Letter to a Young Designer
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- plash0
- http://www.qbn.com/t…plash
- is that with an (EYE) or an (EL) ?7point34
- haha, I'd forgotten about that.Nairn
- yeah i am a jackass!********
- ukit0
I thought Tripleflux was Llyod's portfolio
- 7point340
what was this thread about again?
oh right,
tripleflux. good studio.
- version30
1. get incorporated now
2. find someone to do your taxes
3. expense everything artistic to the creativity needed of your business
4. diversify your visual portfolio
5. prepare multiple copies seasonal or bi-seasonal media packets representing yourself, ie personal work, client work, experimentation
6. advertise yourself
7. keep creating new things through a range of mediums
8. regularly upgrade your equipment
9. fix your diet
10. be physically active- this is a useful answerversion3
- version 3 missed out 11.
stop being a cock.********
- DCDesigns0
Develop and attitude as fast as possible so people will think you are "difficult", hence they will think you a brilliant designer. Wear weird clothes, or cool clothes, black preferably, have some facial hair and a messed up hair do and you'll be good.
Oh yeah, do good work.- very true. i like to grow my beard out to a taliban level so everyone is not only scared of me but also think im difficult to work with. i think wearing islamic clothing is in the cool clothes as well. or very "european"bizness
- ********0
Find someone to ride off of
- kelpie0
I get laid all the time for being a designer too. Its fucking great, the sex is dripping off me. I even fucked a policewoman once. That was great and totally the kind of thing I'd expect to get up to. Its pretty much a fact.
- you ooze primal sexuality********
- that's pretty much definitely a factkelpie
- you ooze primal sexuality
- kelpie0
wearing black actually makes you a better designer too, it focuses your mind on simplifying the message and streamlining form, cutting out unnecessary decoration
- bizness0
hey i live in los angeles. where people used to come to be actors now they come here to be artist, designer, art directors, creatives. its awesome. if you like working in the advertising world, word of advice, the first 15 years will be your sucking dick, the last will be you getting serviced by people for the last 15 yrs of your career. but i concur with what kelpie said too. you can get laid for being a designer. its great nothing feels better than dripping sweat, oh wait yes there is, dripping money.
- True... there are no 'struggling actors' in LA anymore, only struggling designers...NotByHand
- well what happens is the struggling actor becomes a designer through trial and error so there one in the same
but yea no more struggling actors anymore all us designers scrambling to get some sort of job to pay for living and dying in LAbizness - got ya...NotByHand
- ********0
Sometimes. i like to eat my buggers. especially the stringy ones.
- ********0
I live in LA, too. I have long grey hair, a coke nail, and I wear leather pants and a denim shirt with an embroidered skull on it
- ********0
coke nail .. hehe ..
- kelpie0
can I just point out I've never actually got laid due to being a designer in my life, and I would really worry about any girl who would pick her sexual partners on that basis, and probably phone her dad out of concern
- gentleman0
if all else fails
batesole
- ********0
asking qbn for advice on design and the design field is like asking phil spector advice on hair styles
- attentionspan0
DO DRUGS
- ********0
Just make shit up as you go along. If some of it sticks, then you're good.