Designers!!: Your Input?
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- Rand0
blog acts as a useful innoculation to prevent other threads from infection. otherwise I'd be inclined to ruin threads such as this instead of letting you do it
- save0
I hate graphic design.
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(Feb 9 06, 19:46)Me too..
- Peter0
Honestly I don't know what got me into it. I was about 10 when I sat infront of a black and white screen for the first time, when computer mouses was beginning to be a commoditiy. At least where I lived.
I started clicking, pixel by pixel, to do drawings I could never do otherwise.Drawing by hands was something I never could. Later, of course, I went to college for design, graduated, worked years, but up to this date I can't draw nothing on paper excepts doodles.
Back to the black and white computers. Someone told me I had talent by then. Oddly, when different shades of blacks were introduced on computers someone told me that I was good with colors.
So I just kept going.I never had any intentions with graphic design. I just did it because I could. Probably because people encouraged me.
Now, years later, my proffessional intentions are to move into managing. I would like to say that it is something about me wanting to encouraging others to do what they do best. But that would partly be lying. Easing into managing feels like a natural step. And the reason I want to do it is to prepare for that ultimate dream that so many designers share: setting up something of their own.
- DavidFelt0
Wierd how I got where I am now, and I think most peoples routes would be different to what you may think...
I always new I wanted to do something creative, I loved art at school and went to study Art and Design when I left, I was dissilusioned with this though as the course was all "fine art" and no design, so I jacked it....
Realising I didnt want to give up my chance of having a career in the creative industries I went to my other local college and was sold on doing Multimedia, which was all screen based shizzle, after four years of this me and a friend from college both ended up at this crappy, but somehow large agency in Manchester (www.influencedesign.com).
I had to learn fast here as all the work was print, but I blagged it for a while and realised I loved the medium of print, and I learnt from my peers around me.
After two years of being shit on by the dude who ownded this company me and my freind fromcollege decided to leave and go it alove, and so started www.feltgraphics.com)
We have a real sense that we are doing this for the love now, were not bothered about getting rich and having huge clients, just enjoying being our own boss and critic, and doing work that we love, whatever the costs to our bank balance, personal lives and occasionally sanity!
Wierd huh!
- Dancer0
David is it just the 2 of you?
I have a story pretty much the same, loved art (that's all I could do really) wanted to become a sculptor, but realised that wasn't a viable income.
What grabbed me about "Graphic Design" was "the idea" taking a brief and really looking into it and developing something that really communicates what you are trying to say. The Partners and Pentagram was my first awakening to the sense of producing an idea that is clever, thought provoking and relevent.
I don't go with all this style based stuff that populates the web saying, look how "pretty" I can make my work, and then a year later it's "out of trend". Everything has to be there for a reason, and based on an idea – that is (IMO) where good design lies.
I now can't stop thinking about design and always look for new ideas, a fresh way of thinking and a unique and different approach is what keeps me ticking. I am never going to be loaded, but I will be happy.
- kelpie0
wanted to be musician. went to college to do so. dropped out when I spent most of my time shooting mock news programms on an old TV camera. strange.
Wanted to be a screenwriter/director now. went to uni. dropped out when I realised I was going to be an English teacher.
Gutted clams.
Cleaned toilets.
waited tables.
Decided 'graphic design' was a good broad industry you could carve a creative niche in. Went to college. Didn't attend much cos it didn't provide me with an education. Completed the course from home for a year then tired of it and left.
Did crap jobs.
Drew the dole.
Started picking up freelance graphics.
Found a job.
viola.
- kelpie0
pepper that with a large amount of recreational drug use and you might understand the circuity ;)
- DavidFelt0
yeah dancer, just me and mikey boy!
- roberthuston0
Umm, I am not too used to this website, since I have been very busy, but I will reply, since you did ask a question. I am currently at Western Michigan University in Michigan, USA. How about you? Where did you go, or currently are?
- paraselene0
i was always a verbal creative; never showed much aptitude for spatial awareness, etc. learned pagemaker and pica rule working on a tight little high school newspaper.
studied romance languages as an undergraduate while doing little bits of design to earn extra money on the side. was getting print jobs just cos i knew the programs and then because i was doing print, people asked me to do web.
started a phd in linguistics, woke up one day to realise i was a mathematician. ran away from home. did a number of crazy person things.
got a job as in-house designer for a human rights agency here in london. stayed as long as i could until the money and the kudos became a serious issue.
now work for moth and am trying to become a solid development coder. back to linguistics in the end, eh? ahhh life.
- paraselene0
pepper that with a large amount of recreational drug use and you might understand the circuity ;)
kelpie
(Feb 10 06, 02:07)ditto that. random gigs not included above:
archaeological lackey at digs in the mayan riviera
apprentice pastry chef
translator/assistant/procurer for mad irish businessmen in havana
screenwriter for catalan documentaries
grip/gaffer
glassblower
etc., etc., etc.
- roberthuston0
To all those with concern, sorry, I posted this in an uncorrect manner. Is a better way i should have posted this question of mine?
- Dancer0
I really wanted to glass blower...
but realised that I sucked.
- kelpie0
I really wanted to glass blower...
but realised that I sucked.
Dancer
(Feb 10 06, 02:24)Best
Joke
Ever.
heeheeheehee ;D
- kelpie0
how did you manage to cram all that stuff into *cough* 23 short years then Para. Immpressed.
ps. did I win in the end? ;)
- uberdesigner0
enumerate like son countin his chickens
laying stones that are too old
breaking the hip of what should be
keith richards swinging his blades in hellboy
one.
- KuzIV0
hey kelpie i tried to text you last night because i was flush with the feeling that si macca is fucking awesome. I was slightly drunk.
- kelpie0
I know! I got your text but I was on the phone to me lady for ages so I didn't get it til much later.
cheers mate, omfa! lol
- paraselene0
how did you manage to cram all that stuff into *cough* 23 short years then Para. Immpressed.
ps. did I win in the end? ;)
kelpie
(Feb 10 06, 02:27)in like a shot with that last bit of hot air, sweetie. :D
- paraselene0
yes, in his birthday card we told moth that he's our favourite nt-er but then later we decided it was really you.