Be a Super Designer
With so many graduates coming through each year in Australia, are you going to get a job? You’re going to have to stand above the crowd and get noticed. Being a Designer isn’t enough…Become a Super Designer.
Hopefully some of these posts will encourage you.
Brands of the World dot com…
Should we use it? As professionals should we go and use someone’s IP? If I was a dentist and all of a sudden I found a way to get free or second hand teeth parts should I start to use them on my patients? How would that patient feel knowing the teeth are second-hand. Why is it [...]
Book Review – How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul
Written by Adrian Shaughnessy and forward by Stephan Sagmeister Adrian doesn’t hold back in this book, he tells it like it is. If you want to be a succesful designer, do what the book says. When Adrian is keeping company with some of the great designers of our time like Stephan Sagmeister and Neville Brody [...]
Choose a Mentor Wisely
There are a lot of so called dodgy designer’s out there. Some of these dodgy designers have been on a trip to Malaysia and grabbed a cheap copy of the Adobe Suite and set up shop. Maybe this dodgy designer has done a year of Secretarial College and an elective in Graphics in Word. Be [...]
Andy Lost the Plot!
Having an understanding of how a studio works and operates will not only help you get a job, but also keep it. This story is true. The story of a young Designer called “Andy”. Andy was in his final year above me at Design School. A model student, funny, charismatic and very talented. All of [...]
Learn to Speak
Learn Designer’s lingo and start to talk it. Join the Australian Graphic Designers Association (AGDA). Hang out with designers. A good friend of mine who is an ex-policeman always said “If you hang out at the local tip, you’re going to smell like garbage. Same goes with Designer’s. If you hang out with Designer’s you [...]
You want to be a Designer? – Then Live it..
My brother in law, Mike is a dentist. He breathes, eats and if he could, sleeps dentistry. His dedication to his profession has often astounded me. I watched Mike transform from someone who didn’t know his teeth from his toes to now a highly trained and promising professional. Even before Mike graduated he knew everything [...]
