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I was wondering how all you creatives got into your profession... Why are you doing this?
I am a graphic designer and got into it, because my hobby went my job! I always have pleasure in my work...
- skt0
I slipped and fell
- welded0
I have no job - I'm a student.
I live off my mother and loans from banks and the government.:(
- spongebob0
I wanted to do games. incidentally my course had design mainly and game as a sub-cat. games didn't quite take off here, so i am in design to keep my stomach full.
still love games.
- reaction0
Please write also clearly your function (designer, animator etc.) please with your brief description, so we know.. :)
Thank you.
- snowcat0
i fell out of a tree during my first video production course, broke my back, and cos i was stuck inside all summer learned video editing.
after that came the live VJ bit and from there i chipped into graphic design & then photography. has all become both profession & passion since then....
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- moth0
lol@snowcat ... That's funny shit..
I couldn't get a job as a Graphic Designer so I took a typesetting job for Annual Reports to get by.
I had a tiny amount of web know-how and the boss gave me small website to produce (it was shite). Anyway, 4 years later and the company has a entire web department thanks to me. Learnt a lot over the last 4 years, and still learning.
- skt0
I worked on a helpdesk for a bank and in between games of patience I started to work out (through total boredom) how their intranet was put togethor........
1 shit course and about 100 emails later i'm a web designer.
Woooo!
- Dancer0
I wanted to be an artist , found out there was no real money in it (unless your fookin good) - plus I was shit, and decided that I wanted to be creative and still get paid. Made the decision when I was young and never looked back.
- gruntt0
I was raised by 2 graphic designers (mother and stepfather)... the rest is history.
- tara|gee0
its teh only thing i could do! and now i want out!
- DutchBoy0
i am not ashamed to admit it's because of computers. esp. Macs. My haddrawing skills are ok when i try really hard but i have some mild form of motorical malfunction (is this good engrish?) which i can't help. Computers really helped me translate my well-developed visual sense into something visible.
I grew up in the photography and film-biz of my father and in the early 90's he bought his first mac and i was the one to figure it all out for him. I made my very first piece in PS 2.0.3 or something, from that moment on i got hooked on creating graphics with the aid of a computer. I have been a photographer for a long time but then i got fed up of living the not-so-very-creative life as a press-photographer and gradually moved into graphic and new media design.
- iDp0
When I was 20 I purchased a house in Las Vegas, realized I was now very broke so I called Dell and financed a new computer. I bought the computer so that I would have something else to do besides going out and spending $$ on booze and bitches. Then I met a guy online who became a really good friend of mine and he started teaching me how to design. It all went from there.
- dablammit0
I had to get out of the dope game.
Nah, jus kidding. I love art and (I think) I have some great out of the box drawing/painting skills, but realized when I got into high school that art is not very profitable but for a select few. Sooooo I decided it was either graphic design or basketball...right now I am working as a graphic/web designer and a marketing consultant.
I love design because I love conceptualizing.
- moth0
wish i'd stuck to my guns and become a farmer.
- DutchBoy0
"I love design because I love conceptualizing."
very good argument.
- iDp0
I love design for all the girlies that gravitate! don't tell teh evil girlfriend that, she thinks I do it for the cash.
- gruntt0
the dress code beats most other jobs.
- supes0
had to find something to use my degree in Studio Art for!
- tara|gee0
heh i love to concept too too bad it gets shot down and clients are all liek ahh lets just do something lame like our competition is doing :P COWARDS
- mrdobolina0
natural progression:
bicycle painter
screenprinter/graphic designer
internet help desk
web designer