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“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones,” the artist Bruce Garrabrandt once said. Being people whose daily job is finding creative solutions, we couldn’t agree more. To visualize the idea and add a pinch of digital art to your day, we’ve prepared a new collection of illustrations by tubik artists, this time devoted to different sides of art, creativity, and workspaces where design is done. Welcome to enjoy and get inspired!

Creative Workspace

No secret workspaces have a great impact on productivity, creativity, focus, and inspiration. And that’s also the aspect of great diversity: some of us need a clean and minimalist environment while others strive for tons of inspiring bits and kits, plants, or books. Inspired by the theme, we’ve created a set of illustrations showing the diversity of creative workspaces.

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Artists’ Universe

The more you dive into art, the deeper it feels like a sort of endless and impressive universe, with each artist presenting a particular star or even galaxy full of amazing discoveries. This illustration collection aims at opening this universe a bit via the powerful and inspiring artists representing different cultures, epochs, and styles, but all having lit their own immortal stars.

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The bright Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

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The pioneer of impressionism Claude Monet

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Maria Prymachenko, a Ukrainian village folk art painter, a famous representative of naïve art

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René Magritte, a Belgian surrealist artist well-known for witty and thought-provoking artworks

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Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement

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Salvador Dalí, a Spanish surrealist artist worldwide famous for his technical skill as well as striking and bizarre artworks

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Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch post-impressionist painter, one of the most famous, productive, and influential figures in the history of Western art

Black and White Artworks About Design Studio Life

Here in Tubik, we know the ins and outs of different sides of the design process, the power of teamwork, and the importance of concentration. As well as the work-life balance issue, so much thought out by creative people. Here’s a collection of catchy and daring monochrome artworks devoted right to that topic.

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Geometric Art of Design

Artists and designers know well that all the world around is full of geometric diversity. This collection of digital artworks also touches that theme: the illustrations are spiced with the geometry magic and reflect different aspects of the design process.

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Curious Cat and Creative Process

This set of illustrations is dedicated to various stages of the research and creation process. This series has a mascot character uniting all the episodes into one line of visual storytelling: meet the curious and clever сat going all the way from a question to the solution.

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Question and problem statement stage

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Research stage

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Systematization stage

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Analysis stage

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Hypothesis stage

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Solution stage

Mixing Styles

Collaboration on a creative project is never a simple thing, as sometimes it has to crush together different visions and approaches to get a wow result. This set of artworks is inspired by that theme and based on the creative illustration at the crossroads of different styles and dimensions.

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All designers strive to experience that moment of zen when everything in their design is harmonic, balanced, and eye-pleasing. Even if that’s just a short second before the next round of polishing, perfecting, and upgrading. Catch that feeling with the illustration below.

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Don’t forget to take creative breaks to avoid creative blocks – that’s the idea behind another illustration from the set.

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Design in Progress Illustrations

Here you’ll find a pack of diverse illustrations devoted to different work styles and setups: from individual work to teamwork, from working from home to office vibes, from freelancing to studio design.

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Getting into work from home

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Teamwork mode

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Research stage in the user experience design process

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Communication as an integral part of designers’ job

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Backstage of freelancing from home

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Teamwork uniting the superpowers of different colleagues

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Starting a design day from the client’s feedback

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Diving deep and focusing

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Working in the quarantine mode

New illustration sets are coming soon, don’t miss them.

Illustration Collections and Digital Art Case Studies

If you want to see more collections of illustrations or discover how they work in particular design projects, here’s the set of posts for you.

Fulfill. Illustrations and Web Design for 3PLs Marketplace

Roebuck. Mobile Design and Illustrations for Educational App

8 Bright Packaging Design Projects Employing Illustration Art

Bikker. Identity Design and Illustrations for Biking Service

Animal World: 4 Beautiful Illustration Sets About Wildlife and Pets

Book Illustrations for Visual Storytelling

In Search of Illustration: Design Process for Illustration Set

ABUK. Custom Book Cover Design for Audiobook App

Moonworkers. Digital Illustrations on Film Production

MYWONY. Storytelling with Brand Intro Design

Tubik in Paris. Design Process for Narrative Illustration

 

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The illustrations in the post belong to Tubik and cannot be used by other resources without a link to the source.

