Lies about graphic design
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- wordsarepictures0
Ha hah, where was that back in February!? I'll pencil it in for the follow up if it sells well :)
- oey0
this is so good!
- utopian0
Make the logo smaller.
- ok_not_ok0
You to learn HTML5 and CSS.
- hotroddy0
you can liquidate the stocks pay you in a year
- mekk0
120% is the best line-space
- Daithi0
Lie: It's all about picking typefaces and colours
Truth: It's all about picking people (partners, clients, suppliers)
- pig0
The computer is just a tool
- Funnily enough this is the Lie Sagmeister refuted for his contribution.
wordsarepictures
- Funnily enough this is the Lie Sagmeister refuted for his contribution.
- 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.
- d_rek0
Going to one 'Big Name Art/Design School' will make you more desirable as an employee post graduation.
- attentionspan0
it's fun
- 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.
- albums0
First and foremost, the criticism here is useless and usually results in design by committee, something this board also bemoans, in short, ignore qbn design advice as a whole.
The lie here being qbn is good for you.
- It's criticism BECAUSE things are usually design by committee, which slowly grinds down our design school dreams (lies).i_monk
- i_monk0
Print is dead.
- lodef0
Thanks to the PC, anybody can do it!
- Horp0
"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"
For a period of time, it was a lucrative career. There were very few practitioners, and a massive gap in knowledge between those that did it and those that didn't.
When I started out in the 80's, the words 'freelance graphic designer' didn't mean 'knob-jockey' or 'utter twat', they meant a fucking nice house in the country, a Porsche, nice clothes and holidays, a fuck load of time off to enjoy the world. My first career ambition, aged 16, was to become a 'freelance graphic designer'.
I achieved that ambition when I graduated in 1993, but it was already losing its kudos by then.
I used to be in awe of a bunch of freelance graphic designers who would be drafted in at my first place of work in the mid 80's though. They were like fucking superstars... this was in Birmingham England.
They were proficient in a wide range of highly skilled techniques and procedures from 'being pure creative' to scamping, and sketching concepts, advanced visualisation and mock-ups, typesetting and finished artwork, and as they left the studio they'd drop an immaculately designed, pre-printed and hand-written invoice on the studio manager's desk, then climb into their 911s and head into the countryside for healthy sportismanlike sex with some bronze, oiled, hardbody female they'd met the previous night in an exclusive wine bar.
The 80's, contrary to popular opinion, were fucking amazing.
You can thank Apple for making your career so shitty and unrewarding.
- Typography was a good career also. people accepted bad kerning for quick design and drop shadow effects.yurimon
- So true, the post and comment. I started my first internship in 1987. Was such a different profession then. I miss working with the type houses, too. I learned to refine type, rework the rag on columns, etc. I'm now feeling like Ineed to give that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev
- with the type houses, too. I learned to refine type, rework the rag on columns, etc. I'm now feeling like Ineed to give that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev
- that up because deadlines just dont allow for it anymore.Josev