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- capn_ron0
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(request for advice)My wife is contemplating a career change and became interested in graphic design. She sees what I do and wants to learn. The problem is that I come from a heavy print background and don't want her feeling like that is all design is.
I am looking for any advice on programs, classes, etc. to help her get a start. She wants to help her dad start a custom drum business, so i think she can learn all of that while helping him (me on the side as well).
What would you tell a person just starting out interested in design to do?
- i've been looking at coursera, dribbble, and skillshare as tools so far.capn_ron
- AI prompt engineer ;)monospaced
- This needs a seperate thread, but my first suggestion would be 'Just Do It'. I have a client who's done as much and has come on real strong over 2 yearsNairn
- she started out doing 'one thing' then found herself increasingly developing her graphic and type skills. She's not brilliant, but she's good enough, so £Nairn
- that aside, from everything i read here - now is not a greast time to be getting into GD, lol. SO perhaps as @monospaced suggests - big up the AINairn
- @mono - i'm going to be showing her what i know about AI for sure. At least so she can visualize ideas to create.capn_ron
- @nairn, such good advice. I told her she should do some research for her dad's company and then concept a logo and feel overall.capn_ron
- I feel like this is the best way for her to actually start without overthinking and it will feel productive because it can be used ultimately.capn_ron
- I would love if she could come up with a mood board and brand exploration for her dad to then have a solid idea of something to create.capn_ron
- I fancied switching from design a few years back when we were renovating our house. I liked the idea of being a tiler, good job satisfaction i thought...microkorg
- ...until i spoke to a tiler. Fuct knees, carrying tons of tiles up stairs to flats. Fuck that.
Same with being a designer , as nairn said, not a good time...microkorg - Beginner or designers with low skill level are up against AI and that will only increase over the next year.microkorg
- Advice would maybe be to start out with some small freelance or fun projects to see if she's cut out for it. She might find she enjoys managing design more.microkorg
- Then to get a job at any type of agency you'd have to build up a folio of work of a professional standard. Unless you've got natural talent it could takemicrokorg
- years to get to that kind of level.microkorg
- Horp2
I did a Q&A with Semiovox in NY which you can read if you want to but no worries if you don't I don't fucking care man. Fuck you. You are not my dad.
*smokes reefer, self harms*
- Horp1
Also, does anyone else quite fancy the Temu ad lady?
I don't know what it is but I cannot get enough of her being all bouncy and full of joy.
I want to live in her happy world. A place where people jump enthusiastically to turn round and talk to the person behind them.
A place where you can randomly prod your finger at your phone and your face lights up, and your hair blows about.
A place where you are so pleased with your $9 dress that you stand in front of a full length mirror and dance like you have just heard music for the first time, and it's made your body go all jiggly.
A place where decision making is simplified down to "I like it, yep, it's mine" because the prices drive you out of your mind.
Oh Temu, I don't want to buy any of your horrific cheap shite, but can we cuddle?
- maquito1
I can’t sleep. I have a big presentation tomorrow morning. TikTok is worth than meth. I’ll have to consume a lot of coffee tomorrow.
- sted0
for all the dumb fucks who think they know it all:
https://www.researchgate.net/pub…
fucking hate these people especially when i cynically mention something like this in a conversation and the person agrees with me without even thinking that I was talking about his level of BS lol
- Dunning and Kruger want a word.Nairn
- yeah fuck. to distinguish between knowledge and information is what makes you a real human being in 2023 is what I'm starting to believe it more and more.sted
- *drunksted
- to make a difference, you need knowledge, but you only need a little information to have an opinion.imbecile
- https://media.tenor.…pango
- NBQ001
I wanna know everything
I wanna be everywhere
I wanna fuck everybody in the world
I wanna do something that matters!- Don’t you tell me how I feel! Don’t you tell me how I feel! You don’t know just how I feel!monospaced
- https://shuttershade…pango
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- Sheryl hat such a pretty mouth, lips & teeth when she was young.NBQ00
- scarabin6
You can tell the temperature by the length of a sleeping cat.
- PonyBoy3
We've had some recent flooding around my town the last 2 weeks. I was just out walking the pup through the woods where a lot of ground had been washed away and stumbled upon a wallet literally sticking out of the ground (the old checkbook length wallets that nobody uses anymore cuz nobody uses checks).
There's a Driver License, Social Security Card... permit to carry a firearm... there's even an old West Coast Video card. Everything expired in '94.
No cash tho. :(
- robotinc1
I made a west coast pilsner which has been dangerously delicous. Debating between another or a proper helles next.
- sted0
Since Wikipedia exists I haven't seen any error pages on it. It's down right now showing an "503 Service Unavailable" error, so weird.
- ********-5
I have returned from the void.
I have read you lunatics on and off for ten years, when i need depressing , edgy, self absorbed hater thoughts, i come here to read and pity you.
