Lies about graphic design
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"As a kid in the late 70s & 80s then a teen through the 90s, I saw Graphic Design as being a lucrative career that would attain all of the above"
For a period of time, it was a lucrative career. There were very few practitioners, and a massive gap in knowledge between those that did it and those that didn't.
When I started out in the 80's, the words 'freelance graphic designer' didn't mean 'knob-jockey' or 'utter twat', they meant a fucking nice house in the country, a Porsche, nice clothes and holidays, a fuck load of time off to enjoy the world. My first career ambition, aged 16, was to become a 'freelance graphic designer'.
I achieved that ambition when I graduated in 1993, but it was already losing its kudos by then.
I used to be in awe of a bunch of freelance graphic designers who would be drafted in at my first place of work in the mid 80's though. They were like fucking superstars... this was in Birmingham England.
They were proficient in a wide range of highly skilled techniques and procedures from 'being pure creative' to scamping, and sketching concepts, advanced visualisation and mock-ups, typesetting and finished artwork, and as they left the studio they'd drop an immaculately designed, pre-printed and hand-written invoice on the studio manager's desk, then climb into their 911s and head into the countryside for healthy sportismanlike sex with some bronze, oiled, hardbody female they'd met the previous night in an exclusive wine bar.
The 80's, contrary to popular opinion, were fucking amazing.
You can thank Apple for making your career so shitty and unrewarding.
- Typography was a good career also. people accepted bad kerning for quick design and drop shadow effects.yurimon
- So true, the post and comment. I started my first internship in 1987. Was such a different profession then. I miss working with the type houses, too. I learned to refine type, rework the rag on columns, etc. I'm now feeling like Ineed to give that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev
- with the type houses, too. I learned to refine type, rework the rag on columns, etc. I'm now feeling like Ineed to give that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev
- that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev