Where am I now? (As a Designer)

This is a list of the ten things I have learned about my self as a designer since the start of the first semester:

I use central alot, even though I don't intentionally mean too. I purposefully try and do designs in right and left  just to keep me out of the habit. I think this really comes down from working on screen and I'm looking at the middle of it so I want to see things in the middle, I have to zoom out far and make multiple different copies in different arrangements as-well as in my notebook as thumbnails to get myself away from it.

I need to practice better time management as from the first semester I didn't quite keep my self up to date and I'm paying the price for that once all the other work has started mounting up as well. 

I work really well in a group and I think it's one of the places I excel personally. Not for the work that I create, but how I work when I'm in one, it makes me alot more motivated then individual projects. I think the reason is down to knowing I have to perform my part, a working cog and I enjoy that aspect to it.

I feel my self been pulled towards Adobe Illustrator time and time again because I feel most comfortable in it, I think this is because of just how much control I have over the elements I'm creating, I can modify a stroke how I want, size up and down a image how I want without pixelation. It feels like a safety net, but I can also bring all the elements into Indesign. I can use Photoshop and Lightroom for Image editing, and I'm competent in that It's just I always feel like I'm risking the outcome if something goes wrong during that. 

Futura and Georgia are two typefaces that seem to be developing to be my favorites  not as a combination although I think they work well as a couple. I really like the sturdiness Futura, how as bold it's like big iron girders forming characters while Georgia appears educated but pulled back, in comparison to Times. 

I gained alot of appreciation for the Constructivists work and the Russian Civil war artists, for what they stood for and what they aimed to achieve in the work they creating. It blew my mind on some of the work of just how up to date it would look if It was created today, It'd blend straight in. Mostly because alot of the work today draws down on what was created in that era of creation.

I really enjoy doing things that are completely different from anything I've attempted before, creating the app was something I really enjoyed because It was a scene I've never thought about. I came to the conclusion off creating it due to it's relevancy. I think It's something I need to encourage my self to do more often rather then stick to the safest option. 

I've discovered I really don't enjoy packaging however, an example been the mailshot, I struggle to be creative with packaging I find it alot harder to imagine solutions when it's 3D rather than an image I can aim to achieve. I think I need a new way of thinking when it comes to creating packaging to get around this.