Lies about graphic design
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- wordsarepictures
What rules and nuggets of advice were you told as a fledgeling designer that, over the course of your career, you've since found to be complete nonsense?
- wordsarepictures0
Starter: it's ok to do work for cool clients for free/very little money.
- identity0
The best known places do the best work.
- Douglas0
Stefan Sagmeister is a tranny.
- identity0
"You gotta get to New York"
- Hey! I'm in New York :) Good point about big cities though.
wordsarepictures
- Hey! I'm in New York :) Good point about big cities though.
- lvl_130
"we work hard, but we also play hard."
no. no you don't. you work people into the ground and then act as if they owe you a thank you when they buy the crew a 6-pack of beer and some burritos.
- unless of course you really love burritos! well then play on playa'!lvl_13
- "play hard" usually means that annual company event they spend bank on that no one wants to go to anywaymoldero
- haha, that too.lvl_13
- you will be browbeaten if you use the foozball tablescarabin
- we, as in 'they' play hard, while you work all night on deadlinessine
- Yeah, I was always the one opening in the morning and closing up at night.lemmy_k
- 1st job I worked 55hrs a week on £12k (2002) in London. No time or money to partyqTime
- DioPiata0
TNT for type. (Tight not touch). From an instructor at SVA, Skip Sorveno (Mia Sorveno's cousin). His rule for kerning.
- scarabin0
integrity matters
- MrT0
You'll never succeed with a strong regional accent - not said to me, but to a mate at college who has proved otherwise... http://www.robclarke.com
- Classicwordsarepictures
- Good one.nthkl
- What was his region? I'm freaking out, I'm freaking out, I'm freaking out. How will I ever make it in Canada with this Southern Accent?Pumpkin_baby
- No one cares where you're from in Canada.zarkonite
- akrok0
"there's plenty of jobs" - art school.
- Haha.nthkl
- +1wordsarepictures
- +1 Just before dotcom bustFallowDeer
- identity0
style = fart
- nthkl0
"Being nervous is a waste of time"...
I still get anxious and nervous when ramping up for a comp, before a pitch or during a presentation. Think it's just a part of the process that if I didn't get nervous otherwise, would prolly just produce crap work at a comfy gig. That nervous competition for success is still there :)
- sothere0
it's creative
- wordsarepictures0
What about some of the design basics: symmetry is bad, never more than 2 typefaces per project etc...
- bjladams0
if i was basing this on things that i gathered from school:
6 months to work on a logo.
- + endless of rounds.akrok
- starting with 80 tight sketches
notverycontrary
- evil10
It's okay if you have a boner while wearing sweatpants during the presentation.
- Miguex0
Starter: it's ok to do work for cool clients for free/very little money.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that one...
It's because of free/ little money 'cool clients' that I was able to direct what area of graphic design I'm working at today. Of course, they (clients) don't get to decide when its free or not, that's up to you (designer) and after evaluating what are the benefits of doing that.
- tOki0
I'm the client so I know what is best for me