Career as a Graphic Designer

Today’s blog is very important for those who are thinking of making a career after completing their studies. But they do not understand that in the crowd of the rest of the people who are struggling to get employment. In which field they should go that can be easier and better for them?

Nowadays unemployment has increased so much. You will see a long queue of youth in the field of jobs, where you will look around. Whether the struggle is for a government job or a private job. Although it is difficult to tell the solution to this problem.

But in this blog, we have brought the option of getting a good job for you. Its name is “Graphic Designer”. Graphic designer is becoming a popular profession in the digital age. Because currently all types of marketing whether online or offline, graphic technology is being used in all.

With increasing visual and graphic effects, its scope is also increasing. So nowadays almost every company needs a graphic designer. Graphic designing is a profession that makes any company or individual reach its own unique identity to the people. If you have creativity skills and you know the basic skills of a computer, then the field of graphic designing may work for you.

Today in this blog, we are going to give you a simple information on how to become a graphic designer. Read the full article.

What is Graphic Designing?

So, we will first know what a graphic designer is? Graphic designing is a response to express some kind of message using words, shapes, images and colors. Also, Graphic Design is also known as communication design. Graphic design can be in any form like physical or virtual.

This is to say that there are some graphic designs that cannot be touched like in our mobile and laptop screen, Amazon and flipkart website products sale banners are called virtual designs. Some graphic designs can be touched like poster, banner, flex, pamphlets etc. which we call as physical design. Graphic Design can be used for any purpose like education, function, ceremony, cultural, political and many more.

What is the work of a Graphic Designer?

Graphic designers through various mediums like advertisement, brochure, magazine, logos presentation, reports and websites, using their skills make layouts and production of words and pictures.

Graphic designer if designing a graphic for a company or client’s product then his job is to know the requirement of his clients’ product and talk to them to understand. After understanding his ideas, using our creativity, fonts, colors makes a good design which reaches people.

Graphic Designers using different software and tools make graphics and send them to their clients and take reviews and feedback. Graphic designers publish the design only after making the necessary changes mentioned in the design and if it does, then give it to the client only.

The data provided by clients has to be analyzed, researched and have to find out what is going on in the market right now before any graphic design is created. Because graphic designers absolutely do not want their designs to look old-fashioned. This is a very important step. That’s why graphic designers have to work in three phases- Pre production, production and post production.

Also, be ready to make changes according to clients’ needs. The design has to be prepare according to the client’s demand by discussing with another office colleague. So that the final design would be perfect.

How to Become a Graphic Designer?

Let’s now discuss how to become a graphic designer? Graphic designer is a job with which we can make any creativity very attractive and present it in front of people very well. Today graphics and visuals are used a lot. That’s why many people prefer to make their career in graphic design.

Graphic designer’s important work is to make websites, banners etc. more attractive and creative to reach maximum people. That’s why creativity is the main aspect in graphic design.

Apart from this software and tools, also mobile, tablet, computer once should have knowledge about it. Some software used are Adobe illustrator, Adobe photoshop, CorelDRAW etc.

To make a career as a graphic designer you should first have to complete your education, develop skills on the same. There are so many courses in the market. To be eligible you must be 12^th pass out. After that for Bachelor degree you have to qualify Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) and for master degree you need to qualify Common Entrance Examination for design (CEED). On the basis of your marks, you get college.

Courses of Graphic Design-

You can do any of these above courses from any institute. We share some of the famous institute of graphic design such as

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Gujrat.
Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.
Department of design, IIT Guwahati.
Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune.
Indian School of Innovation and Design, Mumbai.
Academy of Animation Arts and Technology, Hyderabad.
Delhi College of Arts, Delhi.
Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai.
Image Institute of Multimedia Arts and Graphic Effects, Tamil Nadu.
National Institute of Computer Arts, Maharashtra.

What are your career prospects in the Graphic Designer field?

Graphic designer’s scope is in almost every sector. There are so many small and big sectors that hire graphic designers to do visual marketing of their brands like media, publishing, retail, software Industry, Entertainment industry, News agency etc. you can easily join and work with them. Besides these website developments, web developers, Magazines, books, posters, banners, animation studios also offer good salary packages.

