bkrzero
New Member
Hello
Im new to the forum, (my story, in brief) Ive been designing for lots of years – I went to art college for my BTEC National in 1993, followed by my HND Design Comms, and since have been mainly working in print. Ive had jobs at sign fitters / maker / printers designing all manner of artworks for all manner of applications, as well as the a local newspaper in the ad dept, working on spreads & ad layout, these types of things – with no web work, as it seemed to me & others I know, that a choice had to be made, and I followed where my experience was at the time.
My question, or request for advice (please) is can anyone advise what Ive missed? - as it feels like I have somehow, through taking that route & working predominantly in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark (when artwork & files came in on disc) etc.. if im honest I feel that I shied away from the net, although I have worked with web developers etc.. to create online content, although cant program anything. I mention this, as most job advertisments now seem to want a designer to be print fluent, whilst being a pro-blogger & multi language programmer.
Id love to get back upto speed with myself as I used to have so much drive & focus – or at least it felt that way - I still put designs & work together that I love but wondered if there was any specific software or ways of working that you can recommend to me please? (or links that you get lots out of, I need to re-apply my mindset, as Im currently working in the I.T side of a civil engineering firm, which is demanding but not in the way my artwork was/is)
Many thanks in advance
Im new to the forum, (my story, in brief) Ive been designing for lots of years – I went to art college for my BTEC National in 1993, followed by my HND Design Comms, and since have been mainly working in print. Ive had jobs at sign fitters / maker / printers designing all manner of artworks for all manner of applications, as well as the a local newspaper in the ad dept, working on spreads & ad layout, these types of things – with no web work, as it seemed to me & others I know, that a choice had to be made, and I followed where my experience was at the time.
My question, or request for advice (please) is can anyone advise what Ive missed? - as it feels like I have somehow, through taking that route & working predominantly in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark (when artwork & files came in on disc) etc.. if im honest I feel that I shied away from the net, although I have worked with web developers etc.. to create online content, although cant program anything. I mention this, as most job advertisments now seem to want a designer to be print fluent, whilst being a pro-blogger & multi language programmer.
Id love to get back upto speed with myself as I used to have so much drive & focus – or at least it felt that way - I still put designs & work together that I love but wondered if there was any specific software or ways of working that you can recommend to me please? (or links that you get lots out of, I need to re-apply my mindset, as Im currently working in the I.T side of a civil engineering firm, which is demanding but not in the way my artwork was/is)
Many thanks in advance