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- ohhhhhsnap
when you knew you wanted to be a "Designer?"
Also, at what age was design first "introduced" to you as a profession?
- detritus0
I never did. I fell into this by accident and have hated myself ever since.
- pango0
didn't event know I wanted to be a designer. I went to art school simply because I suck at everything else and design seem to be a better way to make a living than being a artist. plus it made more sense to me than anything else.
so umm college age...
- Al_dizzle0
Grade 11... (16?)
Only did it because Graphic design was the lowest hanging fruit.
- dyspl0
"didn't event know I wanted to be a designer. I went to art school simply because I suck at everything else and design seem to be a better way to make a living than being a artist. plus it made more sense to me than anything else.
so umm college age..."this.
- scarabin0
i told people when i was a little kid i wanted to be an artist, just because adults love to ask what you want to be when you grow up and art sounded fun
i always sucked at it but went along with it anyway
somehow i've convinced people i'm an artist so i'm just stringing it along until someone figures out i'm pretending
- brandelec0
18
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- nocomply0
It started around age 16 when I wanted to create and publish my own 'zine about the local skating and punk rock scene.
The 'zine never happened because it seemed like too much work and too expensive to print, so I decided to make a website instead.
No one ever visited the website except for a couple of friends, but it did win a Geocities award.
The rest, as they say, is history.
- CALLES0
I'm a designer?!?!?!
*logs out never to return to qbn
- d_rek0
I was 20 when I first discovered 'Design' as a profession. The head of the Fine Arts department at the community college I was attending at the time made me aware of it's existence by simply asking me if I wanted to me make some money doing some side work for the College.
- d_rek0
I was 20 when I first discovered 'Design' as a profession. The head of the Fine Arts department at the community college I was attending at the time made me aware of it's existence by simply asking me if I wanted to me make some money doing some side work for the College.
- sureshot0
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- exador10
always had a passion for art, since i could hold a pencil....
most of my life I figured I'd be doing something artistic....was the one thing i had a talent at.
sometime around the age of 14 or so, i was walking through the mall and saw an artist with a set up selling canvases of the usual oil painting crap...seashores, cats etc...the guy looked fucking miserable. i freaked. ...there was NO way i wanted a future that looked like that....
around about the same time, i was in business class in highschool...grade 10 or so i think....was 15, i remember that much...
any how, the teacher showed us a video about working at Chiat Day....i was absolutely fucking sold.
Lee Clow was the main focus of the video.
he was running around like Jim Henson on crack, working on ads, and mostly from what i could see, having the fucking time of his life...
everyone there looked like a stoned hippy just having a blast...yep..that was all it took....
from the time i was 15, i knew with absolute crystal clarity what i wanted.advertising/design.....
it's been a long, long time since then (I'm 40 now) and I've since seen it's a lot different from the video i saw at age 15....but i have never once regretted going into this field....
i've been able to 'be' an artist for my entire adult life. designing, drawing creating...all of it....
it's never been boring, and i still wake up every day happy to go to the office....i get to work on projects large and small....from clients that are tiny 'company around the corner' to brands like Google and top drawer stuff like that....hell....even got to work on a bunch of stuff for Barack Obama...which was fun as hell.....
can't even imagine another career....nothing could compare to this....
- Cool story, bro.
No, like really.
Not being ironic. Or snide.mikotondria3
- Cool story, bro.
- maquito0
18
- Maaku0
20, after withdrawing all the advertising career classes one by one....later that year I changed to the communication design program.