In a graphic designer field, you can be employed in three ways and make your life successful is

JOB – In this you can work with any organization in 9-5 timings.
Freelancer – In this there is no problem of going to the office. You can talk to clients and make graphics. But for this you need to have a strong portfolio. So that people may know how you have worked for previous clients and handover projects to you.
Business – In this option you can open your own graphic designing studio. To go with this option, you must have experience in graphic Designing and a good network of clients. Then there will be no risk of loss.

Everything about Graphic Design

If you want to have 10-15 thousand pocket money with graduation, you can have side income. Here is a list of some freelancing skills you can learn –

Graphic Designing
Website Design and development
Content Writing
Photography and Videography
Video Editing/ Photo Editing
Digital Marketing
Animator
Translation and Languages
Android App Developer

Here we are going to discuss “Graphic Designing”. In this blog you will learn who is a graphic designer? What is the job of a graphic designer? Which software and tools graphic designers should know? How much time does it take to learn graphic designing? How much money do you get for freelancing? Can we make a career in this too? Is degree required? Are certificates required? This all topics we are going to cover in this blog.

You may have noticed many people make their vector image. This work is done by a graphic designer. You must have seen that some websites have some drawings made in them. That is also a work done by a graphic designer. If there is a website, make a blueprint of it initially. This is also what graphic designers do on adobe XD.

Graphic Designing for Clients

Making logos for brands is also a job of graphic designer. Graphic Designer makes 5-6 logo designs to pick one from it. Whatever is our Facebook page or YouTube page, the banner art that is placed above it is also the job of a graphic designer. The best thing is that graphic designing is a field that is going on increasing day by day. The need for graphic designers is increasing.

If anyone wants to open a shop even today, then they go to the graphic designer for illustrations on the website, logo and templates. You can talk about any field, policemen need army people, the corporate world has a mandatory need of graphic designers. Advertisement companies, social media all need graphic designers.

Now the topic is where you can get graphic designing freelance work? So, there are several freelancing sites in the market to find graphic designing freelance work such as Rockerstop, 99Design, Freelancer, Upwork. Rockerstop and 99 design is basically for Graphic designers only.

Tools for Graphic Designing-

When we do graphic designing, we need a lot of software and tools. So, let’s first see which software and tools we need. Mostly used software and tools are

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator – Logos and Vector Image Illustrations
Adobe XD
Adobe InDesign

Besides these tools there are many other tools also. But your work will be easily complete from these tools only.

1. Adobe Photoshop

Adobe photoshop is the strongest editor in the market for photo editing, masking etc you can do easily on adobe photoshop.

2. Adobe Illustrator

To make logos, illustrations and cards then we need Adobe illustrator as it offers vector images. Where the vector image is used, for example – Coca Cola logo is used in bottle cap as well as in big banners. It is highly recommended that first you get familiar with Adobe photoshop, then you should see Adobe illustrator.

3. Adobe XD

Adobe Xd is for designing prototype, blueprint and illustration for the websites.

Another question! From where we can buy these software and tools? All these tools are paid and you buy these from Adobe Official Site. Otherwise, if you are smart you can search how you can use these tools for free.

After download and software installed in your system! How will you learn these software’s? However, there are so many courses on YouTube but they do not cover all topics. So, in this case- Udemy is the website from where you can purchase training courses by experts. These are also paid but you know how to download training courses for free.

Now comes do we need a degree to become a Graphic Designer?

Let’s understand this with an example! In Gym there are normal trainers as well as certified trainers, so certified trainers are more valuable than normal trainers.

Similarly, if you are about to do freelancing for pocket money in your college days or to do a part time job with your regular job. Then in this case you don’t need any degree.

This is because in this field people give importance to your skills and how strong is your portfolio, how high is your rating, how you have worked for your previous clients.

But if you choose graphic designing as your main source of income, and if graphic designing is your career choice, then you have to take a degree!

Certificates Necessary?

No, there is no need for any certification. There are various graphics designers out who can make certificates fake. So, one believes in your certificates but they do believe in your skills.

What is the salary of a Graphic Designer?

In India when you are working for small firms, they will offer around 5-7 thousand initially and will increase as time goes. On the other side if you are working for Big MNC companies, they will offer initially around 15-20 thousand and increase gradually in years or may be in some months.

So, we have covered all the questions mentioned above. This was all about how you can become a graphic designer and do freelancing in your college days and after that you can also choose graphic designing skills for your career option.

In our upcoming articles we will cover more topics on Graphic Designing. So, stay updated on our blog and for any further query, comment in the section below. We are always there to answer your questions.

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How to Become Graphic Designer