Mellow greetings, all. I'm new (well, been watching the community for a few weeks) and I figured I should at least introduce myself. I'm currently enrolled at a community college in Maryland, working towards my graphic design degree. I'll be finishing up there this year, but I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to continue at a 4-year college ( Read more... )

Something that Ken Carbone told me stuck in my head, basically that your first job is a stepping stone and should be as diverse as possible. Therefore once you have a understanding of many different types of design you can then go into whatever type of design interests you. I understand the logic of it, I mean no one wants to have a portfolio full ( Read more... )

Hi, I've been lurking around for a bit and also waiting for a time that I could be a Newbie and ask about this. I've never had a Graphic Design course, so I don't know if it would be needed in doing this ( Read more... )

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I teach Graphic Design for high school students, specifically Photoshop, Web Design and now Animation (mixed with illustration).  My question for all the wonderful designers out there ( Read more... )

There's a lot a talk about freelancing, how it's necessary to be happy, how it's necessary to keep up with the bills, etc ( Read more... )

I've been contacted by someone I (again) met at Autocross and handed my card to. He's got a startup and he needs someone to help with coding and graphics for some kind of newfangled video game something something (I don't know much about it, and I couldn't say anything if I did... NDA and all of that). As with most startups - no one gets paid until ( Read more... )

So I met a guy at an Autocross (amateur car race that I'm involved in) and I gave him my card. He's a photographer and we started talking, and I agreed to do a website for him in exchange for some photos of my graphic design work for my portfolio and some cash ( Read more... )

Hi there. I just joined this community and thught it would be a good place to post this. In the past few years, I have become very interested in graphic design. I feel reasonably skilled in photoshop and use dreamweaver as well as in design and illustrator (or I'm learning those programs anyway). I would like to start perhaps doing some graphic ( Read more... )

I needed some graphic design advice and I figured this would be the right place to go. I just finished my freshman year at Drew University as a studio art major. Within the art program I have yet to take any graphic design classes because you must take basic drawing and painting classes first. Recently, I've been looking at jobs and internships ( Read more... )