First, we should pay attention to the collection and collation of professional materials and various information.
In the process of learning and improving graphic design, it is very necessary and basic to collect and accumulate professional materials and various information. This is a long-term uninterrupted work. It is normal that many novices often feel frustrated because they can't get creative when designing. Because the enhancement of people's thinking ability is obtained through continuous study and practice, the more information the human brain accepts and stores, the stronger the related thinking ability will be. Therefore, if beginners want to change this situation, they must first carefully collect and accumulate professional information.
In particular, obtaining information does not mean actually having information. The so-called "amateurs watch the excitement, and experts watch the doorway." If you want to see the "doorway" from the data and help improve your level, only superficial and general browsing will not bring results, especially when it comes to mastering specific design skills such as plane modeling, material application, color matching method and decoration use. It is suggested to remember on the basis of learning. The more styles you remember, the more ways and rules you can find for design modification, and so on. The truth that "you can recite poems without knowing how to write" is also applicable to the study of graphic design. Although this method looks a bit stupid, it is very useful. Of course, in the process of learning, it is not enough to accumulate only the professional information, because the design method of plane regeneration from plane, although very practical, is difficult to get rid of the influence of other people's ideas and get innovation and transcendence from higher demand. Therefore, we need to obtain all kinds of information outside the major more widely, such as the achievements of scientific and technological development, the development trend of culture, the works of various artistic categories, and various thoughts and concepts existing in literature, philosophy and music, so as to broaden our knowledge, increase our knowledge, learn from others, and get more enlightenment from them, thus producing better ideas.
In addition, in the face of ever-changing and complicated information, we must learn to use scientific methods to summarize and sort it out, so as to facilitate storage and application, delete outdated and useless information in time, capture the latest and most valuable information, and bring convenience to our real use of information. In particular, all kinds of non-professional information can not be used directly, and designers need to learn to sort out, refine, transform and sublimate. These are all manifestations of learning and working ability. Having this ability will not only get twice the result with half the effort in the learning stage, but also benefit a lot in the long career.
Second, we should be good at learning and improving through imitation.
Imitation is the essential feature of advanced life. I remember that American psychologists said that imitation, as one of human behavior patterns, is the result of learning. The use of imitation in the learning process, from the point of view of the behavior itself, should be regarded as a kind of plagiarism and the antonym of creation. It can't show how good its technology or ability is. However, it should be noted that many successful inventions or creations begin with imitation, and imitation should be regarded as a good learning method.
For beginners, you can't expect to become a wonderful pen overnight. You should honestly start by imitating other people's designs, just as learning calligraphy requires copying, so you should take imitation as the starting point of learning. Therefore, my advice to beginners is to find your favorite designer as soon as possible, and consciously imitate his design skills and style from now on, cultivate feelings and practice skills. At this learning stage, you need to constantly "love the new and hate the old", learn a little from here and there, and finally you can find your own strengths and form your own design style.
It should be reminded that any good learning mode needs correct methods. If your imitation of other people's works is unchangeable, it is not real learning. Learning to give an example is to imitate the meaning of learning.
Third, we should constantly improve our aesthetic ability and establish our own aesthetic view.
Aesthetic ability, also known as "aesthetic ability". It refers to people's ability to understand and evaluate beauty, beautiful things and various aesthetic characteristics, that is, people must have sensibility, judgment, imagination and creativity when they analyze and evaluate various things and phenomena in nature and social life. As a designer, it is very important to cultivate and improve aesthetic ability. People with strong aesthetic ability can quickly discover beauty, capture the essential things hidden in the depths of aesthetic objects, and rise from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. Only in this way can they create beauty and design beauty. It is difficult to form an extraordinary talent base only by temporarily feeling spirituality and lacking the cultivation of acquired artistic accomplishment.
