While writing my first post for this website, I was a little lost on what to write initially. I love writing, but I always wrote to be more personal. I’m not someone who craves attention on social media. Still, it’s important as someone learning graphic design to post about yourself, or else your art will never be seen.
Well.. What is there to start with? I’m Kaiden (any pronouns), and I’m 20, almost 21. I’m in the Graphic and Web Design program at John Abbott College. I’ve always loved art as a kid, then hated it at one point, then grew to love it once again.
Rant on graphic design
I went into this program uncertain about the future; generative AI has been available to the public for going on 4 years now. Why would I still bother to learn graphic design when businesses can get tasks done quicker and cheaper with AI?
What inspires me nowadays isn’t just what I grew up with that encouraged me to be creative, but I want to exist out of spite. I want to design with my blood, sweat, and tears. It’s okay to be flawed and to be human after all. My reason to design is so I can speak louder than whatever I can write. Art is political, even when people assume otherwise. I believe art is important to show what it was like to live in that time.
So far in my program, I love using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator a ton. I especially love the two apps to paint digitally. I don’t like Adobe as a company though, they’re an awful company that doesn’t care about graphic designers. They removed Flash and Animate, and replaced it with AI garbage. Every time I see an Adobe advertisement online, it’s always to show off their AI features, and not what you can do without it. If it wasn’t for the free subscriptions at my school, I would’ve sailed the seven seas.
To conclude..
This is only the beginning of my website, however if you wish to see what I’m up to on this website as well as anything else, stay! Follow me on Instagram or on Tumblr(@kaidenfaille) to see my stuff! I really want to get into posting again by the end of this year.
Thank you, whoever you are, for taking the time to see this bare bones of a website, and for reading my small little rant of a blog post. Make sure to eat and drink water today, and you are loved, whether or not you think you are. Hope to see you soon! 🙂
Love, Kaiden xx
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