Hey guys

Olá and welcome to the forum! Good question. There are clearly very differing approaches in answering this one. I’ll weigh in.

I like to think that I live with a “keep the main thing the main thing” mentality. I try to focus on, learn about, and share the things in life that are most important. For instance, “the big topics” might be the types of things I would actually disagree, or argue with people about. However, there are a lot of things that don’t fit that category. Things that are ancillary, like opinions and personal interests, well those are just fun and interesting. I like learning about other people’s interests, even if they might seem strange to me.

This plays out in my design work in the fact that my favorite principle of design is “focus”. Although there are many different ways this can play out, most of the time, you are going to see my work reflect that by having the most important imagery and information being designed in a way that makes it the clear center of focus for the composition. I don’t like to make things “muddled” and am not very good at that, although I can see why in some instances that might be advantageous to do so.

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