Research the work of graphic designers that interest you. How do they use visual language? What is it about the work that you admire? Make notes on their work, your reflections on it and note down aspects of it that you could use as a starting point yourself.
I follow many different pages on social media which are related to graphic design. However, most of them don’t have any information about the actual artist. My favourite page that I like to observe goes by the name “Success Pictures”. The goal of the page is to create content to inspire people, I feel fascinated by the way that they do this. They use examples of real life situations and famous quotes and slogans which they then interpret by creating pictures. Here are a few examples which they designed.
I am always amazed by the designs that this page comes up with and I can tell that their work requires a lot of lateral thinking. I enjoy creative approaches to tasks instead of obvious ideas. These are aspects which I would like to use in my own designs.
OCA Graphic Design 