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?

[rickysaurus]

I'm becoming a graphic designer, period. There's really nothing else I can see myself doing. I got started when I volunteered to do my badminton team's T-shirt design for the season. That was probably in January of 2008. I fiddled with Photoshop before but it was just playing with filters. Then I found Illustrator and fell in love with its flexibility. I've learned a crazy lot since then and I had a bunch of people at my school asking me to get graphics done for their sport and clubs and departments by like November of the same year. Around about August I started submitting stuff to Threadless and when I didn't get scores high enough to get printed, I played with the idea of starting my own clothing line, which I ALMOST got to fruition but then I realized how craptastic my skills still were and put that idea on the back burner.

My future is pretty much set. I'm going to be graphic designer/illustrator. Freelance or with a studio is still up in the air. I like working by myself sometimes but I also like working in groups sometimes too. Going to Cal State Long Beach as a pre-graphic design major but I'm going to transfer out to an actual art school a year or two in after.