writing, writing, writing

originally written on March 17, 2009

I never knew how important it would be to be able to verbally communicate my thoughts before coming to CMU. With my fear of dealing with ‘words’ at all and english being my second language, I used to be terrified whenever I had to ’say’ something or ‘write’ something instead of ‘drawing’ or ‘visualizing’ it. Thankfully though, as a design major, I can rely on visuals to get across my ideas, but at times I’m asked to write, even jot down what I think, or to actually create some contents myself for some of the typography projects. Especially the idea that communication designer is not merely a person who ‘beautify’ the content that’s given to him/her, but rather a person who has his/her own voice to really change the way the content is conveyed makes it even more important to be able to ‘write’ and ‘edit’ properly. So this is why I’m trying to post stuff on my blog regardless of its crappiness. And hopefully I will keep myself up for blogging and get closer to becoming a more capable designer.