Graphic Design Essay

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I would like to peruse a career in digital media. In the state of Florida there are about 194,360 people with careers as graphic design artists. The outlook of this career is expected to grow 13%. The average annual earnings in this career are $43,390 in the state of Florida.

Usually, in order to advance in this career, people need 1 to 3 years of working experience before they can move on to more advanced jobs. A bachelor's degree in graphic design is usually required for both, beginning and advanced jobs. To get a bachelor’s degree in fine arts or graphic design, programs are offered at many colleges and universities. Most curriculums in colleges and universities include studio art, principals of design, computerized design, commercial graphics production, and Web site designing (collegetoolkit.com). Also, there are some other courses you must take, other than design courses and liberal arts education. Those courses are history, writing, psychology, sociology, foreign languages, cultural studies, etc.

Three universities of my choice that have a good graphic design program are University of North Florida, Florida State University, and University of West Florida. The tuition of UNF is $15,625 for Florida residents per year (collegecalc.org). Tuition for FSU is $19,167 for Florida residents per year (admissions.fsu.edu). The tuition for UWF is $16,511 for Florida residents per year (uwf.edu).

The Graphic Design and Digital Media program at the University of North Florida is a limited program designed to offer the student an in depth study of the field of graphic design (unf.edu). Students will be exposed to unique learning opportunities and industry standard soft-ware packages that will provide them with a competiti...

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...to be creative and I think it would be cool to design things that could be everywhere such as a magazine cover, movie posters, etc. Some things about this career that don't appeal to me are things such as if people don't like my work or if I do a bad job on a project.

Some personal qualities for success in this career are creativity, drawing, and photog-raphy. Some qualities that I can improve on are editing photos and designing things on a com-puter.

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