Design Careers

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DESIGN CAREERS : Design professionals are the visual communicators of our world, conveying a million words in a single picture. They may be graphic designers, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, screen designers, web designers or any other manipulators of images.

Career FAQs Design Professionals tells you exactly what people in the industry do, what they love about their work and what they don’t. Read interviews with a junior graphic artist, senior web designer, art director, creative director, studio manager, Mac operator, freelance graphic designer, pre-press operator, signage designer, multimedia designer, motion graphics designer, assistant animator, design studio proprietor, illustrator and branding graphic designer.

Design professionals can be found working in design studios, advertising and marketing firms, publishing houses, printers, in-house for a variety of companies or even freelance from home. They can use their skills in anything from advertising, marketing and packaging, to newspapers, magazines, films, animation and books. Wherever there is communication, there is a need for design professionals to come up with creative solutions.

So if you’re artistic and ambitious, love pictures or drawing, enjoy a challenge and continually make images in various forms then this career – and this book - might be for you!