Lies about graphic design
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- gramme0
The idea that we have to work long hours, because the world will burn otherwise. This applies especially to the young designers. You do not have to pay your dues by forfeiting weekends and relationships. There is no such thing as a graphic design emergency.
I recently decided to close for business abruptly at 6 pm every day. It's changed my life. I get more excited to come back to work the next day, because I go home and have a life. Clients who call or email at night/on weekends get ignored until the next business day.
- There is no glory is having a total lack of boundaries.gramme
- < thisKnuckleberry
- As long as there is an over supply of designers, employers will exploit this with long hoursChimp
- This, but for me it's 5pm. Even 6pm seems late.ETM
- Well, I roll in around 9, sometimes 9:30. So I start later than some.gramme
- i agree with you gramme.. i learned the hard wayhektor911
- THIS! Everyone should heed this.LittleRich
- tOki0
I'm the client so I know what is best for me
- dbloc0
I'm way too busy with freelance right now. I don;t think I can fit you in.
- zoozoo0
go fast
- tank020
Aye Gramme!
- notverycontrary0
Design has the power to change the world.
- 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
- randommail0
The process is important.
- i_monk0
Print is dead.
- lodef0
Thanks to the PC, anybody can do it!
- wordsarepictures0
Hey, wanted to thank everyone that contributed (relatively sensibly for once!) to this thread. The result is my first self-authored book - Popular Lies About Graphic Design - which is available for pre-order now in the USA and within the next week or so in the UK and EU. Thanks again, C
- brought to you by the letters A. I. G. A.MrAbominable
- what! I want a credit and a paying for this!qTime
- monoboy0
That it's anything other than just a job...
- HahahaqTime
- Fogot about this one. Damn this happens to me a lot lolGlitterati_Duane
- LOL @ web address.newuser
- Brilliant!
ameri84
- wordsarepictures0
You can find some sample spreads and more info here:
http://wordsarepictures.wordpres…
I managed to get contributions from Sagmeister, Carson, Milton Glaser, James Victore, Paul Sahre and a bunch of others so, I feel pretty optimistic about it.
- meffid0
"We have a free open bar, drink whenever you want"
- BusterBoy0
Don't worry about the money...it'll look good in your portfolio.
- 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
- randommail0
Being able to work in jeans and showing up at 10:30 is way better than having to wear a suit every single day and getting in at 8:30.
Plus, all the cool things at the office like foosball, ping pong, video games, and music totally make the 90,000 salary worth it. Much better than being a boring suit who makes 10x that.
- d_rek0
@wordsarepictures
nice! I'll put in a pre-order for our studio. Did any contributions from the q00b make it in the book?
- Thanks for the support d_rek, a couple of suggestions did get me started.wordsarepictures