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Find out what a day in the life of a graphic designer is like from UX mobile and internet design and style consultant Chanelle Henry in this Howcast video.
So a day in the life of a designer or even an art director or even a inventive director what does that look like? Whether you happen to be a freelancer that is traveling from distinct agencies or no matter whether you’re an independent contractor that is at house and you set your personal schedule, or regardless of whether you are getting managed by a multitude of individuals and you are a production designer, each day looks different, no matter what job you do.
You could be functioning on 1 project for 3 days in a row or possibly even a month in row, or you may possibly be operating on absolutely nothing for a week if you are an independent contractor, and you happen to be wondering “Where’s my next dollar going to come from?” The feast of famine. The way that my day works is very… It goes all over the spot. Since I have a lot of customers on the West Coast, I do not get up till 11:00, so I generally get up and then I check my to-do list for the day, that I normally set the day before.
Then I will verify base camp to see if there’s any pressing to-do list things for me. I will check e mail and attempt to do an inbox zero. I only attempt to check my email twice a day. I consider that’s crucial for anybody, no matter whether you happen to be in the workplace or out, to reduce down on the amount of distractions that you can. Since those that are in the inventive field are much more prone to have problems with attention, so you have to make sure that you set these systems in location to have a day that’s a tiny structured.
Days of designers are not genuinely structured at all and it can be extremely taxing, but also extremely thrilling if you don’t like mundane, and then also, if you are an independent contractor you have to locate your personal consumers. You have to figure out what variety of campaign am I going to do these days or what networking occasion am I going to do today? Who am I going to meet? What am I going to say? What perform am I going to operate on? So it really is truly up in the air as to how every portion of your day will go, but it really is constantly an exciting one and at the end of it, you still feel like you haven’t accomplished adequate.
The part that I actually hone in on the most, is project and time management. Due to the fact our brains are wired in a couple different approaches. One, you can’t do two things at as soon as, you can’t multitask. No matter how several instances we can convince ourselves that we can, we cannot. Then the second thing is that even although you may like to do one thing distinct every single day, your brain craves structure. So it is a single of these things exactly where “Okay, I have to decide what days do I want to do this? What days am I going to look for clients? What days am I going to truly do work?”
A single of the factors that I had to figure out was how much money do I need to have to make in a month and how several hours does it take for me to do that? After I came up with that magic quantity – let’s say it really is 4 hours a day, four days a week, so that leaves a lot of time to do a whole lot of other stuff that could get me clientele. That I could use to get myself much more organized. I could become far more healthful. I could grow to be much more social.
So I use a lot of different tools to make confident that I’m spending the proper quantity of time on particular items. I use Harvest as a time tracking tool, which also enables me to bill my customers straight from the platform. I use AnyDO, which is on Android and iPhone and a Google Chrome extension, that allows you to make a to-do list for nowadays, tomorrow, this week and later. So it enables you to place it in four various areas, so as to not fill up a complete year of factors that you want to do, since you can very easily grow to be overwhelmed.
Another very good point to know about the brain, that’s taken from the GTD technique on getting items completed, is that your brain demands to empty itself out typically. So even if you are not going to do it nowadays, let’s say “Oh, no I actually want to make a T-shirt that says ‘Smart Guy’ on it, so I’m going to write that down. So that my brain is not pondering about what that T-shirt’s going to look like.” So there’s diverse tools and techniques and once more every thing operates differently on everybody.
But as soon as you uncover that sweet spot and it’s not going to be overnight and it most likely won’t even be a year you’re going to be continually altering, but you just have to be patient with your self and then also appreciate, like the project management process and time management procedure of other people that are like you in your community.
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I’m thinking that I will consider doing a short documentary film that
actually captures what it is like for 4 types of Graphic Designers: A
freelance designer, a studio graphic designer, an in house designer at a
company and a designer at an ad agency.
those black frames doe.
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It can be a very challenging type of work, at the same time, it is very
rewarding. It all comes down to how you approach it. Structure and
organization especially in this type of work is extremely important, and i
agree that multi-tasking can only mean losing track of what you are doing,
and that means losing important time. Nice insight on your work ethic.
Is computer graphics a part of graphic arts or something completely
different
#GraphicDesignTime
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I’ve been trying to get into the Graphic Design biz for years. I keep
hearing that its in high demand. The reality is, its a lot harder to get a
job in graphics design then it is to be a programmer.
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Wrong! I believe I multi -task everyday. It might kind of maybe look messy
but the work gets completed at the end.
She does not really talk about what the average day of a graphic artist is.
More about time management techniques for herself.
this woman talks nothing about the creative process. she’s not a graphic
designer. she’s a corporate puppet.
