Graphic Designing as a Career: The Visual Sorcerer!

The flying cars that take children to Hogwarts School of Wizard and Witchcraft in Harry Potter and Aslan, the legendary Lion of Narnia are some of the immortal Graphic Designing works that have brought best children fiction to life. Hence, most students of today think that Graphic Designing as a career would mean that they will be dabbling in Web Designing, Animation, and computer-generated designs. But Graphic Designing is a much broader field. It has been a part and parcel of our society ever since cavemen painted pictures to depict what they saw around them.

Pots and pans painted in beautiful colors that you can find being sold in Indian bazaars are evidences of Graphic Designing too. Architects who use software to come up with their designs; fashion designers who design an entire line of wardrobe in the virtual world; and engineers who design machines, piping works and bridges also use elements of graphic designing. Graphic Designing as a career would require you to cultivate multiple skills related to visual communications where you can use imagery and words to transmit desired information to your audience or find solutions to your problems.

Some of the key fields on which you can focus as a Graphic Designer are:

• Print Designs such as Logos, Business Cards, Print Advertisements, Book Cover Designing, Brochures, Posters, Billboard Designing, Magazine and Newspaper Layouts, Greeting Cards and Product Packaging
• Web Designing
• Brand Identity Designing
• Mobile or Applications Designing
• User Interfaces
• Typography or Type Designing

Graphic Designing as a Career

Graphic Design is a good industry for those who are talented and creative. Some of the most popular career opportunities for design professionals are:

• Art Direction: in which they come up with design concepts and presentations in art works, come up with layout designs, handle copy writing for visual communications media, and may even work on product packaging designs.
• Graphic Designing: in which they use their creativity to meet specific commercial or promotional needs of their clients by designing their websites, logos, and displays.
• Multimedia and Animation: in which they work on animation, special effects, and visual imagery used in films, videos, online media, computer games and commercials.

Some Institutes offering Graphic Designing Courses

• TGC Animation and Multimedia offers a 6-month Certification course in Graphic Design
• Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects Institute offers B.Sc. Degree in Animation & Multimedia (Animation, Visual Effects, Web Design, Graphic Design)
• Virtual Voyage Institute Of Design, Media & Management offers 1-year Certification course in Graphic Designing
• Wiztoonz College of Media and Design offers a 6-month Certification course in Graphic Design
• International Polytechnic for Women offers 1-year full-time Diploma course in Commercial Art and Graphic Design

Salary of Graphic Designers

Freshers who choose Graphic Designing as a career are often offered the starting salary package of Rs 8,500 to Rs 15,000 per month. With four to five years of experience, a graphic designer can easily get about Rs 30,000 to Rs 35,000 per month. There is always unlimited potential for talented ones with Lady Luck on their side.

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Source: Ruchi Shrimali (Shiksha Team)