Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Graphic Designer Career Today

By Myesha Wales


Do you want to become a Graphic Designer in the future? In the graphic design industry, it is expected the upcoming graphic designers would not have a problem finding job in 2014. Thus, an aspiring graphic designer should be competitive enough and must be advanced with his skills and knowledge in the industry. It is important for a graphic designer to create his masterpiece with artistry and produce fresh and cutting edge graphics. When crafty a high quality graphic design you will need patience because it takes a hours to complete it.

Since the 80's, desktop publishing made it to grow and much software were made for graphic designing. Back then there was Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Fireworks helping graphic designer's out there put more force and diversity in designing. Using this tools now made it easy for the designers to take control of the image and make it appear in 3D form using the computer. As it turn out computers is now an indispensable tool in the graphic design industry but, there are still who would not adopt and prefers to use the traditional methods in their creations and masterpiece and craft.

Graphic design professionals need to be able to come up with schemes for the layouts and apply artistic concepts, and they must be able to create visual images that attract and sell their clients products. The use of softwares are commonly used by graphic designers to add dynamics to their design. Desktop publishing tools that a graphic designer must get familiar with are Frame Maker, Acrobat Exchange, Photoshop or PageMaker. The designers should be ready to work under extreme time pressure and should stick with the budget of the entire project and finish the product. In general this work is done in a project basis.

What is highly considerable when you apply for a job is a bachelor's degree in art or design, it is always a plus. Formal training can always be trusted though it is not necessary, but it is difficult to be working skillfully for a company without some training. Now a days 70% of the graphic designers go to college and typically major in art, art history, or product design. To raise their chances of finding work, there are associate degrees and certificates in graphic design that can be available from professional schools. Advance aspects of graphic design are usually concentrated by these programs. What most likely could become to a graduate of 2-yar programs are always eligible to assistant work of graphic designers that involves technical work. There are 250 post secondary institutions with programs in art and design that is current accredited by the National Association of Schools and Art.

Finding work as graphic designer is not a big problem because a lot of businesses are in need of their expertise and computer design firms have grown in numbers today. The internet will help a lot of graphic designers to make work because primarily in designing the best web page, the need for a very skilled graphic designer is always imminent. The continuing need for graphic designers is inevitable because many businesses maintain emphasis on visual attraction schemes for use in communications, publications, package design, advertising and marketing, television and video production. Opportunities for graphic designers with website design and animation experience in particular are in demand for design projects involving interactive media. As many firm continue to use print and web marketing, and as well as other promotional materials for various products and services the demand for graphic designer would certainly increase.




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