What it takes to become a graphic designer

Art skills (mainly refers to aesthetic ability), mastery of graphic design principles and procedures, the ability to use drawing software, the ability to communicate with customers, the ability to grasp the customer's intentions, the ability to design expression, the ability to turn decay into magic and other personal conditions, of course, but also to have the perfect combination of time, place and people.

Your biggest problem now is to enter this industry first, and after entering the industry, it depends on your hard work and talent. The masters are all working overtime, hehe.

The advice is to go to a large company, no matter how little the salary is. After about two years, if you work hard enough, you should be able to complete some big projects independently, and your salary will naturally increase at that time.

I suggest you go to an advertising agency to do AE first, do it for a while to see how those designers are oppressed, and then make a decision. Hehe.

1. Learning ability. Learning ability is the basic ability that everyone needs, graphic design is a new field, graphic designers should continue to absorb nutrients, master the ever-changing computer hardware and software knowledge, understand the knowledge of other disciplines, so it is indispensable to have a relatively strong learning ability.

2. Imagination. Imagination is a very important intelligence of graphic designers, designers without imagination are unqualified designers, it is impossible to make much of a difference, graphic designers in the creative process of advertising, only rich imagination, in order to reach the higher realm of artistic design.

3. Ability to innovate. Innovation is the soul of design, without innovation, how can we be creative? Innovation ability refers to the ability of graphic designers to put forward new ideas, come up with new images and new methods in creative activities.

The ability to innovate plays a very important role in the intelligent structure of the entire graphic designer.

4. Thinking ability. Thinking is an objective phenomenon that provides a broad field of activity for the creation of wisdom. Thinking ability includes abstract thinking and image thinking, the whole thinking process, is the process of refining, in this process to create image and typical artistic conception, is the graphic designer must have the ability.

5. Aesthetic ability. Designers must have superior aesthetic ability, including keen observation, rich imagination, flexible ideation, and comprehensive aesthetic ability is higher than others.

Everything else is not a problem, technology is not a problem, you can slowly improve in the future, and experience can also be accumulated slowly;

Creativity is not a problem, as long as your laughing and clear brain does not stop running, the source of creativity will not be exhausted;

The key is to maintain a good mood at all times, and a good mood is the foundation of all design.

In addition to professional ability, having excellent teamwork skills is very important for designers, and it is also the fundamental requirement of many companies for job seekers. In the execution of many tasks, excellent teamwork skills allow you to empower your team and make project execution more efficient.

Designers with excellent teamwork skills often know how to communicate. During the interview, the interviewer will deliberately observe whether the communication skills of the design candidate are qualified. After the interviewer asks the question, clarify the logic and then answer it, which gives the interviewer a good impression of strong communication skills.

Tip: There are many ways to improve the efficiency of communication with team members, in addition to improving the efficiency of communication with product managers and engineers through Blue Lake, designers should keep in mind the principle of "seeing people and talking to people".

When communicating with colleagues in other departments, think from his perspective and communicate with him in a language that suits him, which often results twice the result with half the effort.