Day one.class one.

The first question thrown at us today was “What kind of a designer do you see yourself as?”
So you basically sit there thinking either “I’m going to design things that people will want to buy. I’m an awesome designer. A breath of fresh air” or “I’m going to be mature and cool about this and admit that I don’t actually see myself as a designer just yet” and then I guess there’s somewhere in the middle where you’re a repeating student from last year and have recently come back from a… soul searching kind of ‘holiday’, and you understand that your original ideas and views on the whole “what it really means to be a designer” were selfish. But you’re trying to change. Trying really hard in fact, to rectify the situation. Gain some humble modesty and learn the importance of humility.

So I’m in there somewhere. I still consider myself a selfish designer. I still really, really want to design things that I want to play with. But just how important are those designs. Would they not just be a waste of people’s time. Wouldn’t my skills be better spent on objects that are going to save your life, rather than making a mobile phone fit better in the palm of your hand.

I think at the moment I'm actually more of an overwhelmed designer. It hit me hard, during my time off, that a designer carries, should carry, a lot of responsibility. It’s in my opinion, thus far, that we are in the evolution business. We are shaping the future. The curious mammal known as the human is greatly influenced by his or her surroundings. If it is up to us to create this environment, it should be a helpful and educational/ at least thought provoking world. We have to play parent. I’m overwhelmed and scared of what I’m going to do to the world. And that sounds incredibly arrogant, but I’m positive that in some small way, I will leave my mark the world. What more could any mortal hope for.

I’d like to hope I’m heading somewhere with this. At the moment I have many theories running rampant in my head, many contradicting, but mostly just making me sound like an ass if I dare speak them. But it doesn’t bother me too much. One-day ill have something really important to say. And hopefully that will be my greatest design.
My mark on the world.