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Graphic Design. Communication via Art https://design4users.com/graphic-design-communication-via-art/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:47:17 +0000 http://design4users.com/?p=2592 The article about basic aspects of modern graphic design as a professional sphere. Definition of graphic design, its directions and skills needed for career.

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Through its history, mankind has invented loads of different ways to communicate and spread ideas or information. Nowadays, we can see that graphic design confidently takes its place among the most popular methods using diverse visual means of communication. Having answered the question “What is graphic design?” on Quora, we also decided to share a bit more extensive version of our thoughts on graphic design definition with readers here.

What is graphic design?

Being now a solidly established sphere of artistic activity, graphic design as a phenomenon and an activity has already been described and explained in many books and articles. Being based on broad practical experience in this direction, we would define graphic design as the art whose aim is communication beyond words.

Graphic design can be described as the sphere of human activity that lies on the crossroads of several directions, first of all, visual arts, communication, and psychology. Basically, graphic designers do the job of communication to others by means of graphic (visual) elements such as images of different style and complexity, types and fonts, pictograms, shapes and sizes, colors and shades, lines and curves etc.

Graphic designer makes all those elements of visual perception transfer the message, so he makes them functional. Therefore, we could say that graphic designers are artists applying their talents mostly not in pure art, but communicating and purposeful art.

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Tubik designers creating characters for a new project

Fields of graphic design

Nowadays, graphic design is an incredibly broad sphere for the application of artistic talents. In particular, it includes:

  • illustration
  • identity (logo and branding) design
  • printed publications design (general design and layout of newspapers, magazines, books, etc.)
  • icons and pictograms
  • typography
  • interface graphics and elements
  • print advertisements
  • big print items such as posters and billboards
  • signs
  • packaging design, etc.

Thus, it’s easily seen that modern designers in this sphere have multiple options to apply their talents.

Examples

On the basis of experience in Tubik, which is a full-fledged design team, we can offer some examples of digital graphic design created here.

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Toonie Alarm (flat illustration featuring a character as the helpful mascot of the application)

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Girl and flowers (flat illustration featuring characters)

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Free Space Wallpapers (graphic design piece setting the theme)

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Monsters Stickers Set  (flat illustration featuring characters/ mascots)

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Underwater Explorer  (flat illustration featuring the character and setting the theme)

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Weather Icons Set  (stroke icons to be used as part of user interfaces)

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Timeline App  (animated illustration providing feedback in the process of interaction with the interface)

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Weather Icons Presentation  (flat illustration setting the theme and featuring location in the interface)

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Lion browser logo (logo designed as part of the general brand strategy)

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Saily App screen animations (flat animated illustration as an informative and stylistic part of the app interface)

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Muscles Magazine (graphic design for sports periodical publication)

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Pull Down — Space Ship (animated graphic design element used in the interface and enhancing microinteraction)

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Travel App Tutorial (explanatory illustration for app tutorial)

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Pikachu Poster (graphic design for small printed forms such as posters and cards)

Even this small set of examples shows how diverse the tasks for a graphic designer can be, from simple stroke icons (which are actually not so simple as they seem to be) to complex detailed illustrations or full development of all the elements of brand identity.

The general aim of all these efforts, though, is to make the image or another graphic element meaningful and symbolic, communicating to the customer or user in a fast and efficient way. Improving communication, making it more impressive, expressive, and diverse stands behind most samples of different graphic assets.

Qualities and skills

Some requirements for the specialists in this sphere of work and art include the following:

  • technical artistic skills and preferably qualification in some sort of visual art
  • artistic talent and creative nature
  • good artistic eye and feeling of harmony
  • ability to draw well
  • good skills in composition and visual analysis
  • ability to work on the analysis of the target audience and possible options for communication with it
  • ability to apply different techniques of drawing and painting, preferably both with manual and digital tools
  • ability to learn and self-improve all the time as the sphere is extremely dynamic and diverse etc.

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Can anyone be a graphic designer?

This is one more question actively discussed on Quora and we also took part in the discussion. let’s review the thoughts.

Physically any person, with hands and eyes working properly, is able to try himself or herself in the sphere of graphic design. As well as anyone who is able to write can try writing, and anyone able to communicate can try, let’s say, management or teaching. In any sphere, there always is a chance to become successful (or not) if you have the necessary basic physical abilities. However, it can often be not enough to become professional and efficient in this field.

