parents of designers
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- Nairn0
My folks are just content knowing I'm not pimping my ass for crack.
- Nairn0
Any more.
- canuck0
My mum doesnt get it. Then again she has never even used the internet. But the old man seems to know what I do.
agh well.
- DaveO0
My mum and dad always talk about art as though its my thing – say they go to germany and see some art – whatever it is – they always say "Oh Dave, you'd have LOVED it..." when really it sounds shitter than anything I'd have seen before.
But you know what, they try their best to get it and when I go home my mum always asks for bits of print that she can keep. In fact there are a load of my flyers on their kitchen wall that they've kept.
They paid for my degree and supported me in my first few london years – I owe them fucking everything.
God bless you mum & dad!!!
- canuck0
*tear
- ********0
my mum informed me last night that she's on MySpace
lol
- valentim0
My god, this is interesting, I though I was the only one that couldn´t explain, to parents what was my job about!
I see thats not true...
My father understands design, thats not a problem...but my mum evrey time she has to answeer anyone: What does your son do?....she cant find an answeer...: She is like, he works with computers... she says...its difficult to explain! All she know is, and thats complicated to explain too....she asks me:- How come you wear those cloths to work?...the concept of wearing baggy jeans and colourful tees in the "office" doesn´t seem to fit my mums head either...anyway...great thread...
- JerseyRaindog0
Huh, I have clients who don't understand what I do.
- exador10
both my parents were pretty skilled artists..in the sense that they could both draw very well..
i suppose thats where it started..
them teaching me how to draw, and me getting into it...i remember showing them my portfolio around college grad year, and they were blown away...they couldn't believe it...i really impressed them..
a few years later, after having worked in the field for some time, i showed them again...
they both just scratched thier heads..they didn't get what they were looking at...logos, magazine layouts, ads...etc...
it was sort of cool tho, in the sense that my dad just said...son..the work you do now is just so far away from what i understand...i can appreciate it, and i can see that its good..but i don't have any frame of reference to judge it or really understand it...but i'm very very proud of you...
love those folks of mine..
:)
ex
- skelly0
"so did you write this book?"
"no"
"did you take the photos?"
"no"
"so what did you do?"Baskerville
(Aug 3 06, 01:29)so true!
- barbtastic0
my relatives in LA are STILL sending me job openings at Disney and American Greetings. WTF?!
[although it could be cool to start my own trend in greeting cards]
- Amp0
My Mom will probably be sending me job ads for the rest of my life. She doesn't even read them; theres one she sent me that had the word "Photoshop" in it but it was for a Geologist.
"oh this is right up your alley, they use computers!"
- jakeyj0
my parents pretty much get it. web design is a little easier to grasp than graphic design i think. they are just happy that I enjoy my job.
my grandma was a painter so they appreciate art.
- mstrobert0
after 6 years have somewhat of an idea about what I do.
They still don't know what the hell "New Media Design" is or why I would want to drop "Mechanical Engineering" and do "art" since I am good at "math" and "science"
My Dad is a mechanic though and probably more creative in the art of fixing things and building things from seemingly junk than I will ever be as a designer.
- koolbavaria0
fuck ...
- mstrobert0
even worse than knowing about what I do is trying to go to an art museum with them ...
Dad and brother, "hey mike, you made paintings like this when you were 4 and couldnt read and still peed your pants - this is shit!"
It does give you a realist perspective on what is art and what is "important" ... but none the less, knowing the history is frusteratingly impossible to explain ...
- rafalski0
I think mine know what I'm doing and are happy that playing with fun stuff for years and being deaf to gramma's "get a degree" rant brings decent salary now.
I recently realized that 10 years old me would be excited if heard I'd be doing web design. I remember "War Games", where Matthew Broderick was "connecting to a database" through a phone modem. How cool was that? I asked my father what a "database" was, he sort of explained me even I'm sure he had no real clue.
Then the 12 years old me, who learnt programming in Basic from a bi-weelky tech magazine without even seeing a computer.. he would shit in his pants if he saw what I make my living on now.
Not that I'd shit myself as a kid.
- jerk0
i was at a family dinner during my days in college and one of my aunts asked me what i was studying. i told her graphic design. a couple of quiet moments passed and then she asked me, "so what do you do with the graphs you design?" my parents are a little better but not by much.
- gramme0
my parents have always taken an interest in what I do, ever since I can remember. Otherwise, I prolly wouldn't have become a designer. They have a very good handle on what I do & why I do it; if all clients had my parents' attitude then nobody would complain about ignorant clients, ever. I've actually turned my old man into a bit of a typographical snob without meaning to :)
- Fanco0
if i ever spend more than 5 minutes trying to explain to someone what i do and they still don't understand. i just tell them I'm a sell-out artists and its too complicated for them.
i showed some photographic projects i did for school to my dad : his reply. "this is ugly. you can't see anything. its all blurry."
... thanks dad.
i learned to avoid anything artistic around my parents. my dad now thinks I just work in the computers industry. he still thinks the technology bust never happened years ago.