Transcript Graphic Designer

Web Page Design: Final
Assignment
By: Cheyanne Hester
Here is a video on why I want to be a graphic
designer, and how I feel about the career:
Small towns tend to have less production companies
Related Occupations:
• Art Directors, Craft and Fine Artists, Desktop
Publishers, Drafters, and Industrial Designers
Graphic Designers
Art and Design Workers
Total, all occupations
EDUCATION:
• Earning an associates degree in Graphic Design
• Some colleges require a bachelor's degree
• A major in Graphic Design or a related field is
required
7%
Will I Be Needed In The Future?
6%
• Yes, but with some hindrance
5%
• Graphic designers are desired more in larger 4%
cities
3%
2%
1%
0%
The graph shows demand for people in this
profession as of late 2015
What Do They Do?
• Meet with clients
• Use digital illustration, photo-editing software, and layout software
• Create visual elements such as logos, original images, and illustrations
• Design layouts
• Determine what colors, images, and typefaces to use
• Present design concepts to clients or art directors
• Incorporate changes recommended by clients or art directors into final designs
• Review designs for errors
• This is to ensure that the client receives EXACTLY what they requested
Mainly, they spend their days meeting with clients, working
on and/or correcting the things they create, and
publishing/printing their work.
Can it be stressful?
• Well, yes. Very rarely is there a career that won’t become
stressful. However, if you are patient and kind to the
clients/art directors, they will be patient and kind back.
It’s all in how you exert yourself.
On average, a graphic designer makes about $46,900 per
year and $22.55 per hour
Changes?
• The only major change I could find is the job opportunities
are almost always unpredictable.
Concerns?
• Like others, job security.
• People are scared that if they make a mistake, they will
lose their job due to very particular clients.
Threats:
• DIY Designers
• They may steal a graphic designers clients
• Penny Pinchers
• Clients that refuse to pay the price, no matter how good
the designer is
• Copyrighting
• Designers fear others will steal their work and make profit on
it
• Stealing their clients and disabling them from using their
work as an example for potential future clients.
• Keep taking as many computer classes as possible in High
School
• Desktop Publishing and Web Page Design, for
instance
• Go to college and major in Graphic Design
• Find a college which provides classes in this field
• Gain an associates and bachelor’s degree in the field
• Take classes in other fields
• Do this so other jobs will be available until I can find
one in graphic design
• Photography
• I am highly passionate about this art form, and hope
to make something of it someday.
• Web Developer
• It is still with computers and requires the same level of
degree as graphics
• Multimedia Artist/Designer
• Honestly, this job just seems extremely interesting
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/graphicdesigners.htm#tab-8
• www.google.com
• Microsoft Word (graph generation)
• http://www.idesigni.co.uk/blog/biggest-threats-facingmodern-graphic-designers/
• http://www.myplan.com/majors/graphic-design/relatedcareers-50.0409.html
• http://3-devs.com/Graphics-Design/ (computers on first
slide)
• My iPhone 6 (the video)