Is Graphic Design a Good Career Choice?

If you are creative and passionate about being a digital artist, It is the best career option for you.

Graphic Designing is probably the only profession which goes hand in hand with all other job roles and professions. Look around, in this modern era, almost everything is an example of graphic designing, whether you look at television commercials, posters, newspaper, the decor at a shopping mall or any website, behind the scene someone has designed them to look great.

Role of a graphic designer is to create the visual concept to communicate effectively with the end-users. They develop the overall layout and produce artworks for various applications such as brochures, magazines, advertisements, websites and corporate presentations.

There are many jobs within Graphic Designing industry, one can choose to be specialized in a particular designing skill, such as website, presentation, logo, marketing, print or online media I would recommend following your interest area.

However there any many career aspirants in graphic designing who believes that if they have mastery over a graphic designing software such as Photoshop, CorelDRAW then they can do better graphic designing and have a great career.

However graphic designing is not only learning software but it is an ability to visualize user-friendly & problem solving concepts and create graphics which is able to communicate effectively with their target audiences.

There are many institutes in India who claims to teach graphic designing, but in reality, their main focus is to teach graphic designing software and some tips & tricks to create good looking visual effects.

At the job, designers quite often spend more hours executing the creative idea, for some complex projects they might spend a month just to create the design concepts. Actual production in software comes at much later phase and it's done quite quickly. So, for a successful career in graphic designing, you should be able to visualize and create design concepts. Also, you are needed to draw ideas on papers, so you need drawing and sketching skills as well.

For a successful career in graphic designer role, you need to have a good understanding of colour concepts, composition, user behaviour and design trends. Also, you need to have the ability to understand the client's requirement, target audience, media where your design is going to be published and social acceptance.

If you have these skills, please go for graphic designing and you will have a great career and money in your journey. If you have any further questions, please drop your feedback in the comment section below. All the best!