Monday, August 10, 2009

Graphic Designing As a Career Option

There are innumerable people who possess a creative bent of mind that can grow from a hobby to a viable career option. There are several people who are good at drawing, and programme in graphic design and animation are perfectly suited for them as a profession. This course involves training self in developing the most artistic and visually pleasing designs with the help of technology. The designing software available nowadays allow us to break all the barriers and create what we visualize in our minds. There are a few reputed institutions in India that run PG courses for graphic designing and impart the knowledge required for making consumer centric art as well as harnessing the potential of technology.

After graduating as a graphic designer from a renowned PG college India, you work on projects pertaining to the development of logos, product packaging schemes, billboard designs etc.

But, while pursuing the course, you are taught drawing as a subject, its theory and incorporation with technology to develop high quality audience oriented pieces of art. After completing the programme in graphic design, job opportunities for you lie in the fields of print design (for magazines, newspapers & websites), product design, advertizing and logo production. There are several animation studios established all over the world, like Pixar & DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures & Sony pictures Animation, which hire graphic designers and animators for creating characters for their mainstream movies.

The colleges that run PG courses in graphic designing teach the students how to use designing software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe illustrator, Adobe Indesign and QuarkXpress with full proficiency. All software can be used at the state of the art production laboratories maintained by the institutes, which house modern animation studios that consist of the latest computers and designing hardware. The professors of that conduct the variegated classes of the programme in graphic designing are experts of the field, who possess years of industry experience as designers and animators. Their mastery over in this competitive line of art helps the students in gaining clear understanding of the nuances involved in the whole designing process.

At the PG colleges India, the graphic designers learn how to develop an impressive portfolio, which is akin to your Curriculum Vitae in the designing world. The illustrators need to create their best work and showcase it in the most striking manner in order to land dream jobs and start a fruitful career. The work done in developing the portfolio involves a lot of intellectual thinking, conceptualization, researching and giving your creative best. You can visit art galleries and events like ‘Infinite Possibilities', ‘Muse', ‘Young at Art' and ‘Artthrob' that are held in major cities across the country to learn about making portfolios and to get some inspiration for the same.