In fact, everyone with normal IQ can appreciate beauty, which is an innate cognitive ability. British philosopher Herbert Tride once said, "Feeling is a physical gift, which is innate, not acquired." He added: "The starting point of beauty is wisdom, and beauty is people's perceptual knowledge of sacred things." It can be seen that everyone has feelings, but in the face of beautiful things, the aesthetic enjoyment people get is the level of aesthetic ability and appreciation ability. There is an idiom in our country called "casting pearls before swine", which is often used to satirize people who speak and do things regardless of their targets. In real life, there are differences in aesthetic ability between people. Although the formation and improvement of aesthetic ability is related to human physiological evolution, what is more important is the acquisition of cultural and artistic knowledge and aesthetic edification, from continuous learning and practice. The design masters who have made great achievements in the field of design have demonstrated their outstanding design talents according to their profound knowledge. Therefore, if you want to learn graphic design, you must get in touch with related art categories, such as listening to concerts and watching art exhibitions, so that the beauty of various arts can continuously infect and edify you, deepen your understanding and understanding of beauty, and thus make you have extraordinary artistic taste. Remember, don't pay attention to others saying that your eyes are low. On the contrary, I think this evaluation is gratifying, because only those with high vision can be promoted to "master", and those with low vision will never get master.
Fourth, make yourself sensitive as soon as possible.
The initial inspiration and clues of design creation often come from all aspects of life. Some things seem ordinary or insignificant, but they may contain many flashes. If designers turn a blind eye to them, can't find their existence and can't capture and use them in time, then many useful design materials will be missed.
Therefore, it is very important to cultivate your sensitivity to things from the beginning of learning. The so-called sensitivity refers to a person's rapid psychological or physiological response to external things. Designers can respond quickly to their own image characteristics, color emotions, texture aesthetics and so on. Rich associations are generated from any landscape or thing outside and through psychological activities, thus stimulating design inspiration and obtaining creative breakthroughs. A famous model with sloping shoulders was designed, which brought him great social reputation and commercial benefits.
It can be seen how important it is for us to find interesting, interesting and valuable things from seemingly ordinary things and commonplace things. This ability is one of the important qualities to be an excellent designer. As a learner, we must pay attention to this.
5. Make yourself fashionable as soon as possible.
We know that whether your work is welcomed by the market depends largely on whether it is fashionable and popular. It is hard for us to imagine that a designer with outdated ideas and clothes can make very fashionable and fashionable works. Of course, you don't have to rely on appearance to become fashionable. The key is to make your heart have a strong sense of fashion and your thoughts more modern.
Sixth, we should take the initiative to create practical opportunities for ourselves.
Many students in school often complain that there are too few practical teaching arranged by the school. Frankly speaking, this is indeed a problem in existing teaching. Improvement takes time, because there are many reasons involved, and the unilateral efforts of the school are not enough.
However, we must not give up the opportunity of active learning because of the shortage and difficulty of practical teaching in schools. As we all know, design is a very practical subject. Only through continuous practice can we truly understand the design, gain more direct experience and make really good and useful designs. So my advice to you is: you should take the initiative to create practical opportunities for yourself without affecting the normal study of the school, such as participating in various fashion competitions, taking part-time jobs in clothing enterprises, and being an assistant to seniors who serve in enterprises. Although you may not get the opportunity easily, you must believe that the opportunity must be prepared for those who work hard.
7. Learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others.
As an excellent designer, it is inseparable from the close cooperation and cooperation of all relevant personnel to successfully complete the design and development tasks and make the products designed by him produce good social and economic benefits. For example, the formulation and improvement of the design scheme need to be separated from the company's decision makers; The acquisition of market demand information needs to communicate with consumers and customers; The timely acquisition of sales information can not be separated from the help of marketers; Without the cooperation of the purchasing department, it is impossible to provide the sources of various materials; The improvement of technology can not be separated from the cooperation of technicians; The manufacture of products can not be separated from the hard work of the workers; The quality of products can not be separated from the quality inspection department; Product packaging and publicity can not be separated from the efforts of planners; Marketing promotion is inseparable from the efforts of public relations personnel.
Therefore, as an excellent designer, we must establish a sense of teamwork, learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others, and pay attention to training and cultivating this ability during school study, and strive to make it a work habit, which will be of great benefit to the next ten sessions.