Where are the designers?

Where are the designers?

I was introduced to this site by a good friend of mine who is also a designer (and a photographer) and got really hooked… but I had forgotten the reason why I joined this website. DESIGNERS! Specifically Graphic Designers… All these days, I have looked through so much work and I hardly seem to find any designs. 95% of the work that I have seen is photography. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE looking at photos but I’d like to see some designers’ work. I originally came here to get inspired by other people like myself who are looking to work with others et al but I really haven’t found many.

Let me also say what I really am. I am NOT a photographer! I have been a WEB DESIGNER since the time I found out what it was, erm.. at the age of 12 or something? I work as a professional web designer at a government run organisation Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and getting paid a lot more than people of my age. I got interested in Graphic Designs a couple of years ago and just got super obsessed with modernity and contemporary arts. I was into drawing and painting so I had done my basics at school and got a good grade but I was best at Computing so I pursued this as my major in college and I took a small course of Graphics alongside it. By the end of my first year, I got so fed up of computing that I totally didn’t want to do it any longer. This is where my Graphics came in. I was already designing for fun for years and years alongside my websites but this was when I started taking it all very seriously. I’m now in my last year of college (and getting ready to go to University, if you know the British system) and take this as my profession.

I don’t know why I just rambled on about all my life LOL..

Anyway, so since I didn’t find many designers here, I thought that the main interest would be photography as I have mostly seen only the photographs… and as you can see from my work, I started uploading my lame photographs, which are getting appreciated but I didn’t want them to take away the attention that my graphics should be taking!

So, RANT OVER!!

If you guys know any good (or even bad) designers that I can look up? The photographs that I look at do not inspire me to do anything other than search through my hard drive for good photos that might gain some interest of others.

Dale Harris is an awesome designer. You might also want to have a look over at Designwire , which is a design forum both Dale and I use regularly. There’s a few RB guys there, so maybe you can find the designers that way.

Ahhh looks awesome.. thanks Damien!

I can’t wait till Red Bubble separates designs and photos like clothes. :)

I think the journals get more replies than the forum topics so I’m gonna post this over there. :-)

This is what I been saying I wish that the art here could be seperated by format. photos, digital art, paintings and drawing, T-shirts

know its a headace but we the artest could go back throught are stuff and edit are art to reflect changes.

The problem is how do you categorise images on the border of the category? I do digital illustration.. is that drawing, or is it digital art? What about photomanipulation.. at what point does it stop being photography and become digital? And where does graphic design fit into it? They have seperated them into art and clothing because it’s a clear distinction caused by the printing method. As soon as you make it subjective you’re going to have problems.

oh, and fwiw i think that’s what the tags should be used for. I try to remember to tag my stuff with keywords like “vector” and “illustration”.. I mean we could bring in standards for tags if that would help, a set of tags used to describe the creation method like “photography”, “paint” etc.. and then you could apply multiple tags to your work if it was on the border. But yeah, separating them into categories wont work imo.

i think if they had all the tags up on a list. that way more you can readily go to digital design, illustration, vector, hand drawn photography, blah blah blah…the tags idea is really good.

Yup, I think they need to release a little list of tags that people SHOULD use to categorise their work.

Hey Faizan. I’m a multimedia design graduate and like graphic design too.
Some RB designers/artists I’ve found:

Narelle
Lucan Industries
beastman
Mike Hepburn
littlearty
phresha