I fell in love with design when...
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- 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
- 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.
- gabe0
when I thought my geocities page with under construction signs, random sirens, and an animated mailbox was the shit.
- omg0
I'm not really in love with design. We're just great fuck buddies right now. I'm not sure where exactly its going to take us.
- MrT0
- 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
- And yeah, I know, that's TDR/Emigre. But these and others were huge influences...skwiotsmith
- 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
- 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
- pango0
someone lied to me saying that designers get all the chicks.
- hotroddy0
I sucked at everything else
- 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.