Graphic Designers

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Artist, Designer, Graphic Artist, Graphic Designer

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What they do:
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
On the job, you would:
  • Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.
  • Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.
  • Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.

Knowledge

Engineering and Technology

  • design
  • computers and electronics

Communications

  • multimedia

Arts and Humanities

  • English language
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture

Business

  • customer service

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • create new and original ideas
  • come up with lots of ideas

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Innovation
  • Dependability
  • Initiative
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Web platform development software

  • AJAX Hot Technology
  • Oracle JavaServer Pages JSP Hot Technology

Video creation and editing software

  • Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects Hot Technology In Demand
  • YouTube

Computer aided design CAD software

  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D Hot Technology
  • Autodesk Revit Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
associate's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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