I will no longer player hate from the sidelines.
I have returned to insult you and announce my opinions that no one cares about:
Starting with Twitter.
What Musk is doing here is basically tanking a popular brand and turning it into a luxury brand. A sad thing to see but it's the only profitable way out of the situation.
It's a passion project for Musk, the aristocrat.
People like him better when hes using government funding to make innovative solutions.
With Twitter/x hes just playing with an established brand.
And nuking it.
-SHULA
- ahhh great. another musk cock sucker.pango
- Thats offensive. I like vagina********
- Musk is universally hated now. Odd to see you think Musk is still beloved. Catch up********
- JazXutopian
- Not JazX... I was 305artist and ethered.
Now i am COACH SHULA******** - Thanks, drgs!palimpsest
- Who?i_monk
- Return?pango
- Mission accomplished?
-SHULA******** - Now they are blaming drgs lol.
What a bunch of idiots lol
-SHULA********
- ********-6
Another guy everyone hates but now i like his work is Kanye West.
When you compare this demons discography to the rest it just doesn't compare:
My Top 5 rap artists all time:
Kanye
Dre
2pac
JayZ
RunDMCThe end.
Rap sucks.
-SHULA
- okaypango
- +1 for Ye
But no comparisons pleasegrafician - When you compare it doesn't compare.
I'm not crazy, you're crazy.palimpsest - i like Kanyemilfhunter
- Kanye is mentally ill. And it seems it's not just an act, when he actually destroys his career because of it. I think liking his art is okay.jagara
- (separating art from the artist, I mean)jagara
- @jagara, when you compare kanye to his rap contemporaries he's way more sane than those cowboys. Rap lyrics are cringe********
- I'm surprised apple even bought beats after listening to chronic 2001, cringeeeee********
- ********-6
My final annoying content for the day:
I'm using twitter and today is the brand refresh day.
I hate the rebrand already. It looks like a shitty russian pornography brand.
This is the best that lady from nbc could do working with Musk?
Cmon. This is generic as shit.
Oh well.
-SHULA
- Maybe it isn't final? As you know, Musk is pretty erratic and premature sometimes.jagara
- Yea. Maybe********
- Twitter is generic as shit. It's deserved and fitting.monospaced
- @mono haha, yeah so true. It always looked like a 99designs runner-up XDjagara
- Yea. I guess everything is generic really but the bird logo was decent
-SHULA******** - Musk should just go fully post-modern with it. Make it not make sense lol
-SHULA******** - Dou you have to sign every post and comment? Looks slightly douchy my dude...
- JAGARAjagara - I wasn't talking about the logo. The entire existence of Twitter is generic as shit for basic bitches, and deserves an equally shit and basic "logo."monospaced
- Watching it fall apart and all these people whining like little bitches just makes me smile in hope of a better future.monospaced
- jagara2
It is pure joy, when you can methodically dismantle someone's bullshit claims and accusations with a gentle but firm chokehold of calm, pleasant professionalism, leaving them rightfully humiliated.
Justice. Mic drop.
- Ramanisky211
A story for bainbridge and his ‘trouble sleep?’ thread.
Now I’m not saying you have what I had but def go and get checked out by your primary care doctor.About a year ago I was in a really bad place in life, emotionally, financially & personal family issues. I was living in Tampa Florida and mostly playing poker for a living. Yes I know, STRESSFUL as fuck. Things were just not going the way I had hoped and at the tender age of 50, around August 2022, I noticed my sleeping pattern began to worsen. I was waking up at 6:00am then a few weeks later 4:00am and just couldn’t go back to sleep. Around this time in September also began having shortness of breath, so bad that in October I couldn’t even go to grocery store, hell I could barely take 12 steps from the couch to the kitchen or bathroom without stopping to lean on something to catch my breath. At this point my sleeping completely switched off. October, November and the first 2 weeks of December I went on no sleep. I couldn’t lay down flat for more than a few seconds before I began to cough. Not only that but then I noticed my feet began to swell. Body was retaining water and the swelling which began at my feet was now all the way up my stomach and hips. I was in really bad shape physically & mentally, I knew I needed to go to a doctor but kept putting it off. Depression hit me hard and I had no health insurance at the time. So finally after almost 3 months of torturing myself I went into a Walk-in Clinic, they took one look at my legs and said “Hospital!!” ... So off I went on Dec 13th.
Turns out I had Edema, my body (heart & kidney) weren’t circulating blood fast enough and I wasn’t going to the bathroom enough throughout the day.
