graphic artist or graphic designer? 3636 Responses

Last post: 5 years ago | Thread started: Jun 18, 08, 2:06 p.m.

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• dan5382

  How would you want to title yourself and why? I wikipedia'd it and well they were clumped together but my HR manager is telling me they have 2 different pay ranges. So please help!!

  Jun 18, 08, 2:06 p.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  I like the sound of graphic designer.

  • me too!– moogoo

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:07 p.m. – Permalink

• philipdrumman

  designers pretty up stuff and artists do it from scratch.
  Does this help?
  In the end its ladies choice

  • you're obviously an art director or an artist. artists do more drawing and rendering of pictures and designers do that and the strategy and the design.– graphicart211/2

    nah thats bollocks, they're different things– modern2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  imo, 'artists' make shit designers and vice versa. I'm generalising horrifically, obviously, but the substance remains true.

  • True– modern

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink

• honest

  how about 'expensive'?

  • How about 'Leather'?– philipdrumman1/2

    or Office Shaman– philipdrumman2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:09 p.m. – Permalink

• MSTRPLN

  Even more choice:

  Artistic Designer or Designing Artist

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:09 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  artist...sounds more like your an illustrator
  graphic...are more general also its mostly used

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink

• Vicentvangogh

  graphic artist > sounds 70ish...
  I personally prefer > visual designer, Ph.D

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:16 p.m. – Permalink

• dirtydesign

  art director

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:17 p.m. – Permalink

• Dr_Rand

  a graphic artist is good at spray painting vans and stuff like that

  • yup– marychain1/3

    very true.
    – dan53822/3

    ... and 80's sunglasses– kodap3/3

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:20 p.m. – Permalink

• flyingnowhere

  i consider myself a "Media Architect"

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:20 p.m. – Permalink

• honest

  "logo(pen•is) enlarger"

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  just keep depositing my checks.

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  designer + illustrator

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:25 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  visual designer isn't that bad doh. but i am sure your HR dept person don't have any salary range on that title. as its just an other name for graphic designer.

  art director are suppose to be a, or two level up from graphic designer...even do many students use the work directly after grad.
  the salary range are of-course higher there.

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink

• 23kon

  a lot of guys recently have been posting up their folios onto QBN asking for crits, and a their work seems to be more illustration based graphic design rather than typography/logo/web design.

  i think id describe these guys as graphic artists

  whereas people like myself who do typography/web/logo etc is more graphic design

  • fair shout– avolve

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink

• marchelo

  regarding to the everyday joe/jane view, anything "attached to artist," gets paid less. choose designer, you'll make more money.

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:29 p.m. – Permalink

• philipdrumman

  

  • He actually is from a town I used to live in!– dan5382

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:33 p.m. – Permalink

• Dr_Rand

  van spraypaint architect

  • van spraypaint brand architect– Dr_Rand1/2

    graphic mastermind– philipdrumman2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:34 p.m. – Permalink

• 23kon

  around 2000 it was funny when everyone was calling themselves daft names for website designers.
  remember the guys from Kerb had job names like "web monkey" on their business cards hehe.

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:43 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  I design

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 08, 2:44 p.m. – Permalink