Design revolution?

Neville Brody once said “When I started out [as a designer] I had a feeling I could change things. There was a sense of revolution.” What he describes is the exact same feeling as the one I have, and perhaps the same as many others. But reading the quote we understand that Brody doesn’t have the sense of revolution anymore. Where did it go? Does it magically disappear for everyone after a couple of years of “growing into” the business?

This sense of revolution is equally exciting and frustrating; exciting because it makes me so passionate about what I do and it challenges my way of thinking about design and life in general; and frustrating because it’s so difficult to find any real answers to the questions I’m asking myself. At the same time I’m afraid that this feeling someday will go away, that I will turn ignorant and apathetic, that I will do any design job just for the money or for the prestige. That is my greatest fear at this point; that I will stop trying. I would rather try to be a designer with integrity and fail, than to give up completely. Because every failure brings new hope and we learn from those failures and when the next obstacle comes along we can say to ourselves: “I will figure out how to do it this time”.