Lies about graphic design
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- GeorgesII0
when they hire you and tell you, you'll rarely do weekends or overnights
- bored2death0
You'll be able to express yourself AND get paid!
- 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!
- yurimon0
I have a friend who bought a mansion in Connecticut. It was a fixer upper but It was a weekend home from a graphic designer in late 1920's.
I couldn't believe it. but I did some research and I found that in the 1920's to design a cover for a magazine was something like 5k. doesn't sound like much but 5k in the 1920's
- zoozoo0
young people are better at it
- or...
older people are better at it.randommail - Are we still talking about design?Chimp
- or...
- renderedred0
Oh, yes, that yellow really makes it come alive!
- autoflavour0
just make the logo bigger, trust me, it will look better
- Horp0
My first illustration commission... literally my first, with no portfolio or anything, earned me close to £20k.
"Bullshit" you'll say. But its true.
Never earned anything like again that for an illustration from there on.
- In fact my first 6 illustrations were all for one client and must have netted me over 100k over about two years.Horp
- Then I decided to go into illustration. Got an agent, he took three months to get me a commission, and said...Horp
- "Its a big commission! Three thousand pounds!". I said "3K? tell the client to fuck off". I was disgusted.Horp
- Five years later and I'd have been very happy indeed if an illustration commission had paid me £3K.Horp
- Wait till this type of trend hits doctors and lawyers.yurimon
- This sounds like Argentina, doctors are quite low paid here.Chimp
- utopian0
Make the logo smaller.
- MrT0
Just put it in the presentation, they'll never go for it.
- This!!!Sneakybadger2
- hahahaha, too fucking true.ian
- It's like they know, and they pick the 'filler' option just to piss you off.orrinward2
- +1,000,000Daithi
- fails everytimeali
- this was said once, they actually chose it and it brought in 750,000 (US) in salestimeless
- so i'll disagree on this onetimeless
- yurimon0
bollocks!
- fooler0
I am totally aging myself but...
"You'll need to know how to cut rubylith and draw with this non repo blue pencil just incase the power goes out and you can't use Page Maker to make the deadline"- how do you even KNOW about the internet? Free offer in one of your type spec books?
MrAbominable
- how do you even KNOW about the internet? Free offer in one of your type spec books?
- d_rek0
The designer is always right.
- ok_not_ok0
You to learn HTML5 and CSS.
- hotroddy0
you can liquidate the stocks pay you in a year
- doesnotexist0
collaboration gets the best results
- brandon_phillip0
GIGO - yes, garbage in creates garbage out, but I have seen more garbage come out of very talented graphic designers who never got to expand on their best ideas - due to clients opinions and decisions.