journal 3: twenty questions

After reading through twenty rules that gives the top 20 rules to follow when designing. 3 most important, the 3 I need to practice, and the 3 I will probably ignore:

1.Have a Concept
2.Communicate, Don't Decorate
3.Speak with One Visual Voice
4.Use Two Typeface Families Maximum, OK, Maybe Three
5.Use the One-Two Punch!
6.Pick Colors On Purpose
7.If You Can Do It With Less, Then Do It
8.Negative Space is Magical, Create it don't just Fill It Up
9.Treat The Type As Image, As Though it's just as important
10.Type is Only Type When Its Friendly
11.Be Universal, Remember That Its Not About You
12.Squish and Separate
13.Distribute Light and Dark Like Firecrackers And The Rising Sun
14.Be Descisive, Do it on Purpose, Or Dont Do It at All
15.Measure with Your Eyes, Design Is Visual
16.Create Images-Dont Scavenge
17.Ignore Fashion. Seriously.
18.Move It! Static Equals Dull
19.Look at History but dont Repeat It
20.Symmetry is The Ultimate Evil

most important:

(19) Look at History but don't Repeat it - things get overdone and then they lose their uniqueness and originality.

(7) If You Can Do it With Less, Than Do It - less is always more, anyone can just throw stuff on a page but less creates more of a purpose and simplicity.

(8) Negative Space is Magical, Create it don't just Fill It Up - negative space is part of your design it is not just white space. Using the negative space creates very strong designs.

need to practice:

(19) Look at History - because it is very important to do research, you progress to better ideas and learn more about design. This is something i feel like i need to do more of.

(6) Pick Colors on Purpose - this is a rule that i feel like i need to focus on because i pick colors that i like together and not necessarily go with the theme or mood of my design.

(1) Have a concept - i feel like i work really hard and think too much about the concept that it is hard for me to determine a specific one and focus on one thing/theme.

3 to ignore:

I think that all these rules are important and that they all should be looked over and understood for all designers but there is one that i think is a common that you should know and that is already a natural instinct would be the symmetry one, or at least it is to me, in that nothing should be symmetrical. This article was one that i found very beneficial and enjoyed reading.