The Graphic World of Graphic Designers

Have you ever heard of the wondrous occupation of graphic design? The background of the career is interesting, especially since it dates back to the cave men era. There are classes in our own high school that can prepare us for this very special and amazing career. Although, with every amazing career, there is a down side to it, so I am going to also tell you the pros and cons of this very occupation. I’m interested in graphic design because I am in love with technology, I am a very creative and artistic person, and I know I can make a new advertisement that everyone would love.
2.Graphic design started with the cave drawings that we all know and think that cavemen drew, since the Industrial Revolution; the country needed graphic designers to advertise the mass-produced goods (Crum 5). With a job like this, there are certain responsibilities that must be upheld and kept in the work environment. 3.Graphic designers create visual concepts by hand or technology to inform for a certain product, or to captivate a customer’s interests in that product (What Graphic). 10. “Graphic designers perform the following tasks…thing creatively, use computers, get information needed to do the job, make decisions and solve problems, communicate with supervisors, peers, or subordinates, update and use job-related knowledge…” (Common). 8.A graphic designer works a 9-to-5 hour shift, and they work the whole time, so they don’t have any “homework”, which are projects they take home to finish (Holden 103). 7. Whether you go in to advertising, printmaking, or a magazine’s art department, you are going to start as an assistant to an experienced art director. 7.Later on, you will become a senior art director as your prove your worth with your own, origin...

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