According to you...

[wez312]

What would YOU say are the top five mistakes a beginning designer can make? (having to do with their actual designs)

I want to use this information for an ad I'm making for a design company in my electronic imaging class.

Thanks
Will

[Craig B]

1. Too many fonts in one design
2. Bad grid/eye movement/composition
3. Grunge brushes
4. aligning objects to the center
5. overall bad typography (font choices, kerning, leading, etc.)

Those were just 5 that came to my mind.

[frankster]

another obvious one: Not giving design elements enough room to breathe

[Craig B]

Definitely Frankster ... I was lame and used the my catch all "bad grid/eye movement/composition" to cover things like that ...

:)

[Virgo Nightingale]

1. Overusing gradients, drop shadows, bevel/emboss, stroke, Photoshop filters
2. Unbalanced composition
3. Inappropriate use of particular fonts (like a fancy girly font for a car ad, etc.)
4. Upsampling
5. Not enough contrast when placing colored text on a colored background

[carter the artist]

becoming designers?

[ecsyle]

hmMmMm..
let meh think..
yeah..
y0ur right..
y0u 2 craig & virg0 ..
hihi:D
h0w are y0u guyz?! what the ****?

[Craig B]

apparently sarah's "o" is broken ...

[Buda]

Can someone please fix it fast?

[PrintDriver]

1. Forgetting to call the Printer first
2. Forgetting to call the Printer first
3. Forgetting to call the Printer first
4. Forgetting to call the Printer first
5. Forgetting to call the Printer first