I've discovered something. Designers are now programmers, by agreement of just about everybody except myself. Listings for graphic artists are now all for User Interface Developers, Flash Developers, Actionscript developers... I'm sure there are quite a number of skilled visual creative professionals who also happen to be skilled programmers, but in my experience, the visualizers usually cringe at excessive use of code, and the code crunchers would prefer not to be pixel-jockeys. But during my career I have seen the job of "designer" absorb several other careers: image scanner, typesetter, lithographer (truly though, how many designers even now really understand how or why to trap their graphics?), air brush retouch artist . . . I miss the collaboration with all these skilled pros. As a new artist at an ad agency, just a few months out of school, I was able to spend a lot of time with one of the local litho shop owners, and I learned more from him than I did in any of my college classes. Now the guy sells real estate. Sad, this elimination of the team, but apparently it was inevitable. But I cannot for the life of me see how a designer is now also supposed to be a programmer. There is some helpful software, yeah... but I simply can't see it happening. Perhaps the programmers will now all be expected to be designers... aye me. I've already seen the results of THAT idea. No, no, it takes two completely different types of thinkers to really do both of those jobs well. Unfortunately that's not what the ole bottom line wants. The bottom line wants to cross right through one paycheck or the other. I have no solution for that.
...OK... let's see.
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Oh, yeah. That's what my BFA is all about.
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Yeah, I just applied for a job in a Christian ministry last week that wants that all-in-one package. I've got the technology part down, and I've got the passion for theology that's required, and I can hold my own on really, really, really low-budget, low-end design, but "design" is about usability to me first -- not the same thing "design" is to you. They just don't have the money to hire two people.... bummer.
Jody, you nailed it! You're seeing the same exact thing from the other side of the coin.
Too true! Too true! I cancelled my membership in the Society for Technical Communication because "tech writers" are now almost all software documenters. Last week, I "edited" 300 pages of text in 3 days. In order to finish on time, I had to grit my teeth and not rewrite sentences that used "architect", "result", and "impact" as verbs. I just made sure everything was in Arial 10 point, and that the line breaks didn't mess up the auto-numbering scheme. For this, my employer searched for six months to find a Ph.D.-level science writer?
@Nancy.... OUCH!!! I felt that one from here!!
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