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- leafsisback
As a Graphic Designer, or Computer Graphic Artist, How do you explain to your friends and family what you do?
I've explained it to my moms what I do and she looks at me with a blank look on her face.
I tell my friends and they laugh at me and pour beer down my pants.
My fellow co-workers says that he tells people that he makes things look pretty. Which I think is stupid. I want to have a good solid answer so people don't look at me like I have a gunshot wound. Help.
- vena0
"i work with computers"
and they just assume i'm a genius :)
- mrdobolina0
just explain that every product in the world needs packaging, a logo a web site etc. and you create those things.
- jox0
I'm "good at web shit".
Mom tells me to get a real job.
- vena0
haha, my father's favourite: "you can't do anything sitting in front of a television!"
he thinks the computer monitor is a television.
*sigh*
- Buckyball20
I tell them "I make the logo bigger."
bB
- vacuumx0
i'M playing the whole time with computers and get money for that shit :))
cheerz
- sp0
- cesar0
You gotta get an answer that is short and sweet.
I work with new media but I say i am a graphic artist for web development. I get alot of calls from people that I tell that to.Or maybe it is my good looks. he he............sorry.
- Mick0
This will blow peoples socks off...
"I help create the internet".
- Chip_Duggit0
I had to deal with this a lot in college. I learned early on that there were 2 categories that people fell into: those who need to know, and those who don't. For the ones that need to know, I explained that I was getting a BFA in Electronic Intermedia (yes it says that on the degree itself) which I simply explained was making art with computers, video and mechanical sculpture. Usually that would either shut them up, or begin some sort of intellectual conversation.
For the other group, I would make up stuff. The neat thing was I went to a university that had a really well regarded agricultural college. This meant that when I was out at a bar I could tell girls that I was studying to be a Veterinarian, which would instantly gain me points. Or I would tell drunken ugly girls that I was studying either Equine or Bovine Science and begin to tell stories about sticking my hand up a horse or cow's ass to deliver a calf, and then watch them squirm.
After I got my masters in digital imaging, the plot thickened, because now I am a pretty damn good photographer on top of all of these things, which means that I get asked to do all sorts of dumb crap. When people have a baby, I get called to take 'nice photos' of it, or design the announcements and all that crap. It never ends. Most of us can do one or more things that many people don't understand, but come in contact with every day, which means that they inevitably will ask you to do something for free as a 'favor' which will nearly always end in disaster.
I think the bottom line here is to just lie about what you do to most people. Tell them you do something either they can a) understand easily b) something they will never understand (i.e. Astro Biologist) or finally c) tell them something that is so boring that they won't ask again (street sweeper driver). If all else fails, tell them your a Golf Pro.
- Chip_Duggit0
The other really good one is to just tell people that you 'Build The Future'
- Biofreak0
i think it was paul rand who said this, and i cant quote it exactly, but i thought it was great!
he takes his mom to his show and she looks around and asks him... "so what do you do?"
he tells her that he "designs these pieces" so she nods and then asks "so you took the pictures?" and he says no, he hired someone else to do that.
she nods and says "so you wrote the copy?" he again says no...i someone else wrote the copy. she nods and asks again "so you hung these pieces?" he says no, i had someone else do that.his mom lowers her voice and asks him "you get paid for this?" he says yea and she whispers back smiling "you rascal!"
haha! something like taht anyway. i thought the story was priceless.
- Biofreak0
damn, or was it milton glaser.
i cant remember anymore.
- kodap0
My parents think i'm a homeless
- aquabotic0
i tell people "design is communication of ideas"
then they tell me "shutup gaylord"
then i say "so what you know you want it"
then we screw
the end
- Biofreak0
i think i like the aquabotic way better than my way.
oh, my way is something like this:
person: "so whatcha do eric?"
me: i make people stupid things look good so they will buy it."
- mitsu0
visual con artist
- clone0
i'm a dealer and a pusher.
generating nodes on request and pushing pixels to a client satisfactory position.
I'm an ass-kisser. even if it looks bad to me but not the client-SOLD gimme my money have a good day.
NEXT!
- mitsu0
i make icons in cornflower blue