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I wanted to be a graphic designer since I was seven. I saw some drawings in a magazine by some guy and he was credited for being a graphic designer. My primary school teacher told me his sister-in-law was a designer and she was pretty rich. It sounded like a good career and I have no regrets.
Why did you get into design?
- scarabin0
while bored waiting for food with my mom as a toddler she used to give me napkins and pens to draw with. since then my life has taken an artistic route, and one day a psychologist asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up. i had never thought of it before, but i had heard of something called "graphic arts" and it sounded fun, so that's what i said.
around 18 i stumbled on some design websites including evilpupil, superbad, vr2l, and tripped out on how abstract and artistic they were. here were websites with no real intent except to be pieces of art, so i taught myself javascript, html, photoshop, and flash and started making experimental websites of my own. weird flash installations, etc. i started using these new skills to design websites for clients as well. i did that for a couple years.
after discovering an obsession with designing packages for cds 'n' shit i decided print was the way to go. my roommate just graduated from a design school. i went there, took the tour, fell in love with all the mad pussy and art scene going on, and quickly signed up.
i took an internship at the ad agency i work at now, where i combine a passion of video games and movies to create film and game posters, magazine ads, billboards, pop displays etc.
- scarabin0
plus, all other professions suck
seriously, who wants to sell people shit all day or do manual labor
- clerk0
mainly because the best looking girls went to design school...
- BONE0
girls
- gruntt0
i was always a creative kid growing up. took all the art classes available.
when i was a teenager my mother and step-father opened their own design studio so I basically grew up with it.
- Crouwel0
"It sounded like a good career and I have no regrets."
are you pretty rich?
only the absolute horrible designers here make lots of money.
- Crouwel0
here = where i live
- spongebob0
I just got out of being a designer. I realized after 3 years of working that I don't really have the talent for it.
I started cos I made a wrong choice at graduation, then subsequently thinking that I could make it work.
- not_report0
for the fame.
- madino0
it was a hobby while i was growing up, drawing and creating skateboard graphics starting in 1987. Now, it is still a hobby and I get paid for it!!
- honest0
i am not rich yet, but I'll die trying
- Goozebump0
hey scaravin u have a link to erowid, u live trippin on them shrooms egh?
- Dancer0
I enjoy wading through tubs of shit and then coming out smelling like roses......
Sometimes
and the Girls!
- jamble0
I honestly got into design because I knew I would be able to wear jeans and trainers to work and listen to music all day.
- Dancer0
lol@jambel
everyone is soooo jealous
- moveinspace0
to influence the world.
- scarabin0
hey scaravin u have a link to erowid, u live trippin on them shrooms egh?
goozebump
(Aug 23 05, 05:51)when i was around 18 i started making my own incense and stuff using various herbs, roots, resins, etc.
a couple years ago i started experimenting with using certain psychoactive ones
i found erowid to be a great place to research these plants
i haven't tried mushrooms yet, but i've been itching to...
- mrdobolina0
screenprinting for a living gets tiresome, so does painting bikes.
- skt0
and the Girls!
Dancer
(Aug 23 05, 05:52)Where are all these girls. There ain't a huge amount in webdesign as far as I can tell.
I think I need a better job.
- scarabin0
i think one of my main motivations in getting into design is to turn the tables on a system i saw dominated by corporations using ads to control people
i'd much rather be the shepherd than the sheep