sour sour times

In the past few weeks, it has become clear to me that I have some skill in the realm of print design.

Keeping in mind that I have no Illustrator or Photoshop to work with on my office computer, I am forced to harness Word to its fullest extend.

It comes as no surprise that the talent for design that I show some promise in is the talent for recreating poor design. Make no mistake, purposefully bad design isn’t as easy as you may think.

It takes a certain…. I don’t know what… to decide to create storefront signage using Comic Sans. It is not second nature to everyone to use italics in order to highlight important and also random words in an advertisement fax.

Last week I was given the single most hilarious and super-fun task to do at my job. It involved creating several documents using bad, but believable design. To my surprise, and perhaps to the surprise of my boss, I not only excelled at this task – but also told him that it was the most fun I have had since I started working here 3 years ago.

This all strikes me as being kind of amusing, particularly because I had never really stopped to consider whether I had any talent or inclination for print design.

I am not sure why I had not considered it, but now I think I will. I wonder if I could have as much fun doing *good* design.