What Rulers are you Allowed to Break as a Designer?

Design is a way to communicate ideas and feelings to the world around you. The article talks about rules, creative anarchy, and how to start anarchy in your personal projects.

 Denise Bosler, the author of “Creative Anarchy at Its Very Best”, agues that rule are guidelines for a Graphic Designer but most of the are meant to be broken. Bosler talks about how a graphic designer has to understand what the client wants in order to make a great logo. Sometimes its go to stay with a classical route while other times you need to be rebellious. “You have to learn the rulers before you can broke them,” Bosler states.

The author does a great job at adding the five e-Comm guarantees. Bosler writes about how a designer has to collaborate with the client. Each person has to put time and research into each project, not just students! She talks about fonts and colors. She makes a point to be creative but not willy-nilly. As a student designer I would like to know the rulers I can break. Bosler always talks about rulers, but I don’t know those rulers.

Overall, Bosler did a great job getting the information to me. Her writing didn’t sound like I was reading a text book. I love that she tells us to 

For more information check out the book: Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rulers off Graphic Design for Creative Success by Denise Bosler.