Before asking whether or not there is a career in graphic designing, we should understand the definition of graphic designing. Today, I’m going to answer all the questions every person has when he/she starts thinking about a career in graphic designing. So let’s take one by one :
What is Graphic Designing ?
Graphic design is defined as “the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content.”- This definition is from the American Institute of Graphics and Arts.
So basically, Graphic designing is not just using beautiful arts, pictures, infographics, etc. in your designs but it’s more of a practice to use visuals, texts, infographics to create a communication to express ideas, thoughts, or messages.
These visuals could be in form of simple logos or a combination of web pages on a website.
Another definition of Graphic design by designer Alexandros Clufetos is “Graphic design takes graphical and textual elements and implements them into multiple types of media,” Graphic designing has numerous applications, I’ll discuss all of them in my another article.
So by now, you’ve understood the definition of Graphic designing, now the next question aspiring designers have :
How to choose career opportunities in Graphic Designing ?
Let’s go back 15 years from now, the Year 2005 before YouTube’s inception. People have limited options in designing. They used to work for Press Media, Website Graphics, Marketing Designs, etc, and would have very limited options to explore in designing space. But Now, Designing has a plethora of career opportunities, let’s discuss them one by one.
Where Can A Graphic Designer Work ?
Potential career settings include:
- Advertising, Marketing and Branding Agencies like Creative Orion
- Graphic design studios
- Design Team of any Software company large and medium sized enterprises
- Interior Design
- Retail advertising
- not-for-profit and government agencies
- marketing firms
- Self-employment
- Freelancing
Areas of specialty include:
- Branding and Corporate identity
- Web & Mobile app graphics designing
- Digital advertising & Print Ads
- Illustrations
- Social Media
- Packaging designing
- Book design
What tools should one learn to become a pro Designer ?
I’m not going to confuse with you a long list of tools, I’m going to give specific tools which you should learn and master yourself.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Premiere
Figma
Canva
Learning tools alone is not going to help you, you also need to understand the graphic design principles before designing anything.
Where to Learn Graphic Designing?
Learning Graphic designing is easy, there are many courses available online which you can enroll in and learn graphic designing. If you’re not a good online learner, I would suggest you find a place where you can not only be able to learn graphic designing concepts but also be able to implement them on projects. If you are in Faridabad or a nearby location, You can join us to learn graphic design. We are one of the best graphic designing company in Gurgaon & Faridabad. We are helping clients all across the world in their Graphic designing projects and also helping students to learn graphic designing. We conduct regular Graphic Designing Workshops in Faridabad and are known for our best learning approach. Creative Orion is helping designers to shape their future.
