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What made you choose your career path?
- hotroddy0
I sucked at everything else
- MrT0
I was doing my art A-level and some bloke came in and wanted a logo design for some educational body. My cynical self now realises he was just chasing a freebie. However, one of mine got chosen and his response suggested I'd have a career in design. The rest, as they say, is depressing.
- sausages0
I was too drug-addled to do anything remotely academic. Design seemed like the least worst option. 15 years later, this is still the case (minus the drugs). Well, mostly minus the drugs anyway.
- organicgrid0
When I first set eyes on that 2Advanced conference room table!
- http://www.ericjorda…organicgrid
- lol. 2a. the butt of every qbn joke circa 2003inteliboy
- Wow I thought the 2Advanced antihype would never end. I think hipster hate replaced it.CyBrainX
- br3tt b@sh just shot his loadmoldero
- gabe0
when I thought my geocities page with under construction signs, random sirens, and an animated mailbox was the shit.
- Peter0
Somewhere in the epileptic seizure that gabacorp induced I realized my years of dabbling around in Paint Shop Pro could harness a power to induce the same reaction in others. Maybe it was the cardial summersaults, maybe it was the blood clots, I don't really know, but between the frantic shaking and vomit there were clearity. An epiphany that I had an obligation to move the world, one twitching spasm at the time.
- shellie0
I went to an art high school in southern California and all my teachers were also working professionals in their field. They all feed the kids pretty solid ideas on how to either go to art college or tick and roll out of high school to a pretty good job. They also focused on mostly usable skills - i learned photoshop and illustrator back when kids that age didn't have easy access to those kinds of programs. But I think that's all pretty normal stuff now for an arty 14 year old nowadays.
- Also LA was really close. Almost everyone I know (including myself) went into entertainment advertising.shellie
- PonyBoy0
I always just liked to draw and use computers... eventually my hobby turned passionate... I quit working at the bank (had a comfy lil 'officer' position) and went to a shitty art / tech school to see if I could handle the work and competition of the field... ... turns out I loved it, was better than the majority of my fellow students and could make respectable money drawing pictures / designing interfaces in my underwear. Whee. :)
- omahadesigns0
I liked art, I liked logos, I took a Photoshop class and it grew from there. Then I went to school for it.
- pango0
I hate design
that's why i decided to design the shit out of it!
- ABLESSINGDESIGN0
Saw an advertisement for Graphic Designer in the back of EDGE magazine, sounded cool.
- Also the Wipeout 2097 package design by Designers RepublicABLESSINGDESIGN
- BaskerviIle0
Was good at art growing up
Studied with the aim of doing architecture at uni (maths, physics etc)
Decided a 7 year degree may be too long
Went to art school, thought about fine art, paintingFell in love with design when I realised that fine art at my uni was mainly about self obsessive, conceptual crap. Design seemed much more useful, and was about solving problems for others, rather than navel-gazing. It was a nice mix of logic and creativity. I naturally gravitated toward typography as it was slightly more tech-y and rules-based. I devoured stuff like Robert Bringhurst, Jan Tschichold etc
My career since then has been about learning to loosen up and trying to see everything as part of a bigger experience. Not just design for design's sake
- Miguex0
I wanted to do the cool looking pages on skateboarding magazines, and I will make my own logos for everything since I was a kid
- moldero0
I used to be a technician for Siemens in SF installing card access and fiber optic security systems in buildings like the embarcadero centers and crap, then I used to come home and animate crap, then 1 day my GF showed her boss my junk then he offered me $10k for 2 weeks worth of work, i quit my job and never looked back, but that was back in '97 where dudes paid us "ferrari moneys" for crap we just did for fun on the side anyway. Gmunk was a big inspiration.
- i've never shown a boss my junk but good on you moldero!cbass99
- skwiotsmith0
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This is a little simplistic, but being able to be part of Swanky/Swank Army back in the late 90s and discovering that I could design record sleeves myself, yeah.- And yeah, I know, that's TDR/Emigre. But these and others were huge influences...skwiotsmith
- MrT0
Also ... saved me when it was cool to be into photocopies and shit type. I mean Raygun.
