From the course: Josh Higgins: How Caring Creates Opportunity

From a band to an education

- This is a story that I've heard several times. When designers look back on their earlier days, (calm music) they realize oh man I was already designing before I knew what that was. So, you know, Josh first was introduced to that through creating his posters for his band and all the gigs that they had and that was in the era of no computers, just old school all the way. - I don't even know what that's like. - Talked to me and said, "Hey I think you'd "be a really good designer." I used to make flyers for our shows and not knowing that that was designed. (upbeat music) I was cutting up type and using Xerox machines. - So yeah, you would do you'd do like those Xerox thing where you had cut it up, make.. did you draw on them too? - I drew on them with Sharpie, yeah. I remember, like, I cringe at it now, but I remembering like creating a logo for our band by, like, cutting out type from different Letraset specimens. Like totally combining, like, five type faces, you know, they'd like, look fine to me at the time and now I'm just like, oh how did you do that? But yeah. - You were resourceful. - Yeah, it was like, it was fun. I had so much fun doing it. I remember just like, I used to get kicked out of Kinko's and, you know, for those who are too young to remember it's FedEx offices, but-- - I remember Kinko's was such a lifeline for the designers. - Yeah, for sure they had computers, printers, everything. So yeah, she knew that history and she thought I'd be a good designer and then I took my first class was typography. I went and met the head of the department at San Diego City College. Her name was Candice Lopez and she was a professor from art center that had moved down to San Diego because her husband who's a pretty well know illustrator, Rafael Lopez, wanted to, like, live in San Diego and so she went to this community college and she said I want to start a graphic design program here. Anyway, that's how the program started and I'm like, I knocked on her... Like I met her about three years into that program, you know, and was introduced to her and she goes, "Well why don't you just take "my typography class. "That's a great introduction to design, "you can see if you like it or not." And so I took her class and that first year she brought down Doyald Young-- - Oh wow. - From art center to, like, talk to our class.

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