I love what you're saying about the importance of ideas. Technology and software changes so quickly you will always be behind (or constantly just trying to keep up). A good idea is better than any Illustrator shortcut.
I've recently run into students being amazed at people doing crazy things with Adobe software on social media and wanting to replicate the effect. I get it, the stuff looks cool. It's hard not to respond with, "But it doesn't mean anything. There's no substance here. This is just an effect, not an idea."
Maybe this is what your talk is about, but any ideas on how to show people the difference between something that has a solid idea foundation and something that's just trendy?
It’s a bit of all of that. The talk centers practice and momentum, and highlights the progressive growth and beneficial outcomes. It’s hard not to get distracted by trends and be curious about learning something new - but how I prefaced it without sounding preachy to the students, lol, is - in order to stand out, you have to be yourself and be invested in your own ideas. They’re all going to have similar things in their portfolio, so make an effort to be memorable.
I love what you're saying about the importance of ideas. Technology and software changes so quickly you will always be behind (or constantly just trying to keep up). A good idea is better than any Illustrator shortcut.
I've recently run into students being amazed at people doing crazy things with Adobe software on social media and wanting to replicate the effect. I get it, the stuff looks cool. It's hard not to respond with, "But it doesn't mean anything. There's no substance here. This is just an effect, not an idea."
Maybe this is what your talk is about, but any ideas on how to show people the difference between something that has a solid idea foundation and something that's just trendy?
Also thanks for the shoutout!
No prob! Diggin your newsletter!
It’s a bit of all of that. The talk centers practice and momentum, and highlights the progressive growth and beneficial outcomes. It’s hard not to get distracted by trends and be curious about learning something new - but how I prefaced it without sounding preachy to the students, lol, is - in order to stand out, you have to be yourself and be invested in your own ideas. They’re all going to have similar things in their portfolio, so make an effort to be memorable.