- Hey, everybody, this is
Roberto Blake of robertoblake.com
helping you create
something awesome today.
So today, I wanna talk
about graphic design.
I wanna talk about choosing your career
as a graphic designer.
There are a lot of different
paths you can choose
as a graphic designer
and they're going to depend
on your unique skills,
how you want to go about your education
and what kind of job you want to do
day in and day out for a living.
Some of the more obvious career
paths for graphic designers
are to be a logo designer
or to be a web designer
or to be a print designer.
These are kind of usually the trinity,
the staples that everybody
kind of puts themselves into
but there's actually a
lot more to it than that
and I want to dive into
this just a little bit
to give you an understanding
of what might be available for you.
Let's go ahead and start
with something basic.
If you're a logo designer,
you're probably gonna need
some skills in illustration.
It's not absolutely necessary
but you will probably be paid better
and you probably will advance a lot easier
if you have traditional drawing skills.
If you lack traditional drawing skills
but you have a good sense of design,
you have a good sense
of layout and typography
then maybe you will be better
as a layout or print designer
or a production artist.
You could be somebody who works on doing
marketing collateral for
companies as an in house designer
so that means that you
could work at an IT company.
You could work at a startup.
You could work at a law firm
and you could be designing
their internal materials.
You may or may not have to do any logos
but you will most likely be
doing letterhead, branding,
anything that needs to
go out in terms of print,
maybe even advertisements
for them locally.
So these are things
that you would be doing.
You could even end up doing billboards
and that could actually
be really interesting
and if you're gonna do that,
you'll primarily probably
be working with Photoshop
and InDesign.
Obviously, you can be a web designer.
This means that you'll
have to learn HTML coding
and you'll have to learn
content management systems
like Wordpress.
It is possible to design
websites without code
but it is the preferred method and skill
and it is what a lot of people hire for.
When they put out a job
description for a web designer,
they have the expectation
that you at least know the
basics of HTML code and CSS
which stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
So you'll want to get familiar with that.
I've done a couple of
entry level tutorials here.
Also, you can check out
things like Codecademy
and Khan Academy.
Links will be in the description below
and those are places you could learn.
Obviously, there are also courses
for anything you need to know about design
on Skillshare, Udemy, CreativeLive.
I'll link up a couple of things
that I think could be helpful
in the description below
so you can check out some
of those online courses.
Some of these are paid
and some of them are free.
Choosing what career what
you're gonna go down,
again, it has to be about self-awareness.
It has to be about what do you want to do
day in and day out?
What are your skills?
If you actually like things
like packaging and print,
there's a whole side of the industry
that is there for that for
you to be a packaging designer
and that could be a
really cool niche for you.
Within logo design, you
could actually pick niches
in terms of industries
that you want to work in.
My friend, Alyssa Forss, actually focuses
on the pet industry
and so she does anything
with pets or animals
and I think that that's
actually really cool
since it means she gets
to play to her strengths
and her interest.
She also gets to use
her previous background
working with animals in
her day to day design work
so I think that that's a smart move.
Do something that you love
and that you're knowledgeable about
and that you're familiar with.
If you'd like me to get a little bit more
into individual design careers
and some advice on those,
one, I do actually have a few playlists
covering some things like that
and I'd love to bring some
more guests on the channel
to actually talk about these
things a lot more with me.
So hit me up in the comments below.
Let me know what you want
to know about specifically
in terms of different careers.
You can ask me individual questions
or you can just ask me to cover
a certain part of the industry.
Let me know what you're curious about
with regard to graphic design
and picking your career path.
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