The internet is for porn!

… And to get informed easily. As you may know, I’m studying Graphic Design, in my career, especially since third year, you need to do a lot of digital works, not just in graphic things, you have to make brand strategies and stuff, so along to type it and prepare the digital presentation, you need to get informed, that’s the most important thing. The information allows you to know the right strategy for a determinate Market situation.

Information is changing constantly, now with internet you can know what’s happening here in Chile almost at the same moment (or in a very short time), also you can be connected with all the world.

I remember when I was in the school, in primary I had to make all the homework with ICARITO, it was very difficult because IF you had the luck of having the magazine that talked about the topic you needed to know it was fine, but if you haven’t, good luck with your homework then. Of course there was always the encyclopedia, but among to be expensive it was a pain in the ass, small letter, you couldn’t cut it to get the images, always dusty, etc, etc. After that came the virtual encyclopedia, it was fine for school, but in the university you need fresh information and of a big number of topics that Encarta couldn’t give you.

I had internet since the year 2000 and I found a lot of good uses of it, like I said before, get information for homework, be connected fast with other people (msn and email), be able to read comics as soon as they are released, same thing with videogames and music, it’s just fantastic…of course if you had a good connection.

So that is, I love internet, I couldn’t even imagine my life without it, and of course if you finish your task there are always time for…

My career sucks...

Today I'm going to write about my career, more about of what I need to become a designer than the career itself.

As you know I'm studying Graphic Design in Universidad de Chile, Basically the skills any person needs is to be (at last) a bit creative, be objective about our own work and the most important is to have a lot of common sense. If you have these characteristic, then you can be a good designer. Personally I only have common sense and to be objective, but zero creativity, that’s why some kind of homework are so tedious and difficult to me, like when I have to design a logo or something like that, in the other hand my fort point is when I have to do Strategic design, involved more with marketing than graphic skills.

I think that there are some inborn qualities that you need, like I said before, creativity, but this one can be exercised, just like others like drawing ability, but there some qualities that any person must learn, like diagramming or drawing techniques.

The University in which I’m studying is the best one in Chile in this area, but has a few weak points, like infrastructure and lessons relevance, like graphic expression, is a very useful class but we only have two years of this class, and for me was just one because of first year, I had a teacher who was insane, a total waste of time and money, we should have that class from the first year till the last one.

I’m a bit worried about my working future, because of my poor graphic styles, I do not want to be always tired due to constant late nights of my life, I feel I'm getting older because of the demands of the career, and the working world is not much easier.

So in resume my career sucks, hope I can win the lottery or something like that.