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137 Questions

Last Answer on September 13, 2021

What are some types of questions you wished people would stop asking

Asked by Question to all about 5 years ago

Well all questions are fine as long as they are relevant to graphic design. I haven't really had any duplicate questions where I have had to repeat myself. But had a couple of totally irrelevant questions such as "do I use rhinestones in my design" and "what do I think of lasers" ...not sure what answers they were expecting, but if I get any more like that I would probably delete and ignore.

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Would you make a sign or shirt or something that goes against your beliefs for money. Let’s say either presidential Canada the Trump or Biden who ever you dislike and you where asked to make a shirt and they where paying good money.

Asked by Don almost 5 years ago

To be honest if I was getting paid good money and the client wanted a controversial design I would ask for the full amount upfront and design it... I provide a service and do not let my beliefs get in way of the money for providing for my wife and daughter. Back in the early 90's when typesetting was done on special typesetting machines before computers I ran a design studio in a large printers in the UK and we employed a typesetter to type all text for designs that was then sent down a ISDN line to get printed out and sent back to paste onto the artwork (yes that was how it was done back in those days) ...well the typesetter was also a vicar (priest) and one of the jobs that came in was to design some flyers for a clairvoyant show ...well it went totally against his beliefs and refused to type any of it ...lol ...so we had to outsource it to get done.

292 Votes

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Have you ever asked someone a question on here? If so do you mind saying what it was?

Asked by QUESTION TO ALL almost 5 years ago

No, never ...lol ...sorry for the short an direct answer ...lol

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Where would you also draw the line. Like making a nude photo or henti porn

Asked by Don almost 5 years ago

Well henti porn is something I have never been involved in and probably never will ...but generic everyday porn I do not have a problem with and is ok to design for. I used to have a client that sold sex toys and had to design all sorts of bizarre adverts for porn magazines. I have a funny story related to this ...I had a meeting with the client and she gave me a few of the magazines that the adverts were to appear in, Straight after this meeting I had another meeting with a client and he want to meet in a cafe in a busy mall. The seating was outside the cafe (although inside the mall) where it was very busy with shoppers walking past. Well, I sat down and pulled out my note pad and it accidentally caught on one of the porn magazines which slammed on the floor with a loud slap ...everyone turned round to look what happened and the magazine was laying with the back of it facing upwards which had a full page advert of a large pink vibrator. How embarrassing was that ...I grabbed it quickly and shoved it back in my bag ...luckily my client did not see it as he was on the wrong side of the table ...but plenty of others saw it ...wonder what they thought ...lol

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If you where not a Graphic Designer what job could you see yourself doing?

Asked by Question to all almost 5 years ago

Well I have been a designer since leaving art college in 1981 ...so that is a long, long time so never had any other career other than that and enjoyed every moment of it. Before leaving school to go to art college to be honest I did not know what I was going to do and considered going to train and work with my dad as an aircraft fitter at the local airport. But at the last minute my art teacher convinced my mum to take me for an interview at the local art college ...she wasn't convinced it was a great career choice but took me anyway. The course was full but I impressed them enough to put me at the top of the waiting list ... a week later I got accepted ...and here I am almost 40 years later still a graphic designer. I often thought of other career paths I would have liked to take and sometimes wished I was an astronomer or worked for someone like NASA

288 Votes

What is your favorite thing to design

Asked by Mr. Fernandez almost 5 years ago

UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . Well I used to love doing logos the most (still do)... then vector illustration became my favourite. But recently I have taught myself video editing, so this is new to me and slowly becoming my favourite... but I combine all my design skills in the video editing.

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Im a beginner looking to create simple graphics for social. How do i turn fonts into sticker like graphics? With what software? Canva? Procrrate, other? Thank u

Asked by Val over 4 years ago

UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . Well I use the Adobe Creating Suite as it is the professional software for my job ...I am guessing you can use Canva ...but not used it myself ...and not heard of Procreate. So I guess you can try Canva and see it that does the job.

283 Votes