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My Personal Story of Becoming a Designer - DESK Magazine

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At 15 I stopped going to school. I was a troublemaker in school and constantly at the edge of repeating the class due to horrible grades. I think generally there are many reasons for it, but one of them was that I grew up in a rather "poor" family, well financially at least. I'm not taking this as an excuse, but let me give you some more context. We just moved from Germany to Austria into a tiny village. And besides having little money, this of course made me & my family the perfect outsiders. I mean, just imagine this German family with a strong German accent moving into a tiny village on the Austrian countryside. My nickname was essentially "Nazi" or "Piefke", which is a slightly friendlier version of  calling you a Nazi. Getting insulted & called this way was kind of part of my childhood there, but I eventually got used to it. It also started to get better once I learned the proper Austrian dialect so I could hide the fact that I'm from Germany. I figured early on that these kids ar

--> My Personal Story of Becoming a Designer - DESK Magazine Articles Series Colors New Mixtapes Signup Reading Club New My Personal Story of Becoming a Designer by Tobias van Schneider Published Jan 15, 2017 One of the questions I get the most is how I became a designer. To be honest, my story isn't really something you want to follow and it's everything else but romantic. But let me tell you the story as good as I can remember (it's a compressed version). At 15 I stopped going to school. I was a troublemaker in school and constantly at the edge of repeating the class due to horrible grades.

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