Lies about graphic design
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- wordsarepictures0
Yurimon that link makes me really sad.
- identity0
Now you're just making me feel bad.
Doesn't bother me - might for some.
Thanks for taking the high-road, regardless.
Was good to see it made - and in the Museum of Contemporary Art's bookstore :-)
- wordsarepictures0
Had no idea it was even in there, very cool! Wonder where else it will turn up? But no, don't feel bad! I should feel bad! Kind of a race to the finish line so I'll supply the publishers with new text for the next run, fair is fair :)
- qTime0
Look at this former student who is mega successful, you will all be like him...
- qTime0
The interest on your student load is so small you'll hardly notice it.
- wordsarepictures0
Starter: it's ok to do work for cool clients for free/very little money.
- d_rek0
Going to one 'Big Name Art/Design School' will make you more desirable as an employee post graduation.
- MrAbominable0
...that you can't crowd-source your way to the top.
- identity0
The best known places do the best work.
- attentionspan0
it's fun
- 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.
- 23kon0
Where is my mansion?
Where is my collection of sports cars?
Where is my expensive yet sustainable cocaine habit?
Where is all da biatches?
Where is my second home in a hot country?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.
Sadly I was misled.
- wordsarepictures0
Thanks for chiming in guys, appreciated.
- ETM0
There are and will always be those that do and don't know the value of a professional. Just this week I had someone involved in a larger project I am on approach me for a small project. Super basic, 3 pages, simple design. I told them that honestly they could get something like this on Squarespace for $8 a month versus paying me a couple thousand. They said they know, but at the end of the day,they don't want o have to deal with it and to have someone
- newuser0
If you do crappy work for crappy clients, it will lead to better work.
- 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
- newuser0
They are artists.