Not only that but they told me that my right lung was filled up with 60% liquid and that was the reason I would cough every-time I tried to lay down flat. They immediately put me on Lasix (diuretic water pills) meds. Within a few days I could see the swelling go down.Things seemed to get better with my body and I was still longing for a good sleep but if you guys have ever stayed over night in a hospital you know how hard it is to get a good nights rest. I did get a few little daily naps in. Unfortunately on Dec 24th I ended up getting a hematoma in my left leg (injury that causes blood to collect and pool under the skin.) Doctors said it was from my daily doses of blood thinners that caused it. This was hands down one of the MOST PAINFUL things I had ever experienced . On a scale of 1 to 10 it was 100.
2 days of such severe throbbing pain, they gave me hydrocodone pills and then the sweet warmth of several morphine injections. Needless to say, the hematoma extended my hospital stay. I went in on Dec 13th (at 230lbs) and released on Dec 31st (174lbs).
My first night home, I was so drained that I went to bed on New Year’s Eve at 11:00pm and slept until 10:00am. Let me tell you QBN people, it was
THE BEST night of sleep in my life.Anyways long story short, doing much better now. I’m working out, eat healthy and only intake 2,400ml (81oz) of liquid per day. I do have to take 4 daily meds which sucks but I gotta do it. I’m now back home in Georgia surrounded by family and friends.
For those wondering, charity paid my entire $150,000 hospital bill. I cannot put into words how appreciative I am. Everyday in the hospital I could see the
$$$ amount stacking up on me and that was super stressful as well.This entire episode felt like a bad surreal dream.
- Never underestimate daily exercise, particularly sprinting along with resistance/gymnastic... combined with zero processed food.shapesalad
- why not post in ‘trouble sleep?’ ?pango
- ^ hmm good question, not sure ...
guess it was more of a personal/blog story. But you’re probably right.Ramanisky2 - It’s really the first time I’ve told this to anyone other than family and close friends.Ramanisky2
- Welcome back to health. It's wild how we try to heal on our own. Basic health care is a good deal in our sick society********
- Enjoyed your contributions to the hip hop thread. I haven't been listening in ten tears and i suddenly had this retrospective thing this weekend********
- Holy shit Rams, glad you're on the up and up.garbage
- ^ thanks buddy, my only issue now is my left leg is still fucked up. They told it could up to a year for the numbness in my leg to go away.Ramanisky2
- Fucking hell, that is terrifying on many levels. And 150k! No wonder you put off seeing doctors for so long! Glad you out the other side with positive outlookdee-dubs
- Appreciate that dee-dubsRamanisky2
- grafician-3
Will be pushing 40°C today here, is it hot at your place?
Just checking
- ********-9
Currently being bombarded by Taylor Swift spam. Somehow the algorithm must have caught on to my kanye west praise.
I don't mind Taylor at all. Smoking hot babe. I've yet to hear anything from her. Her songs are not my cup of tea. Not a pop folk guy at all
-SHULA
- ????pango
- Instagram programming.
They are making me want to fuck taylor swift. It's working
-SHULA********
- ********-8
Now ive got a woody allen anti Nazi thing on my feed. Algorithm is definitely on my ass. Sheesh. Thanks kanye
-SHULA
- Why do you put your name behind your sentence like you write some kind of Gandhi quotes?
- MILFmilfhunter - It's a discipline. If i didn't sign my post i have failed the discipline and will punish myself for it.
-SHULA********
- Why do you put your name behind your sentence like you write some kind of Gandhi quotes?
- BusterBoy5
Witnessed one of the most horrendous scenes I've ever come across this morning. Young man apparently went into my local supermarket to hand in his resume...afterwards he ran across a pretty busy main road and ended up under a massive truck. I was walking past about 15 minutes after it happened...body was covered but a shop window had been absolutely covered in human remains...almost vomited when it became apparent.
- Ooft, poor kid.Nairn
- Death can happen quick********
- enjoy every moment because death is unexpectedmilfhunter
- Did he get the job?sausages
- Rip :(OBBTKN
- Any excuse not to worki_monk
- Lawyer should sue the property for funeral fees. It could raise their insurance rate by a few percentage points
-SHULA******** - Certainly a dick move but it could possibly be a non contest
-SHULA******** - Did he get the job?shapesalad
- Sorry you had to witness that. Damn.Ramanisky2
- Death comes unexpectedly, unless you're running across a busy main road.********
- jeez that's terrible. poor kid._niko
- If the kid was jaywalking there's no case whatsoever.garbage
- @buster Take some time to process it, because I witnessed something simliar, and it still haunts me. Some drunk dude walked out of a swanky restaurant..garbage
- ..and into the street. They had most of his body in the ambulance, but there were fragments of a human that still needed picking up.garbage
- I felt it right in my guts as well, hope you're doing alright.garbage
- Been there. I was walking my dog one morning and walked up on a hit and run. A man got mad his car was tapped by another door in the parking lotshellie
- So he ran over that man and dragged him down the road as he sped off. It was unreal.shellie
- Jesus Christ, people are awful.garbage
- Sorry you had to see that that's very sad.BuddhaHat