Response: More Trends

It was great hearing the rest of the trends presentations this past week. Something I found comforting was the fact that we were all able to find designers who are diverse and represent incredibly different aspects of the design world. Sometimes I get anxious about graduating and trying to find a job in what seems like such a niche career field of magazine designing. What we've been trained for at MU can take us in a number of directions...not necessarily to New York to design for Martha Stewart (which hey, wouldn't be too bad). I think it's just so important to be flexible in the skills we've learned. There are designers all over, doing some really cool and different work. Hearing about the designers from cool magazines I've never even heard of, like Paste and Relevant, to designers who own their own firms, to more big name designers. There are hundreds of areas out there to become designers.