Graphic Designer
Will Lefforge
Basic Skills
You need to be able to manipulate the things given to you communicate with the audience. You need to be good with contrast, scale, color, pacing, and typography. If you don't have this creative ability then you are not cut out to be a graphic designer. People skills will be important since you are going to be working with different people trying to figure out what you they want.
Activities Preformed By a Graphic Designer
You see the work of a graphic artist everywhere and every day in advertisements to books to TV just about everything you see every day had something to do with graphic design. They design what something will look like with color, text, shape etc. Graphic designers are what make you want to do something more. In a trailer from a movie graphic designers put it all together with the special effect people.
What Are The Educational Requirements For This Job
A bachelor’s degree in graphic design is usually required. Associate degrees and certificates in graphic design also are available from 2-year and 3-year art or graphic design schools. Graduates of these programs normally qualify as assistants to graphic designers or for positions requiring technical skills only.
Work Hours
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
National Average Income
Annual Income Income In Texas
Average Hourly Income
$21.22 per hour
Future Outlook For This Job
The job openings for graphic designer is rising slowly every year. Since we are becoming more technologically advanced people are going to want to be more digital.
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