everyone this is graphic designer Roberto
Blake with another graphic design
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so in today's video I'm gonna talk about
something pretty funny
this is a question that came from one to
the viewers are on Twitter
and they asked can you do graphic design
without a computer today?
 two-part answer
 if you're talking about me, I absolutely
can!
if you're talking about anybody under 30
I doubt it!
but seriously now it is possible to do graphic design without a computer
is it practical now? it's absolutely not
practical to do design without a computer
anymore
and employers don't care about it some
of your professors might be showing how 
and it's great to building to be able to do the old school analog stuff, 
its great to be able to use a xacto knife. But in the majority of cases
it's a useless in a relevant skill if your
graph designer if you're a Crafter
that's fantastic and they can apply in
cross over there but terms a practical
skills
I have not had a client, an actual client
need me to you anything without a
computer with the exception
of doing some sketches
and thumbnails which you may or may
not be able to do that as an illustrator
not  every graphic designer
has that skill set I covered that in
another video
if you don't have the drawing skills
what else are you gonna do for them
the tiny executable and relevant to the
bottom line that you're not take time on
to do without a computer. Now if you're
working
for in-house company that has some like
craft services that they need
internally that might be very different.  If you're working for an ad agency
unless you're printing stuff out there
and cutting it out and putting it on
posterboard
to present, again you don't need that skill. and that's more crafting than graphic design
so
what are you really going to be doing
Are you going to be sitting there,
laying out tight manually the old
fashion way when we have a computer that can
do that
if there power is outage because
then your client might be down too
if its local
or whatever I I don't know what the
fascination is
with doing graphic design without the computer anymore
I mean I get from an artistic standpoint...
but if we're talking
about money being on the line. 
If we're talking about the living for clients, if we're talking about delivering
for an employer then,
it's irrelevant and you're wasting
valuable time you can be using
polishing other skills: like storytelling,
how to market yourself
how to sell via social media, how to 
develop a visual brand that
works across multimedia.
these are relevant things today so I
don't know what the fascination with
being able to 
use a leading ruler is other than 
nostalgia
or people wanting to feel relevant still.
I don't get it!
Now again I can do those things, do I
need to?
It hasn't come up, it absolutely hasn't
come up and I doubt
it will be the difference between me
getting a client or not.
So in short yes it is possible to do graphic
design
without a computer is relevant for your
crafting and personal projects I have
some projects like that and I will be
doing and showing you guys on the channel
by gonna make my comic book wall and
things like that but
aside from that it's not a practical skill (in my opinion)
There are skills and people outside graphic
design professional where that crosses
over to 
or specific subsections of graphic design
where I can see that being relevant
maybe if you're a packaging designer then
that still relevant.
I will give it relevance on that one.
But other than that
I'm not seeing it. So yes it's possible and
you could do it if you want to. Is going
to get you hired?
I doubt it. Anyway I hope you guys
enjoyed today's quick tip are if you
guys agree or disagree let me know in the
comments section below let me know your
thoughts
anyways like this video if you like it
don't forget described as always you
guys thanks so much for watching
and don't forget create something
awesome today!
with or without a computer!
