DESIGN YOUR CARRER Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |

Try as you might,you can escape from the creation churned out by graphic designers.The billboards that you pass by as you ride around town,the ad that nudges into the story space in the magazine you are reading,almost every graphic that impinges on your senses on web pages,the commercials that barge in just when you were getting to that juicy bit on your favourite TV show.Graphic Designers affect your life,and how.you can't beat 'em, and if you've got the instinct for design and the urge to make a buck out of designing, why or not join 'em.

if you decide to become graphic designer, your job will entail everything from planning designs, analyzing whether a design idea will fly and figuring out how you can combine words, image and sounds to create the information you want your design to presentto the audience.And depending on the medium you choose, you'll have to find the most effective way to get message across in print,electronic colour, fonts , illustration, photographs, animation and various print and layout techniques.

As a graphic designers, you'll be aspected to know how to use specialised computer software to create layout and design elements and by using photoshop, freehand, coral draw, pagemaker,quark express, adobe indesign and illustrator.And if you want to say on the cutting edge, then you might also need to studio,acrobat director,dreamweaver and flash.

In most of the developed countries, graphic designers specialise in niches areas-advertising and related service,printing and related support activities,newspaper design and layout, book publishing and so on.Others choose to focus on the computer graphics, videogames, webpages and all things electronic.A small number of designers also work in engineerng design labs,or in scientific and technical consulting firms.

In nepal, most graphics designers still haven't started focusing on mediums.For any enterprising asiring designers out there, you can use that opening to your advantages.The market needs you.
The tremindous growth of the media industry, especially after 1990, has meant a tremendous growth of jobs for graphic designers.With the industry already past the nascent stage now,there are plenty of carrer opportunities in media houses, design studio, and advertising agencies among others.

With the media market ever increasing, with the web turning 2.0, with companies always ready to go one better than their competitors by splurging on advertising and woth every gadget from the cell phone to PDAs employing graphic work, graphic designers will always be in demand.But when you decide to take up the carrer,you are better suited for school or weather you are cut out to be a DIY designer, and weather you want to join the schools here or those abroad.