Aren't these fangled macs only good for graphic design and photoshop? That's what Billy-Bob and aunt May from down south keep tellin' me. :blink:

If you've got artwork, link it - or post it. We'd like to see it.


I've attached something i did during 1st year uni while i should have been doing homework. I know people here can do better than that!

All the graphic design we do at Uni doesn't translate well to a forum - 40 page print works, menu designs, logos...

I think I'll just watch what other people put up

thats pretty cool disko

Ok, I just do some pretty basic stuff.

Heres a logo and an affiliate link I did for a mate's forums -




And some basic sig work for the people on iPodlounge and a few from iOnMac

What I'm currently working on for my folio:
A picture of Andrea Corr, Done completely in vectors and layer styles. Except the hair, because it's unfinished

But still. Very proud of this one B)

When I get home I'll chuck some stuff online and edit it into this post.

here's part of a fun project I did at uni (circa 1999)



*edit: the most recent thing I've done here at work is a 64 page Mobility brochure for a multi-national computer manufacturer (sadly not Apple). Not sure I can post anything before it's released though :unsure:

Just out of curiousity are there any courses to teach graphics design?

Phwoar, and it's clean too

Nice job, so you did it all yourself?

JB

I'm using a refece photo I scanned from a magazine. But it's black and white so all the colours and everything are from looking at other photos and stuff like that.

I got more at http://forboy.deviantart.com

Yes.

Put simply, yes.

Almost every major University has a Graphic Design course, as does almost every TAFE and many Technical Colleges.

…so yes. There are bazillions of courses in Graphic Design.

Here's the finished version. Now to work on a new peice :blink:

Unfortunately, most TAFE's (in NSW anyway) don't offer graphic design.

They restructured the course last year amoungst other big changes, then they changed the name of the course to something rediculous.

Now there are very few colleges in Sydney that offer it, and the ones that do, the numbers are so low, that they are considering merging it with Web or Multimedia courses.

This is all crappy. Especially to me, as I had an offer to teach graphic design at the TAFE I attended for 2 years - doing a completely non-related subject. But the offer is gone, because of the above reasons.

It seems that the only way will be to go to a private College and pay stupid amounts of money. But the course is done in half the time it takes at TAFE. I am not sure how these courses operate, or if they are any good either.

Then there's the job hunt. There are people out there with extremely great talents, that get nowhere with regards to the graphic design industry.

Dana, a forum member and active IRCer on our channel has awsome talents, but no job. I'm a total n00b at it, but I can't even find a place that will take me for a week without pay to get a taste of the life.

Places that offer you garanteed work afterwards are a load of bull. Such places have an agreement with job places, or better (or worse) still, own a company that operates in such a way. They send you there, for an interview. If you are one of the good performers.

Then you find you are successful. You have a job for 3 months. on trial.

Times up, they let you go because you don't have that certain flair they are looking for.

Then you are back where you started, with an education, but no (3-5 years) experience that most ads ask for.

Not trying to make you feel bad. This is all from what I have seen and heard.

pipsqeek

My Uni offers it, and it's a reasonably good course; a little simplistic in first-year seeing as I was pretty fluent with the Adobe Suite and Quark, but they teach us design principles, which are useful.

The TAFE near me still has Graphic Design, I know three people in it, and it was one of the most difficult courses to get into last year.

Billy Blue School of the Graphic Arts, and that Computer Arts academy that they advertise in Graphic Design magazines and on TV are both very well known examples of design colleges, and there are many more.

Add to that John Howard's promise of more technical colleges, and the courses will only be EASIER to find; not harder.

The uni of Canberra still has a dedicated 4 year Graphic Design degree. Info here.