parents of designers
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- PonyBoy
do any of you (designers) have parents that are absolutely clueless as to what you do?... even though you've been doing it for 10+ years and you're so damn proud of some of the stuff you've done that you've showed it to them like a kid wanting it hung on the fridge...
... but then they go and email you a job application for a Kinko's-like place... and say in the email 'this could be a real opportunity'...
... i'm speachless, Pops... speachless at how little you know me...
... *sniff...
... daddy... *sniff
- fate_0
My parents are incredibly supportive of me. I think it helps that a cousin of mine graduated with a 4 year GD degree, and they realize my works kicks her works ass.
- PonyBoy0
i'm not saying they're not supportive of me... I'm just saying they don't pay attention. My dad's the first guy to brag about how his son's an 'artist' etc...
... it's just annoyingly... 'cute'... that they're cluess as to what I really do right now. :)
- fate_0
Have you shown them your folio and stuffs?
- PonyBoy0
hahahaha... absoLUTELY... that's why I'm dumbfounded by some of the stuff my pop's sends me... either work-related or supposedly to 'inspire me'...
... i dunno... I just got a kick out of my old man tonight - I show him all the stuff I work on ALL THE TIME... his 'objectivity' on what's 'inspiring' or 'objectively good' is just...
... subjective? off?...
... i love the ol' prude though. :)
- mrdobolina0
you just need to show him all of the work u did for "girls gone wild"
- PonyBoy0
my dad already knows I have nice tits... it's hereditary, dude...
- MLP0
my mom is totally clueless to what i do. at my exit show i tried to explain it to her and she couldn't grasp it at all.
on the other hand, my dad is totally supportive and often feeds me work, contacts and articles. he's very interested in how design works with his line of buisness and its interesting to go back and forth about that.
- 3RR0R_4040
My dad just me a few days ago that i shud get a real estate agent's licence... hes a realtor too... he said that after im in the field i can hire people under me who r like me (ie. designers)... pisses me off so much!
- mrdobolina0
you just need to show him all of the work u did for "girls gone wild"
mrdobolina
(Aug 2 06, 19:52)my dad already knows I have nice tits... it's hereditary, dude...
PonyBoy
(Aug 2 06, 19:54)That is "guys gone wild" ya hooor
gnight yall.
- skelly0
my parent's are both really supportive, but yeah, like most people not trained in design, they just don't get it. friends are like that too.
they appreciate a website maybe, but show them a type exercise or a book design and they just get that look like "what am i supposed to be seeing here?"
- _me_0
my parents say i " work in television " - my gran thinks i'm an architect. bless her.
- neue75_bold0
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you see me?
Papa can you find me in the night?
- ********0
my old man is a graphic designer, working in packaging/advertising and television commercials from the 70s till present.
obviously an influence on why im a designer now. grew up watching him doing work at home and goin in and spending time at the studio during my school holidays (photocopying money, playing with the omnichrome machine, stealing Pantone and Permanent pens and hanging out with the photographer).
so yeah my folks more than know the kind of stuff i do and take a great interest in the work i knock out at gp. and me and my dad have 'design' talks all the time and show each other work-in-progress for each others feedback.
same through art college too, i'd take his opinions over that of the tutors as he'd been working in design for 30 years instead of teaching it for 30 years.
- phatlee0
PonyBoy, wish my parents used email.
- Baskerville0
I remember going to a lecture by vince frost once and he talked about what his parents thought of him being a designer.
He said he would show them a book he designed and they would respond:
"so did you write this book?"
"no"
"did you take the photos?"
"no"
"so what did you do?"and that's so true, people just don't really understand that pretty much every object on earth is designed by someone. It's just accepted that it exists.
Vince Frost's parents ended up saying "why don't you go back to doing drawings, we liked those"
Luckily my parents seem to understand design pretty well, although my dad's always telling me about so rubbish little print company that a friend of a friend works for – doesn't quite get how big the london scene is.
Stil people understand design a lot more than paleo-oceanography. My sister does that (she's a geologist) so I guess I'm lucky
- paraselene0
dad: i heard about this program called photoshop, maybe you would like it.
me: *despair
- Kiko0
PonyBoy
Man I understand.
My parents think that anything to do with a computer is my stuff.
My mum sees some IT thingy and tells me oh you should go for that!
- PonyBoy0
(photocopying money, playing with the omnichrome machine, stealing Pantone and Permanent pens and hanging out with the photographer).
HA! AWESOME.
- Jaline0
my parent's are both really supportive, but yeah, like most people not trained in design, they just don't get it. friends are like that too.
they appreciate a website maybe, but show them a type exercise or a book design and they just get that look like "what am i supposed to be seeing here?"
skelly
(Aug 2 06, 20:41)pretty much the same thing for me too.
My parents have been trying to understand design and stuff, but the problem is that they don't listen at all. So they'll ask me the same questions all the time, especially when telling someone else about me. First they'll start with what I'm studying in school, and then go on to talk about design. So I have to explain myself most of the time, since it's a field most of the people in my culture don't even talk about, let alone actually have careers in. Most of them only talk about being doctors and engineers ;)
- Dita_kz0
my parents have no clue at all!!!!
They think I'm a traffic warden!!!!
Its too complicated to explain what I do. Mind you my dad works in Dig Control - wtf is that!!!
tit for tat I supppose!