Graphic Design
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- typist0
emigre, this is where i get hooked with vector graphic and tDR
- jimv0
Paint Shop Pro
- Nairn0
- Dicking around with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga, I guess - making graphics for crappy little games or making up 8-bit fonts and images for disk intros and such or doing covers and content layouts for my schoolwork (as paltry justification to the folks for having forked out for the thing in the first place for 'educational purposes', yeah right). My favourite non-game programs on 8-bits like the Electron and Spectrum were always graphic-related (ooh, look an etch-a-sketch, or code to draw alternating-coloured radials lines, holy shit, these computers are powerful)
- The application of an image or text-led veneer to ..er.. something else in order to improve it somehow, either functionally or promotionally.
- mimeartist_limited0
Deluxe Paint 4 was cool... the sphinx was inspiring... as was 64 colours (half brite or something like that)
- I bought DP IV AGA, but could never really 'work' in HAM or AGA on my crappy little 14" Telefunken TV...Nairn
- ..though when I moved to PS (4/5?) later on, I thought it terribly limited - not appreciating how much furtherNairn
- it could take things! ('but.. but,., how do I just with draw single pixels? this thing's useless!')Nairn
- mimeartist_limited0
hehe... i won a xmas card compettion for the local radio station using paintbrush on a RM Nimbus... pixel by pixel :)
- Nairn0
I found the Sphinx quite off-putting - far too many colours and too much detail. I'm no artist, so could never pull that kind of thing off.
Now, reduce down to black white and red and get some text and purpose in there, and I could eke 'decent' (what I thought back then, anyway) graphically-impactful results out.
So, for me at least, tootling along as a graphic designer is essentially me being a failed, largely incompetent, artist.
- mimeartist_limited0
yeah, type, is basically drawn for you already :)
- gramme0
When I was a kid, I had an 18x24 map of Alaska that was illustrated in the Swiss style, with relief shading in blues and tans. I used to stare at it for what seemed like hours, admiring the symbols and indicia. I was enthralled by the idea of taking something as complex as land forms and distilling it into a parsible, clear, and useful medium.
I wasn't aware at the time, but what I was admiring was graphic design, more or less. Combine that with my childhood love of calligraphy and lettering, and the attraction to design, for me, was really a no-brainer.
- I share your early fascination with the hyper-ordered multi-threaded chaos that is a map..mikotondria3
- gramme0
That's too bad Nairn. I can draw and even paint to some degree, and I'm sure if I applied myself fully to either discipline I could make a career out of it. I have found, though, that I genuinely prefer working with type and image over working with paint and canvas. For me it's not a matter of what's easier. In fact, I have found as I go along in my career, that typography is a much more nuanced and difficult discipline to master than I once imagined.
And, as Doyald Young loves to point out, good design still begins with a pencil.
- kult0
When I was a kid I wanted to be a Marvel Comics artist. Then around 8 years old I discovered ClarisWorks on an old mac and started drawing robots, making robot schematics, drawing robots battling each other.
...Then I ditched Mac forever and found Windows in like 4th grade, played games like Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem, and wanted to make games instead. So I started programming & making art for mods and such.. then websites...
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~j…
^ My first "freelance gig" at 13 years old.. drawing some Nazi badguy skins :P Anyway, graphic design eventually won out. ;)
- Zomg, Duke Nukem was the shit.********
- I would love to see those original robot schematics and robot battle drawings from ClarisWorks.monospaced
- Zomg, Duke Nukem was the shit.
- Knuckleberry0
I wanted to design cd covers. Sadly I have not done that yet. Now I guess I can design... MP3 covers? Its like a tiny blanket for data.
- gramme0
^ heh, yeah I wanted to design CD covers as well. So far have only done one, and it was for my brother's band.
I also wanted to design annual reports (I know, call me crazy), but it seems hardly anyone does them anymore—and if they do an AR, it's online only more often than not.
- jaylarson0
NIN - Sin
- NIN always had great package design for their albums. Definitely inspiring.monospaced
- jaylarson0
Dave McKean on Sandman and otherstuff -
- Really loved this stuff when I was younger. Back before "grunge" was trendy.********
- isn't that more like illustration?monospaced
- Semantics, really.********
- it's a design solution.jaylarson
- Really loved this stuff when I was younger. Back before "grunge" was trendy.
- ukit0
It was 1969 and I had just dropped my first hit of acid at a Jimi Hendrix concert. Colors and shapes swirled around me, music took on visual form, and I envisioned a world where logic and reason ruled, where humans could unite in a single global consciouness of love, peace and understanding. And that's when I invented the Macintosh.
- malzone0
you asked for lol catz
- ********0
I got a bonus check of $2,000 for Christmas in high school from the cable company I worked at as a Production Assistant. I bought a shitty Compaq, and a phone line in my bedroom, and that was it.
I started playing with Flash, cause at that time, no one gave a shit about it. I never really got great at Flash, but if it weren't for playing around in it back then, I might never have gotten serious about graphic design.
THANK YOU ADELPHIA CABLE COMPANY FOR THAT BONUS CHECK!
- monospaced0
I was making my public mark on things from before I can remember: my name in the cement foundation of the house and drawn on the inside of drawers. When I was in 2nd grade our school put in a Mac SE/30 lab. In the 5th grade I won our class letterhead design competition and I was hooked. Skip ahead a decade or so (and a couple more Macs along the way)...
In college I applied for an on-campus design assistant position requiring knowledge of basic Mac graphics. I got the lead position and a rocky introduction to design. After graduation I realized I knew nothing about what I wanted to to, so I went to learn more. Now I'm here.
- Audria0
How did you discover graphic design?
truthfully because I didnt feel like paying 40K for a degree in painting, and I needed something more challenging then holding a paintbrush.