This is a great video that speaks to what a lot of designers in the
industry face today. The main thing that I would add to it is that every
day should also help you meet your overall larger goals. Your day isn’t the
only thing that needs structure, your week, month and year need it to and
you should have goals for those that your days are helping you to meet.
this is the worst video on the planet, i’d rather watch a gorilla taking a
crap than this
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RIGHT KIDS THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN! You can do a degree in
it put today its totally pointless. you train for 3 years on software you
can learn in 3 weeks. Most of the courses are out of touch with the real
world. You’ll end up doing personal projects that you’re given months to do
but in the industry are expected to have done in a couple of days.
teachers/lecturers are bullshitters! they are there because they set out to
be graphic designers but have slided into the job of teachers to take
refuge from that vicious world. You’re better off saving your money,
learning software and finding work experience with a firm. Now about that
vicious world of graphic design…..
Some of you may have a lucky break, maybe your rich daddy pulled some
stings and got you a placement or a junior position with a top modern
office firm, and now you’re working as an inhouse designer in the city. But
for the rest of you poor bastards. its a long grooling backstabbing ladder
of chaos to the top. Never in my life have I seen young people be treated
like worthless pieces of shit in an office, crushed, overworked and
exploited for peanuts. If your a poor mac monkey with a 2bit firm that
wants you to handle the clients why doing the work, god be with you. You
are really going to learn the disgusting nature of humanity. Don’t get me
wrong, some clients are nice people and what they want is straight forward,
you produce the work get paid and everyones happy. But on the other side
you have to deal with these selfish arrogant delusional pieces of shit,
that no matter what you seem to do it never looks right. these fuckers will
squeeze any joy from your work and have you chasing your tail all week. And
once you have done the absolute best for them.either they change their mind
about something for the 30239th time and you have to change it agian and
agian , or they’ll go to another firm and slag you off to them. Its enough
to get you hunting them down and beating them to death in the street with
your keyboard. thats just client side. Firms, fuck me! where do i start.
today the competition is so high along with hordes of cheap office labor.
they want you to be everything and do everything so they can save money.
they will eat you alive, burn you out then replace you with some other poor
mofo. they want you to be a graphic designer, a web designer, a programer,
an animator, 3d artist, media editor, the butcher, the baker, the candle
stick maker all rolled into one. They’ll have you dancing on the office
floor like a cat on a hot tin roof. And that just the tip of the iceberg.
If I had to go through everything this comment box would turn into a book.
best of luck.
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This may sound harsh but i find it ironic that she talks a lot about how to
present yourself well to employers and yet she has an extremely painful,
almost condescending style of communicating with people. Take it down a few
notches… especially with the comedy. Wow that would get annoying in the
work place.
alrighty then, now that everyone has had time to resonate and gather their
thoughts I thought I might reply to the bullshit thats going on with this
feed. First of all at no point, whatsoever, have ANY one of you stated
anything positive about the industry unless you were talking about
yourselves. “Oh, I’m always booked,” “designers with degrees are always
asking me for help,” blah blah blah. Yet I’m apparently the narcissist.
Makes total sense. Additionally heres been my problem with this entire damn
feed. Every one of you, are either A) not even in the industry so have no
room to speak on it +propjam2 , B)giving absolutely horrible advice by
telling up and coming artists to never do free or cheap work. By all means,
do a shit ton of cheap work and even some free work for non-profit
organizations/small businesses. This is an industry that operates a lot on
word-of-mouth so if youre known as a shoddy artist with a bitchy attitude
and greedy nature then no wonder you wont ever get any work. However, if
you pay some dues, maybe you’ll get some good recommendations down the road
that will lead to big commissions. C) +Herman Putz what you said about
paying up to 60k a year to learn Adobe software is nuts when you can learn
it is true, ill give you that. However, you have to keep in mind different
people’s comprehension levels. Some need the instruction. I go to the Art
Institute of Indianapolis, on a scholarship so I don’t have to collect on
my GI Bill. I am also self taught. I can honestly say I’ve learned a lot
from the instructors at Ai. They are not there to make you a badass in your
industry, all any degree program is supposed to do is provide you with the
tools to succeed and show how to use them. That’s why they teach the
software, as well as color theory, typography, life drawing, perspective,
art history, and a large number of other aspects of the Design industry.
They give you tools, if you end up being a whiney bitch because you didnt
get rich from it, then thats YOUR fault for never using them. Finally
D-ickhead) +ROFLMAoo12 yoooooou, your comments, exhaust me, like honestly
if i try to come up with some mental visual aid to how your brain functions
I keep coming up with one of those wind up monkey toys that bangs the
symbols together, only yours is broke. Anyways, you sound the most bitter
out of all of these guys. To be honest I feel bad for you more than
anything, I genuinely do. It seems you’ve given up on something and are
taking your failures out on other Designers…..Ultimately I will close
with this, the reason why this entire feed is total bullshit is because all
you guys are doing is bashing an industry you have limited, if any
knowledge of. You don’t know everything there is to know, you just know
what you’ve heard, been told, or some minor occurrence in your own life.
That is not enough to base any kind of judgement on the entire industry
(and before you attempt to retort what I just said, look back at the
comments, the entire industry has been dogged on multiple times by several
people) What you are doing is spreading that negativity on a video that is
intended to be informational for new Design students, as well as kids that
are thinking about going into the industry. It is supposed to be positive
and introduce them to some of the obstacles and resources as well as give
them ideas on what other aspects of the industry they should look into.
