10 BULLET POINTS :
Time Management. Good time management allows you to accomplish bigger results in a shorter period of time which leads to more time freedom, allows you to be more productive, lowers your stress and gives you more time to spend with the people that matter most.
Planning and Deadlines. The reason to-do lists and deadlines are so effective is because they make large projects or goals more manageable. Planning is needed to identify desired goals, reduce risks, avoid missed deadlines, and ultimately deliver the agreed product, service or result.
Advertising Design. Communication. People who design advertising understand marketing and how to promote products and services through visual communication. ADs can effectively display what they want the audience to know about a company and products or services they sell.
Publication Design. Publication design requires an understanding of the type of that publication like books, comics, magazines and, of course, newspapers. Completely different content, different layout.
Branding. With creativity, skill and strategy, a brand can establish an identity that sets itself apart from the competition and sparks a connection with its audience. Even the best businesses would seem dull without good branding.
Design School/Teaching. Those on offer include: graphic design, illustration, textiles, interior design, fashion design, product design, animation, furniture design, jewellery design, computer games design and theatre design. Everything that is now popular and needed. This is all that we see every day, sit on, ride, use and where we live.
Motivator. It allows management to meet the company's goals. Motivated employees can lead to increased productivity and allow an organisation to achieve higher levels of output.
Motion Graphic. Through visual storytelling, motion graphics help break down complex information, delivering the message simply and clearly. Motion designers are in high demand—animation has become an incredibly desirable skillset, identified by designers as the top skill they want to learn in the next few years to advance in their careers.
Vlog. Vlogging helps connect with people from all over the world. The videos created by the creator reach the audience all over the world and that's how it helps people connect with each other.
Video Editing. Outside of professional work, video editing skills can be used for personal projects ranging from family occasions to sporting events that are captured on video, with editing skills allowing you to share higher quality projects.
A few good habits you need to learn :
Willingness to accept criticism
If the owner doesn't like your style, and you, in turn, are not ready to receive feedback, it will be difficult for you to work. Yes, criticism may not be professional. The task of the designer is to learn to distinguish between adequate feedback and incompetence.
Ability to defend your opinion
This quality is paired with the previous point. You need to be prepared that the leader does not understand the subtleties and may be wrong. You must be able to justify your choice and defend it constructively for the sake of the project's goals.
Business orientation
Design should solve business problems, not just be a pretty picture. You need to understand at least in general terms how marketing tools work, what are the technical features of the product and the market as a whole.
For a designer, being on the sidelines of trends is unforgivable.
SOFTWARE SKILLS AND FAST LEARNING - Firstly, they need to be comfortable with design software, such as Corel, InDesign, and Adobe Creative Suit. This software is used by many companies to produce digital prints.
If the graphic design tasks pertain to website development, you also need to know about web design.
COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL NETWORK, VLOG, ONLINE TUTORIALS, ETC - Graphic designers communicate ideas through text and image. Therefore, communication skills are critical to the job. However, communication is important in graphic design in other ways too. Graphic designers have to articulate ideas to companies, clients, employers, etc. It requires strong public speaking skills for presentations and writing skills for proposals. Designers also have to be able to communicate with clients and employers by phone, email, and sometimes through Skype.
CREATIVITY - Graphic designers need to be creative thinkers. They have to creatively convey ideas through text and image. They have to generate solutions for their clients through creative means; for example, they might have to promote a company’s mission through a website or design an image that helps sell a product. All of this involves creativity, as well as creative problem-solving skills.
TIME MANAGEMENT, PLANNING, DEADLINES - Most graphic designers are constantly juggling multiple projects at once. Because this is so common in the job, they have to have strong time management skills. Graphic designers should be able to multitask, juggle multiple assignments over long periods, and meet all established deadlines.
References :
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