Poll: What Type of Designer Are You?

Poll: What Type of Designer Are You?

on Nov 1st 2010 with 62 comments

Designers live all sorts of lifestyles. Some are students, some work freelance, some work in agencies, other are “in house” designers for corporations or organizations. How do you classify yourself? Are you happy with your current situation? Would you change if you could? Let us know in the comments.

 
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  • currybill

    Hi, I would really classify my self as an illustrator looking for work.
    I have been involved in graphic design since 1968. I later worked in an agency whose clients wanted food packaging, corporate graphics and general publicity. There were no computers and all visuals were produced by hand using pastels; some fantastic layering effects could be had by blending and spraying fixative. A similar technique was later employed with Magic Markers. When I eventually worked in an advertising agency I was amazed at the speed of how a flow of creative ideas was maintained by small teams of creative personell; art director, a copywriter and a visualizer (or Magic Marker mechanic as they were called then).

    After many years and having been a Creative Director of two advertising agencies I moved into a manufacturing company as Design manager resposible for producing eight 400pp mail order catalogues a year, together with packaging for a wide range of educational products and running the publicity department. We still worked in a life threatening environment of spray glue, petrol fumes and long hours.

    It was at that point in 1986 that Apple appeared and the headaches began! Repro Houses & Printers wanted data on tape and they were still doing it when I retired in 1992 by which time our Macs were running on OS 9.2, Quark Express was the page make-up software of choice and only the repro people had anything that looked like Photoshop………….

    Now I have a garden that is running to wilderness and I am wildly enthusiastic about digital illustration. photoshop is an unbelievable invention; now I need to generate funds to upgrade and buy a tablet and Corel painter – if only Santa Claus still existed. I am amazed at the sheer brilliance of illustration exhibited on these pages: applause please for Serge Birault and Jason Seller (incidentally my firewall blocked access to Serge’s site).

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