At one point during this course, I sat down and considered what design means. From what I gathered, design is the specific arrangement of elements that building relationships and create this completed look. Initially, it sounded far away from my own artworks I’ve down in high school where I doodle random things onto the corner of my worksheets. But then I remembered the pile of bullet journals I started at the beginning of every year (but never finish), and it seems that maybe design isn’t as far away as I thought it was.
Bullet journaling also stresses the intentional placement and choice of shapes, pictures, icons, stickers, washi tapes, and color to create a planner that typically covers the entire year, though people usually work on it as the months pass by. People use various layouts, colors, drawings, and images to convey a theme for the month just like how the design takes small elements and built them into an entire system. The creative aspect, rather than the practical function, of bullet journaling, is what I enjoy the most. Here are example bullet journal spreads by Amanda Rach Lee, the person who tempted me into making one myself:
