cb designers future plans, discussion Options

[brooklyneast05]

let's talk about your past and future with graphic design.

what made you initially get into design? for those of you are pretty heavily into designing now, where do you plan to go with it? do you plan to pursue it in college(if you aren't already) or are you planning on doing something else? if you're planning on doing something else professionally, do you think you'll still continue to do design in the future anyway?

[schizo]

^I don't remember you calling me a bitch...was it just to yourself or did you actually say it to me? I pretty much remember everyone that was ermm...difficult with me, and I don't remember you being one of them.

I actually started on the nick.com message boards when I was ten. They allowed you to have HTML signatures, and I just thought they were so cool and taught myself how to do them. They were really gross...millions of filters, glow, borders. Yuck. Then I got a xanga account and the same thing happened. I opened around six sites on there. All of them were pretty popular, but my designs were horrible. When I came to the depressing realization that xanga was dead, I moved to Myspace and started Schizo. That's when I first tried submitting to CB. I had a lot rejected, but I eventually got pretty good (if I may say so myself) and my accepted submissions brought me 20,000 Myspace friends. I then opened Atomic Affliction, got on staff here, yada yada yada, here I am now.

I actually can't see myself doing anything with web design after high school. I just feel like I'm supposed to do something else, but I have no idea what. Even though it seems like I'm making a ton of money now, it won't be as much once I have to pay bills and such. I just think that being numero uno out of a class of 988 people is telling me I should go for a career in law or medicine or something like that. At least I still have three years to mull it over.

I doubt anyone will read that book of a post, but it was nice reminiscing.

[pandemonium]

^I don't remember you calling me a bitch...was it just to yourself or did you actually say it to me? I pretty much remember everyone that was ermm...difficult with me, and I don't remember you being one of them.I actually started on the nick.com message boards when I was ten. They allowed you to have HTML signatures, and I just thought they were so cool and taught myself how to do them. They were really gross...millions of filters, glow, borders. Yuck. Then I got a xanga account and the same thing happened. I opened around six sites on there. All of them were pretty popular, but my designs were horrible. When I came to the depressing realization that xanga was dead, I moved to Myspace and started Schizo. That's when I first tried submitting to CB. I had a lot rejected, but I eventually got pretty good (if I may say so myself) and my accepted submissions brought me 20,000 Myspace friends. I then opened Atomic Affliction, got on staff here, yada yada yada, here I am now. I actually can't see myself doing anything with web design after high school. I just feel like I'm supposed to do something else, but I have no idea what. Even though it seems like I'm making a ton of money now, it won't be as much once I have to pay bills and such. I just think that being numero uno out of a class of 988 people is telling me I should go for a career in law or medicine or something like that. At least I still have three years to mull it over.I doubt anyone will read that book of a post, but it was nice reminiscing.

i just read that today in your site not too long ago

well i first started with photoshop cs3 trail back when i was a freshman in HS because i had seen and awesome image on someone myspace and looked on yahoo answers to how to edit and downloaded the trail and edited one image and didn't look for tutorials i was a total noob so i just left it.. so later on myspace.. i had seen an awesome layout that wasn't like any other layout i thought it was the greatest thing.. then i started to search.. and found out it was called DIV layout.. well i found a generator which had templates and made the boxes so i looked to free photoediting software and found Paint.net and made some small graphics like msg, pic, cmnt for the layout.. (now i see it as crap, and cheap ), later i found a tutorial on mygen.co.uk's forum on how to make a DIV layout on photoshop and dreamweaver and made a new layout which was wayy better.. and after a few layouts i once stumbled upon createblog looking for some codes.. and that was it and after a year or so stumbled upon this site again.. and stared to look around and decided to join.. and contribute with my layouts.. ..
now designing is just a hoppy i always wanted to be architect since i was in what.. elementry school.. but then i was introduced to photoshop and had my doubts but then i found out that i could just have a minor in it.. so im going to try that and if it doesn't work im still gonna do it, it's my hobby
it's just that art atracts me i've always liked art..