Overview
Graphic Designers straight out of school can expect to make as much as teachers and will make even more with experience. An advertising researcher suggested that we see over 2500 advertising messages a day. From posters, to magazines, to packages, to billboards and websites all of these messages were designed by someone. The print, packaging and online design industries contribute well over $125 Billion to the Entertainment Economy.Graphic Design as a career choice covers an incredibly broad spectrum of disciplines. Below is a list of some of the various jobs that a designer can have within the field of visual communication.
Careers in Graphic Design:
Technical Illustrator
Technical Illustrators conceptualize and create three-dimensional images, storyboard sketches, and moving illustrations for animated productions, television commercials, movies, computer games, or set and exhibit designs.
Photo Editing / Photoshop Artist
Photo editing, and new photo editing software like Photoshop has helped professional photographers and designers more easily bring their visions to life through advertisements, magazine layouts, billboards, logos, and just about every other multi-media medium.
Multimedia Designer
Jobs in multimedia design can be found in such career fields as television or film production, animation, audio production, and set design, as well as several other multimedia, and production design fields.
Photographer
Photography is more than just capturing an image. Professional photographers need to learn how to use the camera and other photography equipment such as lights, film, lenses, filters, digital technology, as well as their own creative vision to produce images that communicate the desired message and tone.
Prepress Technician
Prepress involves a variety of tasks including checking proofs for errors and print clarity and correcting any mistakes, transforming text and pictures into finished pages, and making printing plates of the pages.
Web Designer
As a web designer, your work could be viewed by thousands of people everyday. Web designers create the pages, layout, and graphics for web pages, and play a key role in the development of a website.
Freelance Designer
Freelance designers often work for other designers, ad agencies and design shops, as well as directly with clients in many fields. Freelance designers like the freedom, and challenges of self-employment and are self-motivated.
Creative Director / Art Director
Art directors, or creative directors lead creative teams that produce artwork to be displayed in magazines, on television, on billboards, on the web, or on products.
Layout Artist
A layout artist deals with the structure and layout out of images and text in a pleasing format for printed media in magazines, newspapers, and the publishing field with book design.
Brand Identity Designer
Brand identity design is concerned with the core values and visual aspects of a company or organization’s brand or identity.
Logo Designer
A logo is a sketched or graphically designed symbol, set in a specific typeface or font, and arranged in a unique way, with distinct colors, shapes, and designs to represent a company, product, organization, agency, or service.
Flash Designer
Flash is the newest and trendiest technology currently used in web design. Nearly everyone ranging from beginners to experienced web designers are learning how to create and
Illustrator
Illustrators conceptualize and create illustrations that represent an idea or a story through two-dimensional or three-dimensional images. Illustrators may do drawings for design shops, publishers, newspapers, magazine editors/designers, ad agencies or stock image companies.
Motion Graphics Designer
Motion graphics designers often work in the areas of film, television and web design. These designers work with the moving image, animated text, film and graphics.
Interface Designer
Much like web designers Interface Designers develop GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for a variety of applications such as software developers, multimedia and of course web development.
Package Designer
Package designers develop package design solutions for products. Packaging formats can include plastic bags, boxes, display materials for the products, POS materials and require a good understanding of the engineering of the complex folds and materials used to create a package design.
Exhibit Designer
Exhibit designers create designed spaces in museums, theme parks, tradeshows and various other designed spaces.
