Not true about design
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- bainbridge0
Clients always have budgets.
- bainbridge0
Programmers can make your designs happen.
- bainbridge0
Clients are smart and listen to you.
- nb0
Design is interesting.
- Julesvm0
the best work wins the pitch
- bainbridge0
Small studios are more creative and fun than large firms and agencies.
- freedom0
Junior level jobs teach you things and you won't get stuck doing production.
- iCanHazQBN0
"graphic design will change the world" -scarabin
Relative to most professions, graphic design (YOUR own skills, that most people do not possess) can help change the world. Effectively designed propaganda with a clear simple message can motivate large groups people. Look at the Obama Hope posters, Russian propaganda, the posters from WW2 (We Want You, etc.). Even those long vertical infographics that people create can plant seeds into our minds. Most people won't read a report about climate change, but they will read one of those pretty infographics.
We have more power than you think. But we do commercial stuff to pay the bills of course... and that stuff doesn't have much impact.
- true. my co-students were just led to believe we were all going to save the world. then we got stuck in jobs doing bullshitscarabin
- _niko0
You can make a decent living in this industry if your name's not Jim and you're not from Detroit.
- scarabin0
graphic design will change the world
- nb0
Designers are important.
- ETM0
That design isn't a commodity.
- Krassy0
You will spend more time designing than hanging out on QBN
- scarabin0
integrity is important
- freedom0
Flash is money.
- Projectile0
If you invest time learning action script...
- georgesIII0
that you will retire a designer
- freedom0
Some professionals are not hacks.