professional - Build

In this talk he discussed key things that triggered interests to eventual journey in being a professional graphic designer. He has been a professional for 26 years now. Music was something that he was really passionate about and has shaped his Graphic Design career. "Graphic Design is the thing that moves me." Examples of Iron Maiden's work were shown. He was inspired by the music and style, particular really big aspect. He said he didn't know it was graphic design, he just like the music. He thought there was something magical about this thing he was looking at and something that really captured my imagination as a teenager. There was no history of design in his family. He has a far better understanding of graphic design now. He then spoke about type faces and things do and don't stand the test of time in the world he was fascinated in and he more interested in technical drawing
because he had initial thoughts on being an architect. He was then given a letraset catalogue. This was a real marker for how he fully formed this idea graphic design was a thing people were paid to do it. It was a key point in his career. He did a foundation in Scarborough and studied in York and thinks "pretty graphic design is boring" prefers something "with a bit of umph to it, something that's not quite right." He ended up in Newcastle later on to study and turned out to be the wrong course for him. He wanted to do record sleeve design and the tutors thought there wasn't a future in record sleeve design. He says that their current studio would rather have someone that's super passionate and not as good rather than someone thats only good at the work and not passionate.