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- Mishga
When you first thought:
"i am gonna be a designer"?
and Why?* waiting for people to sit back on couch...taking notes..
Ps: i insist..tell me your story, i am bored to death..
- Randd0
when I was broke, had a small child, was bartending part time and has spent a solid year revising one paragraph
- jamble0
My mate was (still is) a designer a few years and I thought it looked good fun sitting there making pretty things all day and listening to music and stuff. I was working in a call center at the time so it wasn't difficult to imagine a better job.
He gave me some good pointers and things to learn then I eventually did a masters now I work from home earning more than I would if I'd have climbed the customer services career ladder.
- 7340
started working for a web design company my friend in college started (i wanted to be a 3d animator, work in the movies) but i started doing design and started liking it
... sometimes i wish i had stayed with animation
- Anthony_Turner0
I Knew I wanted to be a designer before I suckled my first breast
- i think cock was the word you were looking for734
- Bad 734! Very bad!!
* chuckles..
Mishga - HAHAHAHAHAStudiospooky
- 5timuli0
A friend and I started an 8-bit gaming fanzine back in the mid 80s while we were still in primary school, mainly because we could get free games from the publishers (and did too). I used to draw mastheads for it with fineliners on stolen RAF paper.
I discovered booze in high school and kind of forgot about design, started a software engineering degree while working at GEC Marconi. After one year I hated it and one day I was sitting drawing office chairs hooked up to the electric sockets - that struck me as just a bit weird so I wrote my letter of notice, upped, left and never went back. Went into the art college the next week and convinced them to let me on the course eight weeks late. They did. Et voila.
- doesnotexist0
was always drawing and making small books and in college I started making lamps and getting into fine art. Came into the real world and realized I've been designing all my life anyways, why not continue it? Tried to hold a cubicle job, ended up walking out for lunch and not coming back.
- Bluejam0
at school, aged 15-16, was good at drawing, at first wanted to draw comics for a living but decided being a graphic designer would probably pay more.
- kelpie0
tried not too, tried really hard, didn't want to do anything design related as my mother is a textiles designer turned teacher and my dad a cabinet maker/furniture designer gone the same way. tried tried tried and tried some more not to go down that route, through sound and TV production, to english literature and eventually got the fear while doing crap jobs, picked up a prospectus that day and signed up for a graphic design course.
8 years on I'm still doing it, and starting to think about moving off it, even though I'm really just cracking it career wise now.
- Studiospooky0
I was born into a house filled with letterpress. My dad was a printer who ran a press in the garage. Grew up with letraset books and draws and draws of rub-down lettering. Was rendering fonts before I was drawing Spiderman. Started work at 15 in Birmingham in 1985. Pre computer environment. Did paste up, operated the PMT machine, sent copy out to phototypesetetrs, proerly marked up. Was trained to hand render times roman at 5pt. Fucking waste of time that was.
- but you did have some fun?..right?!?=)Mishga
- Oh yeah, I used to be allowed to lick the ink plate clean every evening.Studiospooky
- never a waste of time, how good are your hand styles now?Stugoo
- Still really good if I'm relaxed, but I developed an essential tremor in my 20's so if that kicks in it looks like shit.Studiospooky
- *jealous_salisae_
- flavorful0
In regards to the question, it still hasn't happened to me in more ways than one.
- don't worry, your voice will drop any day now, jerome... ;)madirish
- hahahaha!734
- But she's a girl.Studiospooky
- the balls will drop soon after your voice.spendogg
- pascii0
when i was finished my education as a type setter
- Stugoo0
I was always really good at maths but had a talent with illustration when i was younger, went to uni studying mathematics to appease my parents, and i enjoyed the problem solving. The commute and theory became too much and I went off the rails and started experimenting with not 'nice' things one of which included graffiti.
I dropped out of uni a year and a half in and was as good as unemployed for about 8 months all i was doing was painting.
One day my girlfriend at the time kicked me out of bed and into a college open day. 2 days later I was in a portfolio class.
Have never looked back.- started hanging with the 'wrong crowd.' all those shady tea afficianados... ive seen it 1000 times...734
- You've seen Stugoo hanging round with tea-bellies 1000 times?Studiospooky
- um... well... actually ive never 'seen' stugoo734
- alla0
my dad was a printer too! He made me work during weekends... I was retouching films and all kinds of other crap like folding, binding and so on... I hated it so much.
I wanted to complete a masters degree teach in fine Arts but changed my mind and went studying 3D animation. Time made me drift towards web design... but I still want to become and indie rock star :O)
- 7340
my dad was a draftsman...
sorry im not cool enough to be part of this thread... i'll take my non-typesetting genenics and start my own thread [hangs head in shame]
- HAHA.
Yeah, go on with you, lowly scribe's son.Studiospooky - Be a Proud Draftsman son!Mishga
- HAHA.
- barbtastic0
age 4-5: multiple variations of wonder woman/rainbows/unicorns
age 9-12: lots of lettering and sketches making fun of everything, spoof ads [like mad magazine], and drawing 80s outfits i wished i could buy. my mom used to hang wallpaper and i was that kid that always told her when she"missed a spot" or if something didn't "match"
goofy angsty teen: parents moved me from LA to Midwestern WASP Pleasantville, escaped to art school far enough away so they couldn't "drop by". they agreed to pay as long as i had "marketable" skills upon graduating, so i moved from printmaking and photography to graphic design
i remember resisting at first, but then getting super-excited when i realized the computer geek stuff related to the stuff i was already doing by hand
- spendogg0
I couldn't get into drama class in high school, so took art instead - I couldn't draw for shit and my teachers had no problems telling me so. I would pay the really good artists (with weed) to help me flush out my ideas. ended up talking the year book editor into letting me do a redesign and never looked back.
Went to art school and got the most i could out of it, learned to draw better and got some computer skills. Did paste up and typesetting right out of school and did club flyers so i could get into clubs for free.
and here i am a bit underpaid and over worked.
Life is grand
- duckofrubber0
I've spent all my life either making art by hand (painting, drawing, sculpture) or being in front of a computer (I was hacking into BBS' at the tender age of 11)
I went to college and placed out of most of my required credits, so I had plenty of time to take any classes I wanted. I ran the gamut of the liberal arts, all the while taking various painting, figure drawing, printmaking, scuplture classes in the art school. I settled on anthropology for a major, since the human condition is a drastic interest of mine.
Around the same time I started throwing rave parties, and I was drawn to the funky, colorful style of the better flyer designers. I then realized that I could combine the two things I have always done, computers and art, and promptly switched into the school of art and the design program.
I still study all sorts of fields of thought, and this definitely feeds into my design work. I'm especially getting into quantum theory and political science right now...
- trooper0
age 9 (ish) and at the time my response was 'because everything needs designing' pretty deep for a 9 yr old ;)
before that i wanted to be father christmas lol
- And are you Father Christmas? Becuase I got a remote control helicopter for Xmas and frankly, its shit.Studiospooky
- haha, was it the one sold in malls for a fiver, cause if it was – yes, utter gashDancer
- I guess so. The missus got it for me. Nearly lost an eye on the innaugural mission. Hasen't left terra firma since.Studiospooky
- Dancer0
I wanted to be an artist but realised you got paid shit so thought I would be a commercial one..
Plus it sounded cool..