Being based on the diverse experience of communication with graphic designers, it is easy to see that to become a professional and bring home the bacon with the efforts in the sphere of graphic design, the person needs to have a number of characteristics. And first of them, as for any creative job, are passion, talent, ability to work hard and readiness for constant learning and self-improvement. Having all these traits, the person will be able to practice necessary skills, to master needed software, to gain the solid basis of theoretic knowledge and so on . Behind the passion we mean sheer and sincere interest to the field of design and feeling it as the source of inspiration and ambition. Without it, designers are able to solve the tasks and provide the results, but they will be technical, without any soul and heart. Book without a soul is just a set of words. Image without a soul is a set of shapes and colors. Communication without a soul is just a set of sentences. Design without a soul is just a set of features. To breathe in the life into all of them, the passion of the creator is a key factor.

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However, with the words said above you can get caught into a trap. Passion which is being talked about is not something that just strikes you one day and tells you «Stand up and go to design». In most cases passion is like appetite: it comes when the process starts, when you try and feel that THIS is something you would like to do and grow in. Even more, there are many professionals who got into deep and sincere passion for their craft in the process of improving their skills or accomplishing the projects.

No doubt, it’s possible to become a graphic designer only through hard work: the person will get the technical ability and will be able to accomplish the tasks requiring, perhaps, lower level of creativity. And in this process people sometimes open great interest and particular talents needed to achieve high results and appreciation in the sphere of graphic design.

One more thing to mention is that the job of graphic designer (again, as any other creative work) sometimes looks so romantic, inspirational, bright and deeply creative that people do not see hard and thorough work with developing some small details over and over again, with tons of iterations and great effort of creating not only good-looking but also effective and meaningful design. This job is not just the firework of bright emotions, creativity, inspiration, self-realization and happiness. It is also hours of search, sketching, polishing, staring at computer screen with non-seeing eyes, communication with clients, keeping the deadlines and guidelines. The ability to combine all those sides of design reality is one more vital skill to make a successful professional.

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So, summing up, we tend to answer: no, not anyone can be a graphic designer. But everyone can try if he or she wishes. This attempt in any case will be the gain as for someone, it will open the door to the diverse world of graphic design, while for others it will close that door opening the others at the same time and giving experience, which is anyway useful.

This topic is so deep that one post is, for sure, not enough to cover all the aspects. We are going to tell more in detail about all the directions of graphic design in our further articles, meanwhile welcome to read in detail about the functional potential of illustrations in UI. Stay tuned!

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Useful Reading

Flat Design. History and Modern Practices

Design Glossary: Basic Color Terminology

Functional Art: 10 Big Reasons to Apply Illustrations in UI Design

State of the Art: 15 Creative Graphic Design Concepts

Illustration Case Study: Winter Olympics Illustration Step-by-Step

How to Create Catchy Flat Illustrations: Designer’s Tips

Small Item, Big Impact: Types of UI Icons

6 Creative Stages of Design for Branding

Creative Stages of Logo Design

Originally written for Tubik Blog

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Insights into the Diversity of Design Jobs https://design4users.com/diversity-of-design-job/ Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:31:56 +0000 http://tubikstudio.com/?p=924 Popular questions about different aspects of digital design as a job: graphic design, icon design, programming for designers etc.

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The field of modern digital design is incredibly dynamic as more and more new tools, devices, products, users’ needs and wishes are opening broader and broader perspectives for professionals. That is why it is actually hard to find such an official position as a Designer in any company staff specifications. Reading bios via internet blogs and platforms you can come across tons of various positions in the design sphere such as product designers, graphic designers, UI/UX designers, interaction designers, logo designers, and so on and so forth. Actually, all of those positions have something in common working over the best solutions for the product use and promotion, but all of them are concentrated on the different sides of a design object.

So, today’s issue of our FAQ Design Platform in Tubik Blog will concentrate on some popular questions along with the nature and differences of some positions in such a diverse sphere as design. The answers are based on the thoughts we have provided for those popular questions on Quora which you are always very welcome to read and where we are always happy to share our ideas, knowledge and experience.

