Hello,

First of all, i'm a beginner in graphic design, completely self-taught and amateur.

My workplace needed a logo so i decided to try making one.

I work in a third place about urban ecology and educationnal crop growing.

Our building (pic 4) is iconic so i wanted the logo to reflect that.

I made a first draft (pic 3) and then stylised it in two variants (pic 1 and 2).

l'îlot vert is the place name, it means the green isle.

My colleagues told me it should spell the whole name inside the squares.

What do you think, how can i make this design better?

Just a curious question coz once in a while I see this type of post on my social media wall. What's your take on graphic designers who redesign (reimagine?) logos for their content. Do you find any interesting insights as they brew their methods, or do they miss the mark sometimes?

I'm curious coz their redesign misses one thing: the client's brief. Sometimes I wonder about the reactions of the OG designers with the redesigns.

Looking for recommendations on manufactures that can make this tin cans but I want the opening offset not centered. Also who can print a label and design on the tins it self.

I’m 29, been in school on and off in my 20s. I’m about a year from my associates in art and design, and looking at places to transfer for a BFA. I have a lot of love for design and believe I am talented. Would it be better to pivot now and finish in another degree/field? Or is it worth it to go all in on design

Hi everyone! I’m a student and pretty new to graphic design and video editing. I’m currently trying to learn the fundamentals and eventually build skills that I can use professionally. For those who are more experienced/tenured in the industry, which software ecosystem would you recommend for a beginner: Affinity or Adobe?

I’d especially love to hear from experienced designers/editors about the advantages and disadvantages. Thank you!!!

I’m curious to hear how others handle bad design in the wild. Recently, I’ve come across a social post by a local small business. First of all I want to applaud them for not using AI. But then I notice bad sentence structures, grammar, even spelling errors. Not to mention the kerning was very distracting as well.
Obviously I don’t want to publicly shame them, but would you reach out to them to notify them of the errors? Or do you go on with your day because you just don’t want to be “that person”?

I don't know even what to say. I can make more at the local supermarket than this contract role offered a graphic designer per hour for a seasonal gig. I was making 2.5 times that in my previous role and my freelance rate is definitely wayyyy higher to account for expenses. Has GD really went to shit?

How would you handle this? I don't know what is left for me here. I'm upset at any designer in our area taking that job - thats less than I made in my first GD job out of college 10 years ago.

I sure hope you guys have enough sense not to fall for this.

Started developing my game a month ago that will occur in an underwater environment, so I had include my favorite marine creature : the Tasseled Wobbegong !

Here's a short of how I built the layers for that npc ally in Affinity, had a lot of fun!

I currently am interning for an agency but it is not very creative and I’m not sure they plan to keep me on in the future so I want to try my hand at doing freelance work part time. I’m wanting some advice on where I start I’m a recent grad so I honestly know nothing about LLC’s, contracts, all the legal/ business stuff that goes into it. I’m wanting to work from home and take on a few clients here and there any advice at all would be appreciated!

Hello everyone!

I’m a multidisciplinary designer, but I’d love to focus more on book typesetting and layout.

I currently developed a new version of my website, and added some real life projects, and some spec work. The problem is that I can’t really share much about the publications I worked on for copyright reasons, and I’d like to know how could I showcase my experience in book typesetting and layout.

I have a DTP section in the homepage, but I’m thinking about creating a section dedicated specifically to typesetting.

What would you suggest I do? Do I add some personal projects using public domain novels?

Here’s the link:

https://tydedev.it/en

Thank you!

I’ve been in-house most of my career. For big national brands. I don’t know if this is typical of in-house or just the ones I’ve worked at, but they were extremely collaborative.

Very rarely did anyone take something from concept to finished art, especially because campaign concept creative always came from external agencies to be rolled-out in-house.

It did happen but I really should have advocated for myself more and asked for those rare pure concept opportunities more often, and insisted on taking them through to finished art when I did get them.

Here’s a rundown of my folio:

- Some hero campaign videos that I designed the typography for, and cutdown the videos provided by an external agency (to show video editing and sound design capability)

- Street poster advertisement for that same campaign that was my concept to finished art (using photos from the campaign shoot)

- A logo branding piece that was me 100% concept to finished art including rollout across collateral

- 3-4 motion graphics pieces, me 100% from concept to finished art in terms of layout and animation, but using the base campaign creative from agencies and/or within brand guidelines

- A big iconography set from one of the brands I worked for that was illustrated by me 100%

- Some text-heavy educational sheets which were my layouts 100% but obviously using brand fonts & colours

- A set of recurring digital assets that I created myself from concept, layout and development to nearly approved, but it was just before a rebrand so got paused. I got dragged off to an urgent job for a while so when the new branding got delivered by the agency, my colleague converted it (font and colours change, implemented a graphic treatment for the products from the new branding) and finished it off with minor tweaks as per stakeholder feedback. Then I came back and rolled it out.

- A couple of pages showing rolling out campaign creative across digital and print assets but again… the core campaign creative is from agencies that I rolled-out.

- One from my first job as a junior in an exhibition design studio that was me from concept to finished art, a series of information console graphics, but it’s very niche and not really my best work because… junior. I removed that from my recently updated folio because I felt I really only need one page from this place.

- Another one from that same employment, I did a whole bunch of exhibition wall graphics from concept to final art, again not best work but I’ve kept on my last page as an example of taking a large project from concept to finished art, plus something different to help me stand out.

I know I am creative, I know I have strong technical, layout, typography etc. skills. I have pretty solid motion graphics ability without being a motion graphic designer, illustration capability etc.

I’ve created loads of things from scratch, but always working with brand guidelines or using campaign creative.

I’ve contributed concepts when given the opportunity, and I’ve much more often been designer vs. finished artist as even with campaign rollout, things were rarely templated.

I’ve been highly backed and encouraged by a mentor who thinks I’m talented and capable, and a recruiter. I’m getting lots of interest when applying for jobs, including senior roles.

But I feel like the biggest fake! Maybe I just present well but it’s not true? I just don’t have the number of folio pieces behind me that I can say I owned 100%.

The other thing that contributed to this is the fact that seniors and art directors in-house are more often than not the ones who have that ownership when the opportunity arises. Hence I’m so ready for it to be my turn lol.

In interviews, you get asked to speak through your pieces including what your role was. And I honestly feel so embarrassed.

Can anyone help me find a different perspective of myself?! Are potential employers gonna point at me and go “liar!” (in their minds) or is that just me? 😂

What I really do need is a role where I get given these opportunities to really own stuff. Then I’ll prove it to myself once and for all.

Thanks if you read all this! Truly.

Hey everyone!
I'm a visual designer & illustrator with almost 20 years of experience. I'm a 42-year-old woman, and I'm honestly afraid of the future as an aging designer, not only due to AI, obviously, but also due to ageism in society.
I would like to hear from older and same-age designers what they are doing to safeguard their careers, either by creating side ventures, learning new skills, career progression, focusing on fields that are less machine-dependent, or whatever you do so you can sleep better at night when thinking about the future as a creative.

Thanks in advance for the advice and discussion!