Why you should question graphic conventions

I found this article really interesting. A few years into my job I was having a hard time sticking with the graphic standards, everything was becoming very monotonous and I felt like I needed a change. I started doing my work based on the standards and then doing a few designs outside of the standards, my boss liked my new designs and I started to rework other jobs. Then last year the Graphics Coordinator and I sat down with our standards manual and scrapped the stuff that wasn't working and made some new rules that we could live by and not feel too restrained.