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]

Jc (lol is it alright that I call you that?), i'm curious, what do you do in your classes exactly? i'm really naive about actual careers and stuff. my only experience is contests that my school district has specifically for students but.. well, contests are naturally competitive. haha.

[brooklyneast05]

Jc (lol is it alright that I call you that?), i'm curious, what do you do in your classes exactly? i'm really naive about actual careers and stuff. my only experience is contests that my school district has specifically for students but.. well, contests are naturally competitive. haha.

lol yeah of course you can call me by my name.

well, i feel like i'm just now getting into "real" graphic design classes so i feel kinda naive myself. to take any kind of design courses, at my school at least, you have a bunch of general art prerequisites first. so i had to take 2d design, 3d design, drawing fundamentals before i could even get to the point of working with computers. as far as design courses that lean towards graphic design...

computer applications in art - this class was required but it was more about learning the programs than it was about doing actual design.

graphic design 1 - was pretty much just all projects where we had a "problem". the professor would present us with a scenario like a business needing branding and stuff done. then we'd have to put everything together, picking colors, fonts, designing logos, stationary, ect. my teacher for this though wasn't really a teacher, she was filling in for a teacher who was out for the semester, and she was usually a working graphic designer with her own business. so becuase of that we also go to learn more about the "real world" of graphic design and the business aspect of it.

advanced design - i'm in this now, and it's not limited to graphic design but we do a lot of that. it's a project based class too. it's really open though, like my professor will say "ok you're theme is opposition" and then we have create something that addresses that. using colors and just different design elements.

next semester i'm taking a web design class, and a typography class. i think those will be project based too. so i duno if that answers your question really about what the classes are like, if not then feel free to specify more. but in mine it's mostly just project, critique, project, critique. it's not a lot of sitting there listening to someone lecture or anything.