Early Job?
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- a-train
When was the first time you got a serious gig? How old were you?
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Im so siked to be making a logo for the general surgery department at Kaiser Permanente in Denver.IM ONLY 17! AHHH!
I will post a example as soon as I can!
- clone0
18 for the first paying gig i designed for friends fam and bands before that though.
just be professional and fair, do good work and theyll hire you to do more stuff
- iDp0
First job, I was working as a waiter and helping a friend promote a shitty nightclub. He got a really crappy looking flyer made and I had been f ing around with PS...so I re designed it. He dug it and I got my very first client.
- usrper0
fucking A
train
- a-train0
nice iDip, thats kinda how I started out.
I wanted to extend my cartooning skills to a computer and it just took off from there
- Peter0
Over a decennia ago, at 14. Did illustrations for a paint shop. Wish I still had a copy of that work.
- bgheen0
I was 13. First website for the detroit branch of Century 21.
It was also my first website, learned as I did. Quickly learned the trouble with "suuure I can do that!"
- a-train0
lol, yea same here. my dad wanted me to design him a site so i went out and got Frontpage 98 and told him i knew the program like the back of my hand ;)
- clone0
dont brag about frontpage it's waste
- dippy0
ahaha, i was gonna say, a-train, that it's dangerous to mention Frontpage here. Hahaha...
- a-train0
ha, well. we all have our roots ;)
- iDp0
*raises hand*
I use MS Paint..whatcha gunna say now bitches?? One of the most powerful graphics programs in all the land.
see:
- bgheen0
I can't even remember what it was called...but I used the editor that came with Netscape.
Composer?
Get this...I didn't even know HTML existed until AFTER I had finished that site.
Jesus..looking back it's a miracle I did anything considering how much Duke Nukem 3d I was playing!
- a-train0
lol, MS paint.... jesus
- dippy0
not hatin on roots, a-train. I got em too. I rocked MS Paint back in the day, and I did the graphics for my first site in Paint Shop Pro. It was a Geocities site.