I’ve been a designer for about six years now professionally, and having worked in so many different types of companies and freelanced for different types of clients, I have noticed something as of late
Some graphic design jobs seem to be more creative / fun than others….
By this I mean at one point of my career I worked within a fashion house and a lot of our work started from very cool and varied places of inspiration and research that everyone from the intern all the way to the creative directors would be involved in and we would get time carved out of our day to go wild and create visuals and push our creativity.
And then on the other hand I’ve worked as a Graphic Designer designing emails, social media posts, paid ads, leaflets and web banners for an insurance company - I felt like a part of a factory machine moving things along a conveyor belt, no real brain power was required, just “put the logo here, website address there, QR code there and then export”
I know it’s subjective, but I’ve noticed all the “popular / cool” places never have roles coming up - for example Wieden + Kennedy, Spotify, Depop, Google, most major record labels, Pentagram, Dazed, I-D, Hypebeast - I think you get the drift of the type of Agency or Company I’m alluding to - and most designers who have experience working in this universe seem to strike it lucky whenever they leave one role into the next, their CVs/Folios are all full of big names.
Thoughts ?