Why are you a graphic designer?
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- 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.
- i_monk0
The philosophy factory wasn't hiring.
- 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.
- ESKEMA0
evolution from graffiti into typography and design and shit.
- 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.
- clearThoughts0
what other trendy/cool people would do for a living
- ArchitectofFate0
I like to fix things that are broken. And every day at work feels like the first day in kindergarden
- Al_dizzle0
I followed the path of least resistance.
- Jimbo820
- I've always had a compulsion for order, clarity and patterns.Jimbo82
- That OCD is a deciding factor in whether you are an artist or a designer, IMO.ETM
- I find all good designers have some degree of OCD, even if it's not always appearant.ETM
- I definitely do.CanHasQBN
- I definitely do.CanHasQBN
- I definitely do.CanHasQBN
- The purple and blue crayons are out of order.i_monk
- the child is 8 months old, FFS.CanHasQBN
- boobs0
Flunked out of medical school.