Can you be a UX/UI/Web designer without knowing programming at all?

On the basis of work experience for Tubik Studio and communication with designers from other companies and studios, it is possible to give absolutely positive answer. Yes, you definitely CAN be a UI/UX designer for app and web with no background or theoretical knowledge of programming.

Actually, it should be mentioned that the question if UI/UX designers should know how to code or not is the one of  “eternal” discussions in the design sphere. There are, basically, two camps of extreme positions. One of them claims that programming/coding is absolutely vital thing to know and you cannot provide really efficient UI/UX without knowing how to code. The other side believes that knowledge of programming kills creativity in design as in this case designer is limited with the rules, standards, and restrictions of development. Both positions are supported with numerous articles and discussions and both somehow make sense if you think about the issue from the perspective of real design projects.

Basically, the task of UI/UX designer is to analyze the target audience and their needs, to make research, to create an efficient layout and well-thought-out system of transitions, to wrap it in an attractive but highly usable and clear visual design, and to test the solutions. UI/UX designer is not a developer: they work on the same product but from different sides, as well as for example a writer, an editor, and a publisher work differently on the same book. However, it is obviously pleasant for developers if a UI/UX designer is able to produce designs that consider at least the basic limitations and points of programming and coding.

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There is a great bunch of successful experts in app and web design who have never had anything in common with the sphere of coding and development and provided great design solutions with a very high level of usability. Nevertheless,  it cannot be said that they are totally out of the issue. Designers, who are keen to create viable product designs, usually tend to get acknowledged with a general understanding of development basics. That really supports the designer in providing as effective design as possible, considering all the stages of its creation and implementation. However, it doesn’t mean that without this sort of knowledge it’s impossible to create good designs. Moreover, if designers work in a team with developers, they can create designs without knowing to code even easier as they are supported by developers who control the process from the perspective of coding.

Ideally, the happy medium should be found in this issue without any extreme positions. If designers tear themselves too far away from development reality, they risk losing the viability of their designs and could end up having a great deal of amazing and terrific concepts none of which will be implemented in real products. On the other hand, if designers concentrate too much on the limitations of coding, they risk becoming unable to think out of the box and provide original design ideas. Keeping the wise balance provides the harmony.

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So, to sum up, a person can become a successful UI/UX designer not knowing programming and development; however, this kind of knowledge can be supportive if used wisely.

What is the relationship between UI design and icon design?

Answering the question in general, it should be said that icon design is an essential and integral part of UI design. Seeing the definition of UI design as the stage of the design process which provides a visual representation of all the concept, icons are the vital element of the user interface of the product enabling successful and effective interaction with it.

Working with loads of projects on UI/UX design, we see icon design as the significant stage in the general design process. Since this topic is now actual and popular, we have previously published the article called Iconic Simplicity. The Vital Role of Icons considering the part of icons in creating an efficient design.

Basically, an app or desktop icon is an image that having a kind of symbolic and metaphoric potential that becomes the element of navigation in the process of interaction. In a deeper explanation, the icon is the visual symbol representing some real or virtual action, thing, person, etc. In many cases, icons are able to stand up for the text, and this ability makes them so popular in the world of modern web and app design. If you replace the stretch of copy with an icon, it saves the place for other elements of interaction on the app screen or webpage, therefore, making it more functional without being overloaded. Also, it makes the interaction faster as in most cases people need less time to see and understand the icon than to read and understand the piece of text.

Moreover, the icons efficiently move the limits as they enable people who have the problems with copy perception and recognition, such as those who suffer from dyslexia or the like, to interact with the product. And finally, icons can successfully combine the functions of navigation and explanation with being the aesthetic element of the visual representation of the product, supporting the general style, and having their own character.

Here is an example of the icons set by one of the Tubik designers. It can be used in different apps keeping the style consistent and harmonious.

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Multimedia Icons Set

So, the role of icons design as the part of general UI design is very important that makes designers put considerable time and effort into the creation and adaptation of clear, meaningful, and recognizable icons, which at the same time will become nice graphic elements of the layout in general stylistic concept.

Is it worth learning icon design as a UI designer?

On the basis of ideas in the previous answer, we tend to give the answer “Yes” to the question. Icons are the vital element of the user interface of the product enabling successful and effective interaction with it. Therefore, it is worth learning how to deal with them in case the designer wants to work effectively and create high-quality interfaces.

