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.
PS: Posted as a forum topic but journals seem to be much more active! :-/
Elvina-Mae Farkas, 9 months ago
actually yeah…where are all the designers? well i know im a photographer, but i enjoy the work of designers…
maybe they’ll appear if we ask nicely… =P
kathleen
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9 months ago
i’m here
designer’s unit ohhhh year…
Ok there is what some people might refer to as photography but if you saw the oringinal ‘snaps’ you would agree that the post work is all graphic design…
I have vector too and check out my infinite future kaos entry
layout, scanning, photomanip and vector… can you get more graphic design than that…
hee heee… we are a special breed! there are more designer in the tshirt realm… if you are interested!
thanks for the chance to blatantly promote myself. :-)
kathleen
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9 months ago
that line should say… designers unite ohhhh yeah! der
Faizan Qureshi
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9 months ago
Hahahaha.. thanks! I am pretty sure that I have you in my watchlist.. I’m clearing my watchlist tomorrow to get rid of everyone who doesn’t inspire me anymore LOL..
I found a few designers earlier, finally.. weee….
See I was planning on doing a little “Stitched” type magazine for designers but didn’t find many haha… but yeah, I saw the Tees.. they’re pretty cool too!
Sarah Moore, 9 months ago
Hi Faizan,
You should check out these RBers they have amazing designs!
Mario Sanchez Nevado
Fracturedphotos
Flamejob
As well as my site of course – I can’t leave a photo alone – it mus be manipulated in PS! I can’t help myself!
dendoo, 9 months ago
what up faizan, well you knew i had to comment. the redbubble team said they’re introducing groups soon…lets hope the group feature encourages more designers to crawl out of their hiding spots.
honestly designers lets not hide anymore!!!!
cause photography, as much as i love it, is a getting a little…yawn for me.
Faizan Qureshi
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9 months ago
Yawn is the word I was looking for LOL. I LOVE photographs… but as a designer, I feel creepy when it’s a plain photo. It has to be accompanied hahahaa..
Sarah, thanks.. I will check those out!
kseriphyn
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9 months ago
I’m a bookcover designer does that count? You know how I created my site and bummed out miserably XD. I’m doing another one now that needs some bells and whistles.
Danny
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9 months ago
All the designers tend to hang out in the Clothing section
Ben Vernel, 9 months ago
I’m not sure if I’m a designer… but I’m not a photographer, that’s for sure.
ayarti, 9 months ago
i like to think of myself as a designer :O. i study graphic design, or communication design as they like to call it. i’m in my third year, and i’m working full time in a design studio as part of my studies this year. most the stuff on my page would be classed more as graphic art rather than design i guess, and its all quite old stuff. head over to deviant art, you’ll find more designers on that site because its community is considerably bigger than redbubble’s.
I agree with Danny, in that most designers are probably in the clothing section. This is certainly true for me, because i’ve always been able to display my prints and design through deviant art for public scrutiny, but until redbubble i had no where to put up shirt designs, and its something i’ve always wanted to do without paying an arm and a leg to get them printed. So yeah, most my effort is focused on shirt designs for redbubble.
good luck with your search!
Incognita, 9 months ago
Hey Faizen—refreshing to find someone with so much self-confidence.
You might like to look up http://www.redbubble.com/people/johnb
He’s one of the most talented and lest fashion-driven graphic designers and illustrators I know (and as a sometime graphic design lecturer tho’ now teaching videogame design and curator, I’ve seen a shitload of graphic design.)
But sure go to deviant if you want to wade through 17billion bad manga drawings…. there is the odd pearl there.
Daniel Rarela, 8 months ago
http://www.redbubble.com/people/tomo
her work is absolutely, insanely unreal and I love it!!!
Faizan Qureshi
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8 months ago
Hehehe thanks.. I already have her on my watchlist. :-D