I mean, there's a great difference between a Doctor and a Graphic Designer. A doctor is more prestigious than a graphic designer. Why would someone choose to be a lazy artist?
2007-03-01 22:26:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
regarding the ex-designer's comments above:
as a graphic designer who got into the biz when computers were just coming into use.. I don't miss having to send out for films and halftones, lino typesetting, waxing pasteups, cutting rubylith or camera shot colour seps.. no sir..
frankly, all those "monkeys with computers" out there, may have skewed the market a little - but at the end of the day can't really repalce a competant professional..
I duno what kinda designers you've worked with - I know some lazy layabouts for sure - but I work LONNG hours to meet deadlines, often as a result of tediously slow copywriters, editors and clients.. our job is to make the deadline - regardless of how long it takes some hack writer to flail thru their ad copy, dleiver it late and leave us to pick up the peices.
IMHO, the lazy ones don't last very long or go very far in this business
2007-03-02 05:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a senior majoring in Graphic Design, I have enough experience to say that if I'd wanted to be lazy, if I'd wanted everything to be easy, I should have chosen another profession. The short answer is no. Lazy people do not succeed as designers. I think it is funny that people perceive artists and designers as such. It is funny but also frustrating and sad, considering how hard I've worked and how much I've sacrificed.
2007-03-02 07:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by karemart2007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It must be. My wife is a professional editor, and is always swearing and designers for not being able to read what they're doing. I have seen more than once, a two-page ad in a magazine where the pages were transposed, making the ad senseless, and in the same magazine the copy for the left side was repeated on the right page. Yeah, graphic designers are basically illiterate. Lazy Bums goes with that.
2007-03-01 22:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO!! not at all! You think this because doctors are more close to general public n so r you so u get it all the time.
Graphic designers have high respect in their feilds if they are really creative. For example, hw famous do u think is the CEO of Pepsi or ICICI or any other MNC among the general public? But they do have a name in their world, dont they?
2007-03-01 22:32:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Graphic Design USED TO BE an honourable profession.
First and foremost, you used to have to be an artist. Also, you had to know how to communicate ideas to the lowest common denominator, you had to have good people skills in order to interact with customers and editors, you had to be able to meet deadlines without succumbing to stress and taking fits, and you used to have to know how to SPELL.
Now, every monkey with a computer is a "Graphic Designer", and I blame the advertising companies who hire them just because they're cheaper than the experienced guy.
I'm glad I got out of graphic design just as the computer came in... it probably added ten years to my life.
2007-03-02 03:57:42 · answer #5 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it's the fault of global warming that causes people to become graphic artists! Heck, it seems to be the cause of everything else. (according to the wacko environmentalists) It's either that, or it's George Bush's fault!
2007-03-01 22:31:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they get paid for it. Who care about prestige, it is the money which matters.
2007-03-01 22:30:06 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and bitches and bastards too.
2007-03-01 22:28:24 · answer #8 · answered by The Stig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