I know that the 3rd year is going to be a struggle, and I will have to make sacrifices to achieve my goals. I do not just want a degree. I want to best degree I can achieve, a group of colleagues that I will be able to call life-long friends and a set of skills that can open any door and kick down a few walls. Every time I start a new project I decide that that is the specialism for me because I do enjoy learning new things. Because of this I am not sure that I would like to decide just yet. I much prefer the idea of keeping my options open and trying as many pathways as I can while I am at University. In Chapter 1, Johnathan talked about “two types of designers. Those that are experts in a particular field and can create beautiful work that is exceptional, and those that like to work in all different fields.” I think I will more than likely be the second type of designer because that is what my personality is like. I want to do it all. I want to know it all. I will say that I know my heart is in typography. It is what makes me tick. I have always had an appreciation for it and now that I understand how to use it properly, I try
to make sure that I do. Because I feel so passionately about it I think that it will feature heavily in the research and writing of my dissertation. I think a lot about communication and ways that I as a designer in training can relate to other people. The phrase ‘tone of voice’ is a phrase that I have heard so often in the last two years of training and I would like to explore this and find forms of communication that work and why.
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rd Year at University