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This year is my last year as a graphic design student and I need to choose a topic for my final year project. The only restriction we have is that it either needs to be a cultural event or a commercial brand.

Any suggestions for a subject that would be unique and a great addition to my portfolio?

Honestly, I’m asking for fun. Someone might say something interesting tho. But don’t worry, I’m not relying on Reddit to pick my project haha

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Can anyone give me advice on where to start so I can learn how to do reels like this

What software could be used is CapCut a good call

Hi everyone, first time poster here. I'm a freelance graphic designer, and I recently started my journey on front end development so I could offer more services to my clients. I have some regular clients, but I'm looking for some new opportunities lately so I can have a regular income every month, so I would really appreciate any feedback you could give me on my portfolio. I have a little bit more of 10 years experience, and around 6 as a freelancer. Here's my portfolio www.alebeldesign.com thank you!

hi guys so i just got my first pc ,its a windows 7 ,a bit rusty but it gets the job done, i really want to get into logo qnd graphic designe but i have no idea where to start since i just learned how to even use my pc correctly.

i know there is a lot of great graphic designers who started just as confused as i am right now here.

so if anyone has any form of advice for me (youtube videos,apps and sites like canva ,how to start)i would really appreciate it . thank u

MacBook M1 Pro 14inch 16GB RAM 512 GB drive (750usd, 2 months of use) vs MacBook M2 Pro 16 inch 16 GB RAM 512 GB drive? (750 USD, 3 months of use) — I’m a graphic designer searching for a mobile laptop for light tasks, although I love to open XXX Google tabs and Figma+AI+PS (generative fill with AI) at once. I’d like to work with AE, too. And do some music production (a couple audio tracks, mostly ableton FX or Maschine library). — It doesn’t need to be strong, it should be sufficient enough. For more demanding tasks I have 2080ti/x3950 at home.

TL;DR - I got fired from my first job out of school. I didn’t see it coming. They gave me no warning or indication I was on the rocks and I’m livid. I need to update my portfolio. I don’t know what work is reasonable to ask for and what would generally be off limits.

I was overjoyed when I got the job. It was a few weeks before I finished school. I loved my job, and I liked my team. I worked for a group of companies in the food and restaurant industry.

But yesterday I went to the bathroom before our weekly meeting and came back to see everyone gone except for my manager and the other graphic designer. The designer sat at her desk and basically hid behind her screen while my manager informed me they were letting me go.

Holding myself back from completely losing it, I pressed my manager several times for cause.

I ”wasn’t a good fit for the team,” was all I got.

My lower lip twitched as I asked, ”is it because I was too slow? I thought I’d picked up the pace. I thought I was killing it. I thought I was really getting the hang of things.”

”No, it’s not that. We really valued your creativity, you’re just not a good fit.”

I should have seen it coming. Looking back the vibes had been all off. They hired the intern for a full time position —as much as I’d liked him on the team, I remember being surprised they took on a third designer. I ignored my gut, telling myself I was being overly sensitive and it was all in my head. It wasn’t.

I’ve been feeling all the things —rejection, anger, humiliation, and betrayal— I’m scared. I know it’s hard out there. I have so much to do. I hadn’t updated my portfolio before I got the job, and I have a year and a half’s worth of work to put in. Not to mention the culling of crap.

I also have virtually nothing. I have a few shitty quality drafts of animations, I have a pattern I made, and I have a mock-up of a packaging project. But that’s it. I did so much more than that.

I have to email them about a few things —one being a request for some of the work I did to include in my portfolio. This feels especially important because that was my first official design job out of school.

I don’t know what work would be reasonable to ask for, and what would be out of the question for a standard company.

I guess I’m lucky in the sense that I worked for a group of companies/franchise group, so a lot of the work I’ve done has been used in public. But, a lot of the work I’ve done is also not accessible anymore as features come and go, ads retire, or it’s a print for locations hours away.

What would you do?

So my 11 year old is really great at drawing,I know everyone says they kid is but my really is :D and now she wants to move to more professional level. Her birthday is in about 15 days and I would like to buy her everything she needs to start.

She already have a great gaming PC so I was thinking to get her somekind of graphic tablet and pen to connect to the PC? Or better ooption would be iPad Pro with some app and apple pencil?

Money is no issue here but again I don't think she needs top of the line for start graphics design.

Also, I work in IT and at my spare time I do a lot of game dev so she would eventually join me as a partner for graphics.

So any help and advice is great here, thank you all in advance.

https://forms.gle/hgSuvqb23tMqr1zC8 We are working on a project that focuses on facilitating some of the difficulties that designers face Share with us your experience as a designer through this short questionnaire that focuses on the difficulties that designers face in choosing colors, the time taken in the coloring process, and the repetition of having multiple copies of the design in different colors. Thank you very much

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue and I hope someone can help. I've uploaded my business card file to Vistaprint, and even though I've followed all the recommended settings, the file appears pixelated when uploaded. Here are the details (Affinity Designer):

- File format: PDF (exported as print-ready)

- DPI: 300 (high resolution)

- Color mode: CMYK

- Color profile: Coated FOGRA39 (embedded)

- Format: 85 x 55 mm (Business Card format)

The file looks perfect in Affinity Designer and other PDF viewers, but once it's uploaded to Vistaprint, it seems to lose quality and appears pixelated. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the platform itself or if I'm missing something.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any tips on what could be causing this? Could it be related to how Vistaprint renders files, or is there another setting I should adjust?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I do some in my community. Great organizations where their missions resonate with me. I love helping them out.

But, it can sometimes be really challenging because they expect me to drop all things (paying projects) and work on last minute stuff or have no concept of actual time some of this takes, though I try to educate and explain.