There could be kids with AMAZING design potential that could be extremely
successful in this industry. They get on here trying to learn more and all
they see is your limited knowledge displaying blanket negativity over the
entire profession. It’s discouraging to other people and if any of you are
anywhere near as intelligent as you are attempting to be then you will
realize that you are not helping any of the people that read this looking
for knowledge, you are cheating them out of a potentially amazing future.
There is a difference between warning newcomers of some of the negative
aspects of the industry and what to look out for in an attempt to genuinely
help, and slandering other designers and the industry as a whole. You
should all genuinely be ashamed of yourselves. If you are legitimately this
negative then you have my sympathies, you must lead very miserable lives.
Tough crowd.
those students are boring, she’s funny and they are almost dead
She forgot to say that schools are in it to make money as well. They don’t
care about students. They don’t tell students it’s going to be 10 years of
low paying, hard work before paying off the student loans.
Jeezas is she talking to dead people…….smh come on
She did a great job covering a difficult subject. It’s the same in Los
Angeles or any city. What she’s not able to really able to speak for
in-depth is that many of the designers are abused and devalued when the
behavior is condoned. Which is a huge subject within itself. She’s
otherwise made an excellent speech to help you focus on the aspects you can
control. However, if companies constantly complain they can’t find nice
designers, then they 90% likely have a culture issue within the company.
Meaning there is MOST LIKELY a jerk there managing that abuses talent.
Because in those cases, upper-management often loads on more unqualified
managers instead of hiring more designers. This snowballs and they learn to
treat you like disposable goods. This is due to designers not respecting
themselves. If you work late usually, but need to take an evening
appointment. You should probably go and not let them abuse you due to their
bad scheduling. They’ll blame you, but do not tolerate this. It’s not your
fault. You’ll need to prepare yourself to actually fire those clients. No
matter how big a company you need to walk away. There are plenty of
opportunities for good designers and even mediocre designers. Really you
should wean off of recruiters altogether. They are taking up to 50-100%
what you might make on the job. You can really be starting higher at 50-60k
instead of the 28-30k. Don’t let them rape you. You can find work on your
own rather than give some talker a huge fee for doing the same thing you
can do yourself. No offense to her at all. She’s awesome and did the best
job any recruiter could do x10. This isn’t an attack on recruiters, but
just use them sparingly to get a foot in the door and then wean off of them
immediately. Trust me on this. I’m just speaking the truth from experience.
And tons of it.
Call Graphic Designers “creatives” one more goddam time. I dare you. I
double dare you!
“Learn web design, job security, etc.”
I would advise against having that kind of mentality— learning web design
just for some perceived job security. You have to commit to web design
enough that you can be really, very good at it. Otherwise, if you end up
being a mediocre web designer, you won’t be able to justify getting “US
rates” for something that can be bought for Asian and South American
prices. And you’ll end up just wasting your time.
The competition in web design (and development) is stiff now since we are
all using the same tools, frameworks, methods, etc., and it doesn’t take
too much for one to become proficient with those. And the competition isn’t
going to get any easier.
Graphic design, however, is another story since the tools used is only half
of it. The other half has a lot to do with style and technique, which
aren’t as easy to learn and to refine as coding and programming. So as far
as job security is concerned, these students ought to not follow the lady’s
advice and just concentrate on becoming very good graphic designers.
Wow someone get the medic to check the pulse of these people in this room
they are dead she keeps throwing good jokes at them and they drop the ball
again and again lol
Jennifer’s energy is great… shame everyone else is ASLEEP :/
She tries to be funny but it ain’t working on those students, she’s
awesome. I would love her as my teacher any day.
learn webdesign: job security! Code all day… fuck that, i’d study
webdesign if I wanted to do that.
Lots a negative comments here. What a shame! I think she did a FABULOUS
job. Even more … I’m not even IN Graphic Design … I work in television
… and I was hooked by her ability to COMMUNICATE. The information she
gave was super useful for people in MANY professions. And she’s right about
how in today’s economy companies are likely to hang on to you if you go
above and beyond, if you bring something to the table. She had a lot of
positive energy – and as we can see by some of the negative posts here –
that positivity appears to be worth its weight in gold. Great job, Jen!
Thank you so much. God bless u. That was so enjoyable and informative. I am
a geneticist muslim doctor. Genetics is like graphic design because
genetics forms an integral part of essentially every science and medical
field in life. Islam encourages me to enjoy every aspect of life within the
glorious principles of Islam which is the best treatment for depression
many people suffer from nowadays. Thank God.
ugh i still hate lectures and this lady is just trying way too hard…
Awkward jokes lol
The comment section is full of people who have no idea what design is. Just
scroll top.
I thought the first couple of minutes would be cool but it wasn’t. I’m
going to watcha David Carson video. He’s also awkward in his lectured but
he owns it and it’s funny.