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Step One: Recognize your Design Abilities
Valerie Atkisson/ArtBistro
You’ve got talent!
You have great ideas about how to communicate something visually. You are interested in computers and like to look at how websites and logos are designed. You enjoy art and design classes. You play with imaging software to make images look better and create your own animations, characters, or fashions. You are thinking about a career in design.
Recognize your strengths
That is great. First, you want to recognize what you do well. Is your strength with observational drawing? Color? Telling stories visually? Flash animation? Creating three-dimensional models? Do you learn imaging softwares quickly? Make a list of your strengths and ask your friends, family or teachers what they think your strengths are.
Art or Design?
Think about whether you enjoy executing your own ideas or succeeding other’s expectations for their ideas. If you enjoy working on your own ideas you may be happier in your career as an artist. Artists make work based on something that they want to communicate and then try to sell the work. Designers typically work creatively to fulfill a need of a client such as: a logo, a redesigned home, a dress, a product, an illustration for an article. There is enormous room for personal creativity when working on a design project while fulfilling the clients desires.
yallene
3 months ago
2 comments
it helps a lot
cf0622
7 months ago
4 comments
what areas do photographers have in design and connecting the need for the client?
jskydel
10 months ago
4 comments
i am interested in designing wine labels
JaneGlane
about 1 year ago
8 comments
this has been very helpful to me thanks a lot
janetta
fabfashionista
about 1 year ago
2 comments
this is really good information..i wish i had known about this site a year and a half ago...
tishgreene2004
about 1 year ago
4 comments
this really helps i'm glad i found this sight
ronin
about 1 year ago
4 comments
I wish this site was around when I was a freshmen I am in in a ton of loans and still dont know what to do in design
Juhi
about 1 year ago
4 comments
it was useful
thanx