My question: when you get irritated by nonprofits who aren’t paying you, how do you tactfully lay down the law and help them understand constraints, without coming off like an asshole? These people are incredibly sweet and kind, just clueless. I feel bad for being annoyed lol. Any insight?

Hey guys, i was wondering if you had any ideas to show thoose concepts on a logo without the obvious chameleon ?

I’m the only creative/Adobe user in my org.

We used to have OneDrive so that we could all access files remotely. After we swapped IT companies, OneDrive started getting weird and not syncing properly, creating duplicates, and other issues. I used to like using it though because my files could stay in one place with no broken links. I work in different places, so remote access is important.

Their solution was to build a company server that was accessible via VPN. So I can still work directly on my files, but it takes syncing out of the equation and works better for most of our team.

When I open one of my files in an Adobe program though, I get slow slow reaction to anything. It takes 15 minutes to save a file or respond to anything. It feels like dial up. I have a super fast connection with Ethernet, so internet isn’t my issue.

How does your company approach remote work? What’s your solution? Should I beg for OneDrive back for just me? Do I have to keep going old school and saving local files that I copy over to our server when finished? And fix all the links? Please help. I’m dying and would love to present some solutions to IT.

Howdy,

I finished an HR interview and now moving forward with an interview with the design manager. They said it would be more technical questions, but I think the HR interview questions included some already, so what else can they ask? What can I expect from an interview with the design manager/senior designers? Here are the questions HR asked me already:

• tell me about yourself
• why [company]
• one time you worked in a team
• how do you prioritize
• how do you handle conflict
• how to introduce innovative ideas
• how do you handle designing a visual layout

Might be forgetting some, but help appreciated! This is for a junior position.

Hi! I'm seeing a growing number of companies asking for portfolios attachments in job applications. While I can curate specific pdfs for each of these jobs I feel it limited, and time consuming. So I'm wondering whether it would be a huge faux pas to have my attachment be a pdf with a link to my portfolio? I know its a bit cheeky, but is it too big a risk? Any creative hiring managers have any insight into this?

I've never seen this pop up window before. For some reason the last time I opened this file this pop up came up and after selecting OK the artboard and file is just completely blank. The preview shows what I had on there before but no matter what option I select on the pop-up, it's still a blank canvas. All that work, gone. I created this file pretty quick so I unfortunately hadn't made a backup file yet lol

But is this file done? Is there something I am missing? Any advice is helpful, thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/2i11bsjlgpzd1.png?width=354&format=png&auto=webp&s=81de36df6115bdf5922e80ced733be772c581c66

https://preview.redd.it/bia6m76mgpzd1.png?width=472&format=png&auto=webp&s=d42e5e3bae0b9ca3aaf1d6e912bfdc4450b31cd4

https://preview.redd.it/efkf98oogpzd1.png?width=1480&format=png&auto=webp&s=577d9330f6eea8a76c66d76aea93df0c6e6474db

Currently I've got:

2019 MB Pro

8 core i9

8GB GPU

32GB Memory

It's now showing slowed speeds as I've done more intensive work. Regularly I am working within Ai, Ps, Id, Figma, and After Effects at the same time. I have a feeling any new M chip will blow these specs out of the water, but I'm curious what I should prioritize. 32GB memory seems decent on paper, but am I not able to fully use that with only my 8 cores currently? Would higher cores give me significant improvement with the same memory? Just trying to gauge priority here and truly future proof myself. Willing to spend ~$4k, but if I can do it for less, by all means.

I've been storing my files on google drive but something that frustrates me is that I can't see a preview of the image or document when I'm browsing through my files, even if it's just a png or jpeg. Are there any cloud storage platforms that have a good navigation system?

I have a task where I need to turn it into vector graphics. Is it even possible? (and by that I mean keeping it good looking without millions of unnecesarry anchor points, with proper lines, etc)

https://preview.redd.it/e0irc53h3pzd1.png?width=1115&format=png&auto=webp&s=0aef1231b8a915dea09cd1f7e4c4836e91dd755e

My non-designer manager posted it in the team chat that has 3 other designers and 2 PMs and asked for thoughts. I was curious about reactions from other designers.

https://preview.redd.it/kri6gymooozd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6ca31326632720d5fe97905ee61a8c94625022c

https://preview.redd.it/qzuf2qmooozd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfc7ba889398a5bd54decca7f3080276f0cf5a79

https://preview.redd.it/ofxg6qmooozd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaa68704b39efd7db118c2abf200ee72958503e0

https://preview.redd.it/ljd5jqmooozd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb66876249aae010d817185e06aafbd2978f64ca

https://preview.redd.it/1vmo8qmooozd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96c5f0f97e5386a75ceb1e9d5b9d369cc262cbd3

https://preview.redd.it/a10u8hmpoozd1.jpg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c8385e652291d0634e83420fda46c50e86f57ab

https://preview.redd.it/2th17853mozd1.png?width=1393&format=png&auto=webp&s=c67112f1f8e5681dc06528c34e38a03fe084c5fa

Hi! I am newly a Graphic Design freelancer and I want to have a good selection of mockups for projects. I really like the Bendito aesthetic and think they really add value to projects.

https://benditomockup.com/shop/the-entire-store-new

I would like to purchase the entire store, it is $1,329.00 but up to 15 users are allowed. It could end up being only $75 each (with the 15% discount).

I know I can do the mockups myself, but I am finding it hard to find this type of photo aesthetic, and also sometimes mapping the logo/design onto an uneven surface is not easy imo.

I was wondering where I could find people who were interested in joining up and collectively buying this? I haven't figured out how. If you are interested or have any ideas please let me know!

Thank you!