Why is it important for Communication majors to study design?
Communication majors have to study design
because we have to realize that the devil's in the details. We have to know why
something was constructed the way it was or why the artist chose to go in one
direction instead of the other. The design of the product can say a lot about a
single company or person. Regardless of what you do in your future, people will
always remember how your design turned out. None of us are perfect if we take
our time to carefully study something, we might see something there that we
didn't notice before. By taking your time with a piece of art, you'll be able
understand more about the piece, and you'll be able to have intelligent
conversations about the piece as well. It's one thing to say, "that
picture is nice." But it's better to say, "that picture is blooming
with color." Small things like that will help you appreciate design in the
long.
Good design ultimately boils down to two
things. Having good design will allow your piece of art stand out, and it might
actually help you sell your work to a respective client. Clients don't want to
use tired and true methods to get their point across. Clients want ideas that
are original, and stand out from the rest of the crowd. If clients stuck to the
same ideas all of the time, the industry would fall flat on face. Nobody wants
that at all. If there was no ingenuity, what would be the point of trying
something new? You want people to pay close attention to your product instead
of yawning at it, and moving onto the next piece. Good design can also inspire
others to follow in your footsteps. We need innovation and good design in everything.
You should take a step towards a different tomorrow.
My favorite piece of design would have to
be billboards that stand out. Billboards I
love billboards that stand out like ones mentioned in the link because they do
their best to get their message across. Companies spend millions of dollars a
year for advertising so if you remember their billboard, mission accomplished.
This is most certainly true for home cleaning products. "That's the power
of Pine-Sol, Baby." Everybody knows that quote because you think of all of
the crazy commercials that are associated with it. That's effective
advertising. As mentioned earlier, if you can remember a product based on its
slogan, then the companies did the right thing. I really enjoy that quote
because I'll always ask one of my friends if they used Pine-sol after they mop.
The first class was pretty awesome. I
can't wait to see what else the rest of my classmates have to offer. They all
seem lively, and happy to be there. Those two aspects alone make the class
worth coming to every day!
