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?

[lovescream]

Uhhhh..

Past
2004: I WAS 11 YRS OLD LMAO. Began w/ xanga. cB really really helped me with making my own layouts and also taught me a lot about HTML and CSS. Although, at that time, I worked with PAINT! OOOOOO, Paint + Word can do wonders. It's no photoshop, but still~
Learned about DIVs and stufff.
Late 2005:I got Photoshop 7 sometime around here. At this point I was so into designing. I had a myspace and even did DIV layouts on this and stuff haha. This also taught me a lot more about CSS and HTML that I never knew before.
2006?: Got my own domain. Umm I have to give props to Mark(ster) on this, cause he helped me code my website w/ PHP and he gave me tips and everything with the colors and whatnot. I learned a little about PHP because of him. Haha. Unfortunately, due to my laziness, my site was never FULLY coded. I had the layout and most of the PHP, but the pages I planned to have were never completed.
2007: Started my freshman year at a magnet (high) school. We have 'majors'. Basically, they are classes we focus on much more than our others. My major was graphic design. In this year, I learned how to use Illustrator and indesign. I even learned how to do 3D programs on my own at home, because I was just THAT into it haha. I learned so much this yeaaar, forsrs.
2008: Learned how to use flash and became comfortable with it. I have yet to try to make a flash website but I can make flash animations and flash music players~~~! :DDDDDDDDD
Got really comfortable w/ illustrator and indesign too. But my passion to continue with this in the future has burned out a bit. Mainly because I did some real life contests, projects and worked in groups of people. My teacher said that in real life, many graphic designers have to work in groups often times. I'm not a group person, so I guess I went all AHHHH because of that. We had a lot of disagreements w/ designs and aesthetics. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, lol.
ALSOOOO, hmm, we did projects such as designing a cellphone (from scratch!) and then creating it in a graphics program, kinda like this:

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(not mine, just giving examples of what the designs looked similar to)
We also had to design our own music albums and whatnot. Pretty cool projects but I learned a lot about organizing things, fonts, consistency (especially in group projects, everyone has their own style but somehow we had to collab), color schemes, etc. and I guess in this year my eye for design REALLY began to change.

Future: Uh, well, I don't plan to become a webdesigner/graphic designer anymore. I am definitely not crossing this out as something I'd like to do in the future, considering all else fails. I guess I'm widening my options. Before I was all I AM GOING TO BE A GRAPHIC DESIGNER, FORRRRRREAL. I even was almost sure about majoring in the advertising field Now I'm considering to do other things as my future career. I've been jumping around with interests but I think they still are in the designing field. Like I was really into fashion design for the longest time. Drew my own things and stuff. But I'm not sure anymore. I'm just going with the flow now, see what I really love doing. I'm not even in college yet so I still have time to experiment


@ schizo LOL OMG. I remember those nick.com stuff. HAHAHAHA so nostalgic And holy f at being number one. I think you have a bright future, lmao.