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- 23kon0
Pretty much from when I could scribble.
My dad is a graphic designer and was creative director for a big firm him and friends started a few years after art college when i popped out.
Used to spend school holidays hanging out in the studio and helping photographer take shots for ads and packaging, used to go on tv advert shoots, in studios for voiceovers and sit with my dad in the evenings when he was working into the night at the dining room table getting stuff finished for a deadline.
- orrinward20
When I was about 5 or 6 I wanted to be a Lego designer.
When I started secondary school I started wanting to be more maths/sciencey because that's the talent I was praised for at school.
At about 15 I realised it wasn't what I wanted and I started to spend a lot of my time mucking about in Photoshop and reading about design. By A-levels I ended up dropping one of them (my school insisted on 5) so I could have more time for early freelance work. Album covers and websites for local bands. Logos for local businesses etc.
My school wasn't happy because "If you change you mind you won't have the right qualifications to change field". Those album covers and websites did pay for most of my degree in advance...
- BaskerviIle0
I was always into drawing, painting, art etc.
When I was 10 I designed the programme/leaflet for our school play.
My mum used to make posters, tickets etc for her local choir, so we always had lettraset rubdown sheets lying around. She taught me how to letterspace as a kid, weirdly.In art classes as a teenager I got more into graphic design, especially since I was into a lot of music so album covers were a bit inspiration. Stuff like Spiritualized's Ladies & gentlemen... etc.
I also studied maths and physics at school and was all set to do Architecture until I realised that I didn't really like the idea of a 7 year degree. So I did graphic design, which I think I was more into at about 17, even though I didn't really know exactly what it was.
I still draw, paint etc, but I see graphic design as the respectable, commercial arm of the arts. Something you can tell you parents you do, which they may view as almost a proper job
- 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
- ohhhhhsnap0
I had created the webpages for the Dean of my department at a University in Westchester (NY). Loved creating websites. I left when I realized that going to school for CIS was not what I wanted to do but what I was told to do.
I took an advertising course at Lehman College, after drawing, sketching and creating HTML for years. Thought I'd merge the 2 (art and computers)... here I am, 16 years later.
- 19ohhhhhsnap
- inner city kid. we'd never heard of such a thing.ohhhhhsnap
- 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.