Ok enough of this. I’ve been doing professional graphic design for at least 10 years now, and I get frustrated each time I see someone whose knowledge of art and design is limited, doesn’t have a clue on typography, and without the least bit courtesy to use the grids that Adobe has graciously included in its software, calling him or herself a graphic designer.
These people are intent on getting the latest Apple gadgets, imitate latest fashion trends and spew designer jargons so that they’ll look cool and be worshiped by the ignorant masses as a graphic designer. I’m sick of this. I get really irritated when these people try to educate me about design! If you’re trying to educate me about Gestalt, you’d better make sure you’ve at least 10 years of professional design experience, and a portfolio to back you up! And if you insist that visitors to your site rotate their scroll wheel around a thousand times until they eventually get to the bottom of your website to view/read whatever you want them to, then you’ve failed as a designer.
Please do not shame the nature of graphic design. Please don’t. And stop embarrassing yourself.
Here’s a little something I found. Perhaps these n00bs can learn a little something.
Below is a list of very common mistakes that so called ‘graphic designers’ make.
How many of these do you do regularly?
- Take constructive criticism too personally
- Not knowing any famous designers in particular Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and not knowing WHY they were famous
- Not Staying Up on Current Events and Design News
- Not Owning the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook
- Charging too Little for Design Projects
- Not Using Contracts to Cover Your Butt
- Not Setting Deadlines for Projects
- Doing Spec Based Work (If you like it you can pay)
- Not Asking for a Down Payment before Starting a Project
- Using Poorly Designed Fonts from Free Font Sites
- Using Display Fonts as Text Fonts
- Using the Comic Sans Font
- Using too Many Different Fonts in One Design
- Forgetting White Space is your Friend
- Not Sketching Before Designing
- Not Using Rulers on Screen
- Relying Totally on the Computer, Especially for Kerning
- Using Photoshop Filters After Your First 6 Months
- Using Low Resolution Web Images for Print
- Not Designing Logos in Vector Format
- Making Logos Unable to Reproduce Well Small
- Forgetting to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
- Not Saving Frequently
- Not Backing up Files on an External Hard Drive
- Not Getting Enough Sleep!
- Stealing or ‘borrowing’ Other Peoples Work
- Using the dash quotation marks instead of true quotation marks.
If you are doing the following (below) I wouldn’t call yourself a ‘graphic designer’, well at least not a professional one and would recommend doing some more research into the subject area.
12. Using the Comic Sans Font
13. Using too Many Different Fonts in One Design
19. Using Low Resolution Web Images for Print
20. Not Designing Logos in Vector Format
/ENDRANT
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