You could easily send so much time reading well-meaning online advice for designers that you never manage to do any work at all. Online, a consensus is rare, contradictions abound and one designer’s ‘wish I'd done that’ is another's clichéd worst nightmare. … The same goes for job and internship advice: be yourself but fit into the ‘studio culture’; make the tea but don't look like a suck-up; make an impression but your work needs to speak for itself; don't work for free but do an internship for less than minimum wage and work just as late as everyone else. Always ‘Work Hard and Be Nice To People’ but in a system that might not be nice back. With the amount of conflicting advice on offer it’s easy to get into a rut of anxiety and uncertainty.
Theo Inglis on how the internet has complicated graphic design, from the latest issue of Shellsuit Zombie.
