CONNECTION IS KEY

Despite what others say, there are different types of intelligence out there; each with their individual type of effect on the world. Some say social intelligence, others memory, spacial intelligence, and something I like to think of as patterned intelligence or the ability to connect concepts/detect patterns.

Since humans naturally seek to create order in effort to better understand the world, suspect this sort of intelligence something both innate, as well as something the can be exercised/strengthened and generally benefit someone in almost every facet of their life with the design industy being no different.

That said, am a big believer the sooner you make those connections whether learning fundamentals, keeping a pulse on current trends, or similar applications/software, the better off you’ll be.

To illustrate this, below is just one example of compositional patterns often seen in a lot of popular key/movie promotional artwork. Look familiar? : )