From the course: Graphic Design: Insight and Advice

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Have you ever been shocked by a design?

Have you ever been shocked by a design?

From the course: Graphic Design: Insight and Advice

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Have you ever been shocked by a design?

- I don't know that I've been shocked by a design. I have encountered designs that were extremely impressive to me, meaning they moved me a bit, and the most recent one I encountered last month in San Francisco, it's LinkedIn's new "You're closer than you think" campaign. When I went to the hotel in San Francisco and there's this 11-foot image at the end of the hall of this astronaut, a young woman in full astronaut gear, you know with the lights coming off of her helmet and all of that, and she's kind of looking forward with wonder and anticipation, and you could feel in her a sense of achievement and at the same time some apprehension and some frailty, and just across her face was written in very light type, "You're closer than you think, LinkedIn," and that was an impressive image that I just stopped and looked at that thing for quite a while, and then I went into the next room and they had this five-panel panorama that was at least eight feet tall of a closeup of the moon, "You're…

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