What was your first design to go to press?

[Jason Fraker]

I'm talking about the first one that made you keep staring at it with a goofy look on your face that none of your Non-Designer friends or family could understand. To me, it was like looking at my first Mac when it came out of the box.

For me, the very first one was a poster for a play at my college. It was my first 'commissioned' piece, and nobody had ever heard of the play. I did the whole thing in photoshop because I hadn't learned any layout programs yet. It was an 11X17 poster color copied onto glossy paper, and splattered all over the school's town, in every store window it seemed. The weird thing was, I used my face on the poster,so I kept seeing me everywhere I went for lunch or class, etc...

There were other milestones, like the first full-color job I did all by myself, the first full color catalog, etc, but I will always remember the poster as the first goofy grin inducing job.

You guys? We already know Debz's, but she may want to retell the story here!

-Jason

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[JaCkinbOx]

I started off assisting a local Avon representative with graphic design. (I work with her regularly.) I later discovered a local art gallery and decided to make a truckload of digital abstracts and got prints made. (Several of them are still on display, I plan to put more in before long.) Sometime after that, I got involved with Michael Badnarik's (the Libertarian Presidential candidate for '04 -- third largest political party in the U.S.) campaign website as a graphic designer to assist the webteam. And I've been doing freelance work since then.

Nothing too exciting, but it's enjoyable work.

[Silence04]

for me it was either i magazine ad or a package design, either way, i do remember thinknig they both sucked..lol

the first piece of work i got printed that i acually was proud to see at first was a tri-fold brochure/catalog. it was on a card stock with a matte finish and spot UV coating.

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[D-Frag]

mine was an ad i did promoting an upcoming concert when I got my first job at Clear Channel out of college. It got printed in the AZ republic, and I remember telling all my family and friends to cut it out, lol

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[morea]

a 12 page program done for our local Shakespeare troupe. Nice cover, cast and crew lists, board of directors, etc, and then about 8 pages of business cards from their sponsors. And darned if I didn't have to redraw EVERY business card in Illy. I was so proud of that darned thing.

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[coconut]

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[Kool]

My first was a 4 page heavy equipment catalog. The inside was your basic boring catalog layout but I had free reign on the cover. This was the first time I ever used PhotoShop in a creative manner and the results were pretty hideous as you can imagine. It had about a million images, each one treated with every effect and filter available. The customer loved it though, thought it looked 'cutting edge' LOL. It tends to make my eyes bleed when I look at it now but I was damned proud of it at the time. /emoticons/cool.gif

I love children but I don't think I could eat a whole one.

[Jeff92]

First thing I ever did was a logo for a local Landscaping program that was going to go onto vehicles, t-shirts, letterheads and all that kind of fun stuff. Crappy logo, but it was what the guy wanted. It was a weird feeling seeing it on the back of a truck on day out on the road. Followed it for a while.
In terms of published, was a pizza places Specials sheet. Too much stuff on it, and off course everything had to be big, Big BIG! That was fun going to the printers and seeing 40 000 of these damn things in some big boxes...

[Drorain]

a set of canvas bags for the new england aquarium. kinda nice they were, now I get alot of stuff put to press here, but I never see the finals really

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[defjoe]

mine was this thing.. it was round... had a hole in the middle... I think it was called a wheel.

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[DivineDesign]

awwww i don't have mine yet http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/weep.gif
Soon i will...soon.....graduation is approachinghttp://www.graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/freaked.gif

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[Magnus]

I think mine was a 2 sided, 3.5 X 8.5 flyer for a local Heritage Festival..2 colour. At least that I can recall....I try and forget most of what goes on in this shit hole.

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[Lonepine]

I feel old. Can't remember what the first design I did was. It was too many moons ago.