Yesterday's rant about Design education gained a response from an old friend far away in Hong Kong, which apart from making me really want to have a glass of wine and a decent conversation with her, reminded me of the extent to which we "can only see what we know'. and is a reminder of how culture-bound we are (her words).
Her thought that it was key to Graphic Design to know the basic elements of visual consumption is so simple and self-evident, and yet in the process of teaching in a program for a long time, with many of the same people, we tend to have the same conversations over and over again, to the point where we start thinking there are only these limited viewpoints, they become our world, what we know.
I think I could use a little self-coaching to examine what it is I am assuming, particularly about the extent to which we are prioritizing technology in design, and that in doing so we are losing what is consistently part of visual communication. Time to gan some new viewpoints, see new possibilities, maybe spend some time observing in industry.
Then something else happened with a colleague later in the day where there was case of mistaken identity in a text message, which had the colleague making assumptions about the sender, which it turns out were incorrect, but again, was a case of only being able to see the message in a certain way, and hence get really affronted by it.
My left foot has been painful, so on the advice of Trainer Nic, today was a weight's training day- just as sweaty, and more specifically painful, but a learning curve .... that makes me start to wonder and be curious about what else I could do?
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