Designers Answer Why I became a Designer. Break out the cake and bubbly, HOW is celebrating its 2. Were not only celebrating our special day, but were celebrating the design industry, which is why we asked readers to tell us why they became a designer or to share an experience that influenced their decision for this career path. We received stories that are heart warming, comical and inspirational. See for yourself. I became a designer not to make the world pretty, but to help the world make smarter decisions. Threadless, interactive designerwww. I was actually on the career path to become an accountant. I like math and I loved being creative. The stereotype of the starving artist was all I had to go on when thinking of a future for myselfand I did not want to be starving. I had never actually heard of graphic design until a few days before high school graduation. In college I excelled in my accountingmath courses but it was one class and one teacher that changed my future. This accounting teacher loved accountingall the debits and credits and double entry journaling stuff made her excited. I looked at her and thought to myself I will never be that excited about accounting. From that moment on, all I could imagine was a dreary gray future with an adding machine stuck to my fingertips. Yuck So I began researching the graphic design industry just to make sure it wasnt a dying industryha I visited designers and quickly fell in love with the fact that a creative individual could make a living being creative. Now, more than 1. I realize that my love for math actually translates into a love for details as a graphic designer. My future is colorful and vibrant. From portrait pages to science class experiments, we pulled together more than 30 great yearbook design ideas from schools we love. Hot Bizzle City Business Classifieds Marketplace offers business automobile electronics fashion household jobs ads realestate list deals shopping s. When shooting a documentary, the vast majority of what you film gets edited out of the final production. But instead of letting thousands of hours of breathtaking. Find and save ideas about Web design on Pinterest. See more ideas about Website layout, Layout site and Ui design. Garrett.jpg' alt='Best Software For Yearbook Design Covers' title='Best Software For Yearbook Design Covers' />And I will never be stuck inside a dreary cubicle with an adding machine stuck to my fingertips. Shawna Mansfield. Gamut Design Group www. I came into the design field via a battery of career tests. Best Software For Yearbook Design Covers' title='Best Software For Yearbook Design Covers' />All of them mentioned graphic design as a likely field for me. My response Whats graphic designAfter being assured I didnt have to draw this was when computers were being introduced, I felt confident enough to check it. Ive never looked back. Cairril Mills, principal Cairril. Design Marketing, Inc. Queensryche Dedicated To Chaos Free Download. I was always fascinated with the relationship between type and image. I found old propaganda posters, packaging, records and movie posters with really strong graphics and bold types very inspiring. Bridgid Mc. Carren. HOW magazine, art directorwww. HOWDesign. com 5. I became a Graphic Designer because I liked artI got a BFA, but needed to make a living. Since those days 3. I have come to appreciate my job as one of the best, for always offering learning opportunities. I learn every day. Ive come to realize that everything we do is experiential, from a web page to signage and videos to brochures. Everything we create needs to take the end users experience into account. I think being a designer has increased my thirst for learning. The more I know, the more I want to know and the better my solutions. Bruce Mau said, Its not about the world of design, its about the design of the world. I am a contributor to the evolution of the world. We all are. Judy Wiebe, creative services manager Region of Peelwww. Although my BA is in Art fine art, becoming a designer seemed like the best way for me to exercise my creativity on a daily basis. I love the challenge, working with the various software programs and continually learning. But the No. I continue to be a designer is because of the mobility of the profession. My husband is active duty Army and we constantly have to move from station to station. But as long as I have my laptop and an Internet connection, I can work. Whether I do freelance work or continue to work for the company I am on retainer for Pump It Up, I have the flexibility to be creative and excel regardless of where the Army has us stationed. HOOAHJessica Mercado. Creative Services, PIU Holdings, LLCPump It Up7. My Dad. When he saw that I liked art, but wasnt exactly Picasso, he looked into alternative careers for someone who liked to lay out and package book reports, make mix tape covers, and create campaign posters for the class president. Katie OBrien. Fleishman Hillard,  VP Art Directorhttp fhdigital. Ive been a professional graphic artist since 1. I rather lucked into the career after moving to a small town in New Mexico, and finding Sun Art Advertising. By luck, I shall say that the owners of the agency were refugees from the New York City rat race and hailed from an agency there by the name of Ogilvy Mather. So I was trained from A to Z by the best teachers I could ever have hoped for, and to this day, whether I am working for someone else, or doing a bit of freelance through my own business, Eagle Dancer Creative, I am committed to the standards by which I was taught. Having done so here in Las Vegas, NV, since 1. Ive been afforded an immense variety of challenges from casinos to entertainers, to businesses and to notables in the private sector. Rose Marie Olson. Eagle Dancer Creative. In 1. 98. 8, I joined the yearbook club. My high school was a tiny universe of about 3. Japan. It was small with lots of big personalities, which made working on the yearbook feel like creating a family scrapbook. That was nice and all and makes for sweet memories, but what I relish most is remembering long hours hovering over a light table, juggling a blue non repro pencil, x acto knife, Letraset border tape and a t square. The smell of a warmed up wax machine and the sticky clicking sounds that a photo and brayer make together were captivating and I could spend hours surrounded by piles of photographs and graph paper. I was the pig and the studio was the shit. Twenty one years later and Im still rolling around in it. Soung Wiser The General Design Co. I became a designer because my high school teacher opened my eyes to the possibilities. I never thought that art, something I considered so much fun, could actually be something I could make a living with. Hes the one that I credit pointing me in this direction and giving me the information I needed. Fortunately, I also was lucky enough to have parents that even though they didnt quite understand what Id end up doing, they supported my decision to move forward with graphic design. Patricia Zapata http patriciazapata. From the time I was in grade school, I knew I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. I was repeatedly told that I could never make a living through a career in art. In 1. 97. 4, as the first senior in my high school to be focusing independently on art studies, I saw a copy of Milton Glasers book Graphic Design at the local public library. The volume gave a name to my career goal. It was proof someone could make a living in the field and it was all the inspiration I needed to begin my college design education the following year. Jeff Fisher Jeff Fisher Logo. Motives, Engineer of Creative Identity http jfisherlogomotives. My decision was made by accident since I had made up my mind in the third grade to become an architect. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin where the only drafting class in my high school also taught a section in photography and basic graphic design. The straight lines and calculations of drafting didnt capture my attention as well as I had thought. I fell in love with the concepts of logos and the theories of why things were placed on the page.