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Graphic Designers
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Are there any graphic designers on the Shroomery who do it for a living? Did you go to school for it? What skills have you had to acquire?


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: AlteredAgain]
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I think adrug is a graphic deisigner...I could be wrong though.


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: blewmeanie]
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I just been finding myself a bit frustrated with academics. I mean, I do enjoy to study, but I'm also an artistic type. Just considering what it may be like to do graphic design as a profession, working in advertising, media, or just independently. I'm at a point where I need to decide a long-term career path, and I'm somewhere split between the arts and the sciences.


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: AlteredAgain]
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do both :yinyang:


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: Shroomism] * 1
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U can freelance graphic designing/web designing.
It's best to go to school obviously, but in these days, it almost seems difficult to find a web design job, because so many people can do it, or hire a freelance designer.

I've been making my own sites for the fun out of it, and love graphics and eye candy, everything I have learned has been self taught.

You can learn ANYTHING on your own, and in some ways I learn better that way, it would be best to teach yourself, and then take the classes to show them whose boss.

Just do that, and you can make a website/portfolio and be all bad ass.


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: AlteredAgain]
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well I got my BFA from a  top NYC art school. but besides having a 4 yr degree from a good school, you really have to intern at a reputable co.

If you don't do that you end up managing a kinkos...:(


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Re: Graphic Designers [Re: AlteredAgain] * 1
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Graphic design is alright. I do it. It sucks hard sometimes, just like any other job. There are always strict deadlines that have to be met, picky clients, and people who dick around when it comes time to pay you. Unless you get super lucky, you will most likely end up having to take a job in Advertising/Marketing or Print Production. Both of which can be soul killing.

But if your dream is to be an artist, don't sell yourself short and go for graphic design. I thought I was being pragmatic by getting a commercial art degree ("at least I can get a job"), but now I'm pretty unhappy with where I'm at and am trying to struggle into the fine art world without having made ANY connections at a fine art school. Its hard, and since most of my portfolio stuff is graphic design, people don't take me nearly as seriously as they would if I had gone to fine art school and built up a portfolio there.

So yeah, if you want to be an artist artist, don't go to graphic design school. If you want to work in an office with jerks and have the subject of your artwork dictated to you, then by all means, go to graphic design school.

That is all.

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