Concentrating on the aspect if it’s necessary to learn the icon design, actually, now with numerous sets of diverse icons created by professional graphic designers it is possible not to create handcrafted icons but use ready-made icons corresponding to the style of the app. So, to some extent, it is possible to create UI design not getting dip into all the secrets and peculiarities of icon design. However, there can be a bit of a trap, as nowadays with growing functionality and inventing new features the bulk of ready-made icons can appear not to satisfy all the needs of the particular interface. Using icons that do not perfectly fit the general style of the app or website, a designer can risk losing the feeling of harmony.

Understanding the vital role of icons, our designers in the studio not only create original icon packs but also present concepts to demonstrate how well-thought-out icons can support general UI solutions. Here is an example of such a presentation based on the set of icons you could see in the previous answer.

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Multimedia Icons Presentation 

We deeply believe that it’s really essential to study and practice icon design for designers who set high aims in their career ladder and want to be ready for complex design tasks and creating efficient and original interfaces. The experience of work on various UI/UX design projects, dealing with customers, and research of existing design products show the precious nature of the ability to create meaningful and symbolic icons which would correspond with general stylistic solutions of the product and would become the harmonic tool of successful interaction.

To become successful in such a dynamic sphere, you need to be strong and competitive in your field. Practice shows, that skill of icon design inevitably makes a UI designer stronger and more flexible in the accomplishment of different design tasks.

Can anyone be a graphic designer?

Physically any person, with hands and eyes working properly, is able to try himself or herself in the sphere of graphic design. As well as anyone who is able to write can try writing and anyone able to communicate can try, let’s say, management or teaching. In any sphere, there always is a chance to become successful (or not) if you have the necessary basic physical abilities. However, it can often be not enough to become professional and efficient in this field.

Being based on the diverse experience of communication with graphic designers, it is easy to see that to become a professional and bring home the bacon with the efforts in the sphere of graphic design, the person needs to have a number of characteristics. And first of them, as for any creative job, are passion, talent, ability to work hard, and readiness for constant learning and self-improvement. Having all these traits, the person will be able to practice necessary skills, master needed software, gain a solid basis of theoretical knowledge, and so on. Behind the passion, we mean sheer and sincere interest in the field of design and feeling it as the source of inspiration and ambition. Without it, designers are able to solve the tasks and provide the results, but they will be technical, without any soul and heart. A book without a soul is just a set of words. Image without a soul is a set for shapes and colors. Communication without a soul is just a set of sentences. Design without a soul is just a set of features. To breathe in life into all of them, the passion of the creator is a key factor.

However, with my words above you can get caught in a trap. The passion which is being talked about is not something that just strikes you one day and tells you “Stand up and go to design”. In most cases passion is like appetite: it comes when the process starts when you try and feel that THIS is something you would like to do and grow in. Even more, there are many professionals who got into a deep and sincere passion for their craft in the process of improving their skills or accomplishing the projects.

Insights into the Diversity of Design Jobs

No doubt, it’s possible to become a graphic designer only through hard work: the person will get the technical ability and will be able to accomplish the tasks requiring, perhaps, a lower level of creativity. And in this process, people sometimes open great interest and particular talents needed to achieve high results and appreciation in the sphere of graphic design.

One more thing to mention is that the job of a graphic designer (again, as any other creative work) sometimes looks so romantic, inspirational, bright, and deeply creative that people do not see hard and thorough work with developing some small details over and over again, with tons of iterations and great effort of creating not only good-looking but also effective and meaningful design. This job is not just the firework of bright emotions, creativity, inspiration, self-realization, and happiness. It is also hours of search, sketching, polishing, staring at the computer screen with non-seeing eyes, communicating with clients, keeping the deadlines and guidelines. The ability to combine all those sides of design reality is one more vital skill to make a successful professional.

Insights into the Diversity of Design Jobs

So, summing up, we tend to answer: no, not anyone can be a graphic designer. But everyone can try if he or she wishes. This attempt, in any case, will be the gain as for someone it will open the door to the diverse world of graphic design, while for the others it will close that door opening the others at the same time and giving an experience which is anyway useful.

Originally written for Tubik Blog

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