What is graphic designers greatest fear?
Designers are considered masters of their crafts. They have
created and designed the most amazing things that not all other
people are capable of. They are the ones people run to if they
wanted the best creations that may serve whatever purpose they
wanted. These designers can turn simple ideas and illustrations
into innovative graphic designs. These are what they do best.
What people do not know is that these designers, tackling
everything and making wonders in designs, scram in fear when
made to communicate with words. Talk about paradox. Whether they
are aware of it or not, graphic designers are also
communicators. They are able to communicate through visuals.
That is their way, and the way they understand it perfectly. But
then, give them the same concept, try making them express it,
this time in writing. The result would be something like trying
to make a bird talk. Which also means like putting too much
effort on something near the boundaries of a disaster and
impossibility? This is what it takes to make designers write.
This situation need basic solutions as to not make these
designers be trembling once put in a table with a pen and paper,
and nothing else. Sometimes designers are asked to do two works
at a time, adding captions and heading to what they have done.
Reports are also needed to be written most accurately by them
who have done the works themselves. This would mean having to
explain something not using the method that they do so well.
A lesson or two would surely help these graphic designers into
being word-friendly. The first thing they need to know is that
they should begin with words. What the writing is about. Drawing
pictures to inspire words can also be done. As long as the
concept is present. It is always a big help to research or learn
about the topic one is writing about. Getting an idea is
different from copying. There are numerous words that can
replace and explain another. Keywords would be an important
point of origin. They can serve as guides in the progression of
the writing, reminding one not to lean away from the essence of
what the writing is about. Writing out all your thoughts and
what one understands is most acceptable. There is always a
tendency of a free flow of idea once in a while. Letting it come
out and putting it into writing will surely score some points.
The last thing to do is the editing part. As graphic designers
are already exposed to editing their works, this would not be
much of a difficulty. Checking out the finished work is being
polishing it to ready it for the final stage of presentation. It
some cases, editing the work can at times bring fresh ideas to
add up to what is already done.
Graphic designers are experts of their crafts. But that fact
does not mean they are experts in everything. Writing can make
them