Recent content by Rob Edwards

See what you started?!

I like your attitude and good luck, your Linkedin profile suggests you've more than enough ammo in the portfolio and bigger brand experience to make a go of it. For me I think I must be jaded by my recollections of endlessly pitching in the recession of the early 90's until by 1997 I let...

I understand where you're coming and I think that being a graphic designer can be and for me has been very rewarding but I don't think I could recommend it today.

I'd have to say that my own feelings run pretty much the same as Ian, Dave and the Peril except to say that I haven't been a designer professionally since 2003 and my own post rational view is rosier. If I have a regret at all, I think its that I couldn't find a way to make my old business...

I couldn't agree more. Would you or anyone here, recommend graphic design as a career choice or would a degree in something more transferable, such as management be better? Or a better question: does anyone regret becoming a designer?

You're right and everyone else is wrong. This game is now a case of the "last prostitute standing" and if we're all low rent prostitutes now then make sure the last one is you. And don't apologise, the free pitch argument has raged for decades and winning work is so hard now you've got to do...

To get back to Designersaur's original question, to what other career might a graphic designer of more than 20 years practice switch? To begin, what else are we qualified to do? How far do our less than academically rigorous Degrees go? Or am I being once again unkind and does someone believe...

It may have been tongue in cheek but its somehow comforting to know that I am not alone. I remember thinking to myself when I first got into a studio that there were no older designers anywhere. The odd creative director of course bit the ratio didn't seem to add up even then and I had a...

I'm not sure that's the point. The industry has definitely moved around us and you can learn all you like retrospectively, the technology natives are going to surpass you and they're younger and cheaper. It seems to me that studios used to be filled with visualisers, designers, artworkers...

I understand. I noticed in about 1990 that the mouse clickers were invading and by 1994 the studio as I had come to know it was gone and the career I loved was dead, drowned in a sea of wavy type, weighed down by the twin horrors of Freehand and Adobe. Whither the typography of my youth...

You're right to dispute the merits of the poster as a pice of design, I am similarly repulsed by it however design for designers and design for everyone else is not the same thing. My reason behind discussing why its bad is more to do with not falling into the trap of subjectivity as a means of...

Missed opportunity to analyse your response to a design If there's something wrong with the design of this poster then why is no one saying so? Clearly it is aimed at a particular community evidenced by its use of easy visual gimmickry but if it worked then by definition it was a successful...