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Our company Gecko Studio Shanghai is looking for a good graphic designer to create layouts, corporate ID, illustrations and product presentations. A good designer is hard to find.
Many graphic designers you may find in this website. Im sure you will find some from Shanghai. Good luck 
Is there any way to become a graphic designer without a degree? Is it incredibly rare not to have a degree in this subject?
I already have an undergraduate degree in something different. Is there a "fast-track" solution, or would I have to take 1 year’s art foundation and then a 3 year degree?
Many thanks.
Most graphic designers do have a college degree, however you do not necessarily need a degree in graphic design. I would suggest enrolling in a graphic design certificate program. Certificate programs generally last 1-2 years depending on what you sign up for. This would give you the skills and knowledge you would need to become a graphic designer, and to find work, without requiring you to take all of the general education courses you probably already took as an undergraduate.
I hope that helps! Good luck!
This might also be helpful: http://www.art-school.com/careers/graphic-designer/
Graphic designer develops ’sophisticated’ strategies to cope with the stresses of working for arsehole clients.
…we all know they deserve it!
Duration : 0:1:55
do you need to be good at drawing to be a good graphic designer or is it more about having the "IT" factor? you know what i mean, like knowing what to draw and stuff…hum?
You should have SOME artistic ability to be a true graphic designer. If you want to be a layout artist, like someone who designs newspaper or magazine pages or ads or something like that, it involved more computer know-how than artistic ability. For instance the graphic designer may create the artwork, but the layout person may arrange it in the ad with the text, etc. You can be "artistic" in your knowledge of computer programs like Quark XPress or Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator; Photoshop pros can often make ordinary photos look artistic through manipulation. But true graphic artists should have some drawing ability.
In this video I outline the differences between a graphic designer and a web designer.
Stefan
Duration : 0:8:44
I know that as a professional graphic designer, you will either create your own images or buy existing images. So my question is: when should you use existing images? and when do you decide to draw your own?? What factors affect your decision?
Also, if you decide to use existing image, how do you find the images that look exactly the same as those in your mind??
It’s been confusing me for a long time. I hope you guys out there can help me! Thank you!
It is ALWAYS dependent on the client’s budget. My own illustrations go for nearly $100 an hour, while simple design layouts go for as little as $50 to $60 an hour. If I have clip art or stock photo images available, I can save my clients several hundred dollars in my labor. And, believe me, while I would rather get paid my premium rate for a project, I would still rather get paid something than let a client go.
Some clients are willing to strike a happy medium by paying me to research the EXACT stock photo image, especially if it is of a subject that I cannot capture with my own camera equipment. (inaccesible subject matter or, something, technically beyond my photographic skills)
Remember, that as a pro, it is not what I have in my mind, but what the client has on his mind.
I do advise them that, like most design work, they get what they paid for. Still, at all the payment levels, I give the best if which I am capable, whatever the dollar value of my invoices.
Programmers and designers are two different people, with two different ways of thinking. That’s why there are so many horribly designed websites out there – companies are hiring computer science grads, and not trained designers.
My questions is though, as a graphic designer, how advanced do my coding skills have to be, whether it’s ActionScript, HTML, or anything else?
You certainly don’t have to know the deep down dirty depths of coding, but I’d strongly recommend learning HTML/CSS as a minimum, and then understanding the rest. Even if you’re not the one doing the coding, your designs will benefit from designing with the code in mind. Your designs will translate to the web better, and will be more effective with an understanding of what makes them go.
Most of the sites I do these days are not coded by me, even though I know how to. I do enough to stoke my understanding, but it’s cheaper/better for me in most cases to outsource it.
A graphic designer in Los Angeles has become a budding farmer, raising chickens in the shadow of the city’s skyline. In some locales, though, animals in the shadow of skyscrapers is contentious issue. (Feb. 5)
Duration : 0:1:38
Becoming a graphic designer involves taking design classes at a college level where students can learn how to use important desktop publishing software essential to the field. Use Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop and Quark Express to be a graphic designer with helpful tips from an accomplished graphic designer in this free video on graphic design.
Expert: Terri Sileno
Bio: Terri Sileno is an accomplished graphic designer with more than 20 years of experience.
Filmmaker: Kefa Olang
Duration : 0:1:56
Are you looking for a position in the exciting world of advertising? If you are a young graphic designer seeking your first big break, here is a brief overview of how to enter the field of graphic design. Narrated by Brian Scott of www.FastCashDesign.com
Duration : 0:4:11