Technology is not my cup of tea, so anytime I achieve success in something
related to it, I quite positively surprise myself.
I don’t like technology, but I do like almost anything that is
creative. Sometimes, I think I could be a good graphic designer, if only design
had stopped at the Seventies or Eighties, when ideas and a good hand were the
only requirements you needed to have and when papers, pens, pencils were your
main tools. Sometimes, I think I was born in the wrong era. Someone or
something has made the mistake of catapulting me into this time and, because of
this mistake, I have to struggle with the computer and its programs.
I have heard about some of these graphic programs: Photoshop,
InDesign and Illustrator for example, and I have always wanted to use them. This
semester and in the previous one I have been given the opportunity to learn a
bit about them and we, these programs and me, have begun a ‘hate-love’
relationship. Approaching them with suspicious, I ask them to help me in doing
what I have to do. Like enemy, they try hard to hinder me resulting in great
frustration. If computers were cheap, I would have enjoyed myself many times throwing
them and watching them crushing against a wall as I say: “See, I told you to be
careful!” Unfortunately, it is the computer that retains power over me; so the
only thing I can do is rely my manual ability and scan my sketches and
paintings to fit in to my graphic-digital work. Only then, computer programs call
a truce and we find an agreement: “I don’t ask of you too many and complex procedures
and you respond by allowing me to complete my task.”
The result? A business card, a bookmark, a brochure, a postcard and
a magazine page! Not bad for a luddite like me!
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