Week 8

This Monday I worked 7 hours and spent 2 hours throughout the week reading the Adobe InDesign Book. I also came in on Friday to catch up for about 6 hours.

Total hours so far: 53

On Monday I finished up the design work on the brochure. Some things still need a bit of tweaking but I'm fairly satisfied. On Friday I began work on the "copy" or the actual content of the brochure. I made titles for the 4 major sections on the inside flap and wrote the description under one of them.

I think what I like best about working as a graphic designer is how you get to pretty much play all day. You are creating an art form and you get to play around with what you like and don't like in your design. Obviously its fun because you are working with something that is aesthetically pleasing. You are given the opportunity to create the "face" of a company or program. It is your job to make sure that they are remembered. It's cool cause you can take ideas from all sorts of places and let them inspire your design work. Every single man-made object on this earth has design elements to it so the possibilities are endless. I also like that the job opportunities for graphic designers are fairly broad. You can work for a design firm that gets hired by outside companies to do design work for them or you can work as the "graphic designer" for any company and do all the design work for any marketing projects they have.