What the hell do you do??
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- kStyle
Can anyone relate:
Random Person: "So what do you do?"
Me: "I am a Digital Designer"
Random Person gives blank stare
Me: "You know, like digital media, new media design"
Radom Person: "Oh so you design? Like graphic design?"
Me: "No, graphic design is print. I do more on-screen stuff"
Me: "You know, like web, animation, digital video. . ."
Random Person: "Oh so you make web sites! I made a website once in front page"
Me: :-(How do you new media people deal with this?
- vespa0
i think us new media people are still graphic designers...? we make graphics!
- moth0
graphic design is print?
that's not quite true.
Is that you in your profile?
- _salisae_0
sure. go to school and study graphic design.
- tymeframe0
agree with vespa
- skt0
I tell them I deal in small arms
- rasko40
I understand that perhaps having in depth knowledge of every career is in fact NOT inate knowledge.
- Blofeldt0
I say graphic designer
- kStyle0
In most universities in the U.S. graphic design major is print. Most job positions graphic design is print...
Yes its me. . .
- jox0
I think motion designers do print *cough cough
no, wait...
- kStyle0
I guess its just me then. . .
- dippy0
the whole graphic design is print thing is beside the point.
The point is, random people don't even know what graphic design is. No matter what medium you work in (print, web, anim, etc.), the average person has no idea what you do. Remember that Aussie vid where they interviewed random people about design?
- canuck0
I just tell people I am a graphic designer. I feel like a loser when I tell them I make Web sites for a living.
* Hey you make Web sites too eh? My 12 year old kid does that, hes pretty good at it he's going to make our company site for us.
wankers.
- smellvetica0
I'm not getting into this.
- mitsu0
ex kgb. don't front.
- mg330
Is that a graphic on your web site?
Did you design it?End of discussion.
- moth0
smellvetica.
I just recalled a certain story about you trying to get into a certain kebab shop.I laughed... ;)
- skt0
I do cringe when I say i'm a web designer. Yeah thanks all you Hoxton cock hats for making my job into a parody of itself.
Yes you lot!!
- vespa0
my actual job title is "Interactive Designer for interactive TV in the User Experience Design Group".
pfft. i tell people graphic designer cos my own eyes glaze over before i finish saying it.
- spendogg0
I get stuff like that all the time.
What do you do?
+ I am a creative director
For what?
+ You know advertising, design, production design, and events.
Blank stare
+ Uh - i am a grapic desgner.
Oh, i did some of that in college.
+ smiles and nods head - walk away
alway fun
- kStyle0
Sorry . . .apprently a lot of people are offended. . .I went to a school with a graphic design major and a digital design major so I guess I am accustomed to saying I am not a graphic designer. . .
Was just tryin the describe my frustration when I try to explain to people what I do. . .