1. Graphic Designer

2. Table of contents The Job, Graphic Designer Aspect Outlook
Yearly Salary
Required skills/Licensing
5. Educational Requirement
6. Senior Colleges (Transfer research)
Opportunities for Advancement
Job Opportunities
Professional Associations
Bibliography

4. The job, graphic designer
. Artist designing variety products, prints
. Visualizing their creation in their ways
. Offering visual messages
. Very sophisticated = plentiful ideas
. Having open eyes & thoughts
The Job
. Work under defined finance
. Being able to visualize their ideas and concepts in their ways – Creative!
. Create designs – Determine size – Presentation – Review & Final layout - Improvements & Discuss – Produce
. Communication skill for discuss about their designs with executives
. Be able to adjust to fast trend changing
. High competition between designers - One easily gives up working as a graphic designer.
. Material design, Product design, Web design, Packaging design, Poster design…. Many kinds of Jobs

5. Aspect Outlook Positive
As much as industries are developed, companies need great designers to survive in the high competition in the world. Design has a magic that makes their products and companies be more attractive by their customers. Whether their products are sold out or not depends on the their products’ designs; therefore, the future of graphic designers is very positive.

7. Yearly salary of the career
The median expected salary for a typical Graphic Design Specialist in the United States is $42,629.
25% people of whole graphic designers have yearly income about $38,268, and 75% of them have yearly income about $49,391.

8. Educational Requirement
An associate degree for technical support
A bachelor degree for entry level
Or 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area (It depends on portfolios)

9. Opportunities for Advancement
Promotional opportunities; offer something unique about your service, and clients will remember you; they will also be prepared to pay more for a specialized service, so you can charge a bigger fee.
- Specialize in fast turnaround
- Ability to work across media (Leaflet design, Animated presentation design, 3D design, web design)
- Fast design service 24/7
- Quick response - Accuracy: a free proof-reading service before artwork handover
- Specialize in a particular style

10. Job Opportunities Google, yahoo, msn, apple
Walt Disney Consumer Products
Arts galleries
Fashion designers’ brands, such as Channel, Gucci, Etro, Jean-Paul Gautier, Liz Claiborne
Bloomingdale’s
ABC

11. Professional Associations
American institute of graphic arts
Design Jobs
International Council of Graphic Design Associations [ICOGRADA]
Association of Professional Design Firms APDF
Dallas Society of Visual Communication
The Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SEGD)
Creative Hot List
Communication Arts

12. Bibliography www.careerplanner.com www.prinstonreview.com