Why are you a graphic designer?
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- doktornomore0
I only do design work on a freelance/occasional basis, far from the depth and skill typically shown here - drawing/designing for me was an escape into another world when the real world sucked - still is and probably always will be...
- You make a living doing something else?randomname
- yep - there are multiple opportunities to make money and I hit them all...doktornomore
- d_rek0
I would argue that I ended up where I am because of a simple desire to not waste natural talent.
Long story short, I started drawing at a young age, kept at it and eventually turned something most people scoffed at into a career where I get payed pretty decent to do.
- even when you cannot spell... =)doktornomore
- Master of the nuances of the english language I am notd_rek
- +1rusty_ace
- ETM0
My uncle keeps going around telling everyone he "has a nephew who can do that", and these people keep calling me. Really annoying, as it is interfering with my astronaut training.
- 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
- 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
- boobs0
Flunked out of medical school.
- Al_dizzle0
I followed the path of least resistance.
- fate0
Just bad luck.
- 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
- 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.
- RustyStew0
Great, now I'm thinking about it again...I just got over myself too.
- newuser0
Isn't most of this board graphic design / web design?
- Douglas0
the question i ask myself is... "why am i STILL a graphic designer?"
- beautiful0
because path of least resistance
- cannonball19780
This thread title assumes so much.
- 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.
- JG_LB0
because i suck at photography