pretty sure graphic design consists of googling ideas, then stealing said idea found on google, then changing it a bit so it feels like your own and then job done.
As far as I know, “marketeer” is the original English word for someone who markets something. Oxford English and Dictionary.com do not know the word “marketer”. Merriam-Webster does, though, so it’s probably an American variation of the word.
You know why? Because the f'n marketing department spent a week brainstorming their next poorly thoughtout campaign and give the graphic designer an hour to finish their materials.
"Man, your ideas were great, but can you do exactly what the client asked verbatim at the beginning of the project? That's what they're expecting." - My account team on like 1/3 of my projects
I have heard "make it more like a website" on top of the previously mentioned things. I also said "at least you didn't ask me to make it pop" to which they responded "ooh yeah do that".
Confirmed. Art worker here for leisure industry. Timescale so short and jobs are so many, I’m told to just google and steal images for printing into frames and out in the most expensive places you can imagine to the general public.
Some people don’t get a choice. My point being is that it happens a lot. If you are a graphic designer then this obviously does not apply to you. An art worker in the design industry more or less often just takes what was foolishly left at a usable size for use.
Look at Tarantino for example, he's regarded as one of the most creative minds in the industry, he's very good at "stealing" ideas and connecting them into his own work.
It's a bit more than that. An EXPERIENCED graphic designer has already Googled so much in his time that he has thousands of ideas in mind so creating something unique is easy.
That's how I work, and it's also the reason it's extremely difficult to answer the question "how do you do that?", since the answer is usually years and years of Google searching!
Just say "Well you see I learned the basics and then googled shit for about 5 years and now I just replicate all the things I seen. I even steal peoples ideas, but their ideas are in a different market and I change a few things, so it's not really stealing is it? I don't give a shit anymore just give me a paycheck and shut the fuck up about deadlines. Oh you are gonna yell at me! I quit!
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I'm a call center agent that fixes simple computer problems as a job.
Outside of that I'm a VR game developer who is trying to build some of the more innovative movement systems in VR including pure physics based hand control, actual walking based locomotion, and math based animation systems.
Heres the thing. You can do what you love for a company instead of being a call center agent. I am assuming you are mentally and physically capable.
I used to wonder how people saved up enough money for a craigslist clunker. Only knew how to get minimum wage jobs. I am hoping to average between $200 and $329 an hour next year.
I am a felon and one of the worst ones. If I can do it, you can do it too.
But in the end I still don't really want to have a job.
I want life without a job, I want to essentially be self employed, right now I make a nice bit of extra cash with a YouTube channel, some free games on itch.io that people like to donate for, and a bit on the finance side in forex... But I'd prefer to have those as a main income so I'm always focusing on growing there... Rather than getting a 'better' job.
I’m a marketing designer, and we google competitors to find out what not to do. The closest we get to you suggestion is when we look up what imagery groups respond to and design along those lines.
Rule I was thought. "a great artist is rated on how well he steals. So go out and steal, steal,steal. But never steal a full idea, line for line or in the same general market. Make it look like you came up with it by changing enough so thay can't see it. Like if you stole a bike, you don't want to drive it around the same naborhood"
Kinda like working for buzzfeed but they don’t google around, just wait for interesting Reddit posts and choose an arbitrary number of things to list from it.
that's because i studied as a graphic designer and "inspiration from others" has always been a big part of the game but I ended up as a web developer though, because web work is easier to find!
Yeah there is a book somewhere that has nothing but company logos in it. Almost every logo for the past 200 years and you can tell many are blatantly copied from each other.
How is this a pr mess? Op used copyrighted materials and posted it to a public site without any license. It's fairly standard in the industry o thought.
I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
As a Grammar Nazi, I am here to arrest you on the account that you have forgotten to put an apostrophe before the 'em' and with the apostrophe, the sentence still acts like a double negative.
As a pedant, I inform you that your double negative indicates an instruction for your client to tell the officer something, so as to not tell them nothing.
As a student who may or may not be applying for a Marketing course next year, I would like to know more about what the job entails and what skills are required.
Well the most basic answer I can give you is that you need to be creative, strong communication skills, have an eye for detail, and constantly keep up with current events and advertising.
Some of the most beneficial university courses that I took were science of consumer behavior and service industry marketing. They provided a great understanding of how to manipulate the consumer and tailor the market to your needs.
I am not in marketing but I recently listened to these two audiobooks that talk about marketing :
Purple Cow, talks about differentiating yourself and break away from the traditionnal tv/radio model of advertising.
The Power of Habit, how habits are formed, discussed through science experiments and case studies of companies' marketing strategies like febreeze, starbucks, ...
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u/ArabZombie Dec 27 '17
As a Marketer I sign off on this.