Why are you a graphic designer?
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- randomname
Is it nature or nurture?
Any good graphic designer can trace their initial interest back to album covers or comics or movie posters and things like that.
But ever wonder why you're a visual person? And why a graphic designer rather than industrial or a architect?
Why didn't we become scientists or musicians?
- scarabin0
seeing this poster when i was 9 or 10
and this album later on
- scarabin0
derp.
this poster
- plash0
- not all of us are graphics designers but be the change is why.plash
- greatest quote of all time. nice plash.ohhhhhsnap
- thanks bro, i agree.plash
- monospaced0
My grandfather was an architect, my mother is an artist, and despite my father's efforts to make me a 4th generation doctor, I still ended up designing the class letterhead in 4th grade and going to design school, even after earning a social sciences degree. While I do feel my choice was partly nurture, I can't help but feel nature had a lot to do with it as well.
- Miguex0
I guess I sucked at math
- JG_LB0
because i suck at photography
- CanHasQBN0
I think it is nature. As a kid, I had a good understanding of shape & line quality and how colors work well (and not well) together. It must be something in the brain that makes someone a visual person, or a math, music, etc.
One odd thing I noticed... When I look at photos (family pictures, anything), I spend a great deal of time looking at each one, whereas the person next to me looking at the same pictures will just flip through each one in a matter of a couple seconds. It's as if I am trying to process every little thing in the photo or find some hidden object. I hold it in front of me for a minute or so. I dunno why I do that.
I went to school for architecture, but didn't like the math involved. I only wanted to design.
- cannonball19780
This thread title assumes so much.
- beautiful0
because path of least resistance
- Douglas0
the question i ask myself is... "why am i STILL a graphic designer?"
- newuser0
Isn't most of this board graphic design / web design?
- RustyStew0
Great, now I'm thinking about it again...I just got over myself too.
- mikotondria30
Spotting graffiti in our local town in teh mid 80s. Getting obsessed with the crazy letterforms and the politics of it. Riding around with sketchpad and jotting down little sections, then going home and learning it. That and technical drawing at school, all orthogonal projections and construction lines and 10 types of pencil from 12b through 12h, doing perfect lines and circles and angles, doing calculations by actually doing geometry and learning to think visually, and all. Also being unable to use a tape recorder to load games into my 16k Texas Instruments computer and instead programming to produce little 'movies' of like sprite little men, with a 4 stage walk cycle, coming onto the screen and doing shit, like in a western, or in space, with little bits of randomness and sequenced blippy music. Yir.
- rusty_ace0
well consider this....on my biological fathers side, My grandfather was a sculpting instructor at UCLA, my grandmother ran a design firm, my aunt and biological father were designers...but i had almost no contact with them after i was 8.
...I still ended up becoming a designer...while my younger sister (same parents) is a speech pathologist.personally the aspect of design i am drawn to, is the problem solving aspect...i always find finishing/polishing part of a project tedious and boring, while necessary, the purely visual part of the project is the part i have the least interest in.
why not anything else? i have to agree with beautiful...go with what your good at.
- +1 I like the problem-solving part the most toomonospaced
- fate0
Just bad luck.
- Al_dizzle0
I followed the path of least resistance.
- boobs0
Flunked out of medical school.
- tOki0
26 years old, first client at 16 and taught myself everything I know.
Had font books at age 8 and loved lettering, suddenly realised I was destined to be a designer in my junior years of highscool. I realised I wanted to be a person who could help others to communicate, but also be able to lay claim to things that people interact with every day, whilst often not realising the fact. Still love creating things of beauty (where possible, lol) :)
Working in a big agency is often a pain but pays the bills, my heart lies in product and platform development <3 lol
- monNom0
because scientists don't get the chicks like graphic designers, man!
- i want this scientist though
http://images.thecar…moldero
- i want this scientist though