I worked a lot with print design, doing odds and ends, jobs for different advertising agencies. Before that I worked in a role-playing store, as a librarian at a children's library, and studied English and Ancient History at the University of Copenhagen. Sometimes I wonder how I ever managed to get to where I am now. A year later the magazine folded, and I was hired as the second employee at a brand new Danish Internet agency. Your layouts are the tightest I've seen, and every element on your pages is interactive, surprising, and navigational.
Nothing is just there to look pretty.
And then more practice. It just took me a long time to figure this out - to say to myself, okay, write down some concepts that describe what you like and start doing stuff within the boundaries of those words. But most of us have to spend a lot of time practicing, honing our skills, and actually thinking about what we're doing. It's very thin line to balance on. Oh, I'm sure it's just getting started.