designer or tech wizard.
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- capitalJ0
i think in some round about way
you answered your own question
those people you mentioned are great designers for there versitility
to be good at print motion and web at the same time is quite hard to maintain and designing for each of said mediums are completely different
- ********0
exactly, you are what you are to make money
- 770
that's what subcontracting is for. do you think i really want to dick around with code and scripting all night?
i'm an idea guy not a calculus major.
- Hypo0
The thing is this. " 2 years ago I was on top of my game in webdesign, thats with html, flash, some swift whatever. Since moving back into design for print ( employment) over a year and a half ago, my web design skills stopped progressing. If I was out of work right now, id spend every hour of the day learning action scripting and 3d design, these I maybe would have developed over that year and a half If I was still working for a web firm. I got a passion for design there just aint enough hours in the day, not ones were Iam in the office anyway.
- blend30
I feel your pain man. I dropped out of web biz three years ago and decided to concentrate on a new rising industry. I was lucky. Interactive television has been real good to me this far. The thing is that a lot of things have advanced quite a lot in this time. A new entry to web biz will not be as easy as it was first time around.
I guess this is all part of the growing pains. They say that you know the most during high school. After that you start to specialize and learn tricks of a trade. So in case you want to switch jobs after a while you have to work with the baggage (those gained skills) or start anew. Of course it will be most beneficial to find something that works with your existing skillset.
So the big question is that you have to ask yourself what you really want to do. Where are you now? Then find out what takes you to the place where you want to be. It is a really healthy thing to ask yourself these hard questions once in while.
- dsmith70
maybe its just me, but do most of you push yourselves to learn new concepts and languages on your own? I try to have at least two good nights a week (at least working will 3am) to just learn and do my own thing.
Maybe I am just a freak, but my 9-5 is only satisfying enough to me a paycheck, for creative satisfaction I have to do it on my own.
- rh0
I guess I'm fortunate enough to have a creatively-stimulating job...
Gotta agree with Derek and the art history comment. The design concept should fuel the technology, not vice versa.
You're not a freak dsmith7 - I do the same thing, though I usually try to apply it to either a work project or my personal site. My designs usually benefit, and learning the tools give me new ideas of what's possible. I think we, as artists, are obligated to know our everchanging brushes -- just not paint for the sake of them.
- badzenjt0
i feel that tech can enhance design.
for me, design is more than just being good looking, its about functionality and creating something that people enjoy using. i say we all should use any method at our disposal. fuck it. our competitors will if we dont.
- Hypo0
dsmith 7, funny you said. I was just sitting here contemplating that maybe I should do some late nights in the week designing. Iam the same my job does not give me no creative output and no motivation. Its maybe why iam in this rut to start with. Anyway iam gonna join the Latenight Club.