I fell in love with design when...
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- i_monk0
I'm starting to fall out of love with design. Not design per se, but the narrow little window that design is forced through if you want to make money at it.
- breadlegz0
I did work experience at a newspaper and spent a day in each department. When I sat with the designers, I thought "you get paid to do this all day"...
That was it for me.
- pango0
someone lied to me saying that designers get all the chicks.
- 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
- skwiotsmith0
- And yeah, I know, that's TDR/Emigre. But these and others were huge influences...skwiotsmith
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ABLESSINGDESIGN0
Saw an advertisement for Graphic Designer in the back of EDGE magazine, sounded cool.
- Also the Wipeout 2097 package design by Designers RepublicABLESSINGDESIGN
- pango0
I hate design
that's why i decided to design the shit out of it!
- omahadesigns0
I liked art, I liked logos, I took a Photoshop class and it grew from there. Then I went to school for it.
- 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. :)
- 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