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- Concrete0
A bit cliché now but record sleeves and album art at first. Then Face magazine, then grafik magazine.
- Fariska0
Since i was a child i wanted to be a mason, 'cause masons build stuff, then i moved toward being an engineer then an architect, the ones who design stuff, then i was 18 and confused. Was the moment for uni, I decided to try 4 different admission tests (Design, Architecture, Aerospace engineering, IT sciences). Design was the first and i passed. And later on i realized that there's no big difference among the 4 things.
- Oh, that makes you the ultimate pseudo masonic Alpha male on QBN.********
- Oh, that makes you the ultimate pseudo masonic Alpha male on QBN.
- _salisae_0
i studied acupuncture and wanted to open a holistic spa but i had to start really small so i designed the menu of services myself. my friend had the software and was asking me what i wanted. as we were talking i became consumed and really rude, pushing him aside, saying i would do it. i showed the menu to my mom and she said 'looks like you missed your calling' and i thought 'i haven't missed anything. see you later.'
i was really over the whole hippy thing anyway.
- billl0
easy out
- StratusGD0
I wanted to draw comics. I still want to, and I still draw... but I realized it'd be a crappy career. I liked computers, so design seemed like a good compromise. I was in college when the Internet really took off, and I had an interest in programming, so I learned a little bit about the internet.
Then, in my first real job, I was the only designer with web experience, so I ended up learning to love it.
In the end, I guess it worked out. I only question my career choice about 3-4 times a week.
- killerqueen0
Designers are wankers.
- Oh dear.********
- oh yes.Point5
- Nose pressed against the glass, yearning masked by a cynical sneer. A one man salon de refusé.********
- Oh dear.
- detritus0
My folks divorced when I was quite young, my mum then marrying an architect. While I lived with them I was encouraged towards art, drama, writing etc, but also really enjoyed computers and graphics and the 'reasoning behind design' - always asking questions, always wondering why. When I moved in with my Dad, he encouraged me along more traditional lines, so despite showing an aptitude for design (top of my year for pre-Gcse technical drawing (my academic zenith), always drawing, etc) I decided to do formal non-artie courses (whilst at the time doing graphics for pirate games intros, 'designing' all my schoolwork in Deluxe Paint on the Amiga and making graphics for a couple of crappy DIY games), so I could get to university - where I did one of the first courses in the UK dabbling in nascent web design.
It was only when I left to work with at North East England's main newspaper company in the web design department, I think, where I realised I could actually make a career out of 'being a designer' (of sorts) doing what I enjoy - graphics via computers.
- Llyod0
it happened when I almost got a job with 3do as a 3d artist but there was a miscommunication with a head hunter. I realized that I sucked at it and interactive design was much easier.
- Mojo0
Hmm.
I've always loved computers. One of the first copmuters I had access to as a kid, was the Amiga 500+. This was when I was first introduced to a gaming and computing platform. You could play games, and also do word processing (I wrote little stories and things), and run paint programs like DeluxePaint.
I remember discovering that DeluxePaint could do animation, and had a lot of fun with it. Age 9-10ish?
Later on, I got my own PC. A 386-SX 25(mhz). Ran windows 3.1 (just). Having my own pc lead me to develop my technical skills, as I would constantly want to know how it works. Eventually upgrading hardware and stuff became second nature. I've never bought a brand new pc since, just upgrades.
At this time, around age 12, I discovered qbasic. Qbasic is a BASIC interpreter that was included with DOS/Win3.1. I had so much fun with that. I loved using 'SCREEN 13' and using 320x240x256colour mode. Awesome.
I came back from NZ to the UK, did a year in IT (so boring, I knew it all anyway), followed by a graphic design diploma (triple distinction), and .. started my own business.
Early computers set me up for my current job really. I'm creative, and have a technical mind. Web design is perfect for that.
- Holy crap! Are we twins?duckofrubber
- DIY Lemmings animations? :)detritus
- Corel Paint on Windows 3.1 almost lead to pre-pubescent suicide.Concrete
- Mojo0
I almost forgot: LEGO.
I consider LEGO to be greatest thing to happen to me as a child.
Kids don't play with that stuff enough.
Really.
- I'd still play with it now if I had any...Mojo
- +!detritus
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Though, personally, I was a bigger fan of Constructs.StratusGD - +++
Lego it was!!..i'll play alone for hours, making transformers...=)Mishga - Got my daughter a giant chest of lego for Xmas ;)********
- Somewhere at my parent's place there is the LEGO box, still waiting for meFariska
- squire2250
I knew I would be a artist/designer before it would be fashionable to be an artist/designer. I would say around 95-95 was when I figured I would go into computer animation. Then I changed my major to graphic design quick!!
- czawada0
I was born ready.
- tank020
i wanted to become a comic book drawer,
but off al a sudden i like type and layout more than
drawing superheroes,
thats about 7 years ago...
- Concrete0
YES MOJO! (^)
LEGO! The only toy I ever wanted to play with as a child. I would rarely build the toy on the box, instead add pieces from sets to make juggernauts and Police Tanks! I even bought the Western themed Lego just for the Riffles and Hand Guns.
I do think that present day Lego has been dumbed down. Fewer pieces, more modular, more - dare I say it - American!?
Might get some down from my mums loft this weekend!
- like you i used to mix my new pieces with the old ones and makes bigger robots...(too much Transformers Tv serie)Mishga
- ********0
when I was a lad in the great depression, playing in the filthy streets of the south bronx I saw a huge shiny limousine pull up and a well dressed man got out with a beautiful starlet on each arm. I asked my friend Nobby who that man was and he said, oh, that's my uncle frank--he works as a graphic designer.
- But it wasn't, was it, it was the Aphex Twin, and you put on your bikini and danced, didn't you. DIDN'T YOU.********
- that, too********
- ...story of my lifeComplexfruit
- But it wasn't, was it, it was the Aphex Twin, and you put on your bikini and danced, didn't you. DIDN'T YOU.
- Point50
like a lot of other people in this thread I loved to draw. I started drawing comic book character back in 1983 (3rd grade for me) and continued drawing all the way thru high school. I went on to play football at a jr. college where I finished up all my pre-req and core classes; I moved onto a four year college to begin studying my major, at which point I was undecided. I figured I'd give landscape architecture a try, but the waiting list was like a year long, so I wandered through the arts building and saw the computer lab in the design wing and thought "that's what I want to do, art on a computer!"... and so it was. I graduated with BFA with an emphasis in design (wish I would have stayed to get my illustration degree) moved back to Vegas in 1998 and got a job as a jr. designer at $19k/yr. Did print work for a year, then moved on and learned interactive design at another agency. Got sick of the whole shitty design scene out here, so I moved onto the glamorous job of being Roman and Egyptian characters at Caesars Palace and a genie character at the Aladdin. Then I moved into bouncer status, porter, bar back and then bartender. Once I had a kid though, it all changed and 3 hours of sleep a day wasn't cutting it anymore so I got back into this shitty design scene out here and now I feel like I'm going thru the motions at work (an ad agency), but am very happy with most of my freelance gigs.
- robotron3k0
I realized I could design when I took an intro to design class in college and our first assignment was drawing boxes and circles. I thought this is hella easy and I dropped out of class now I'm a Creative Director in New York. And you know what, the shite is still easy... pfft.
- Knuckleberry0
drawings pics in paint.exe on a pc. Friend cam up and set that looks good you should be a graphic designer. Now I am here. That was a long time ago.