A few questions to ask

[GraphicMindz49]

Hello, I've been a graphic designer for 2 yrs now and would like to ask a few questions on designing posters. Appreciate any feedback and have a good weekend.

1. What computer software you use to create designs?


2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?



3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job? Yes No I work for myself


4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?



5. Age? Under 18 18-24 25-34 35 and above



6. Gender? Male Female


7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs? Yes No



8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?



9. What Image file format you prefer?

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[Sketcher]

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

1. What computer software you use to create designs?

A combination of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?

I design whatever my clients need me to design. I don't think minimizing your services to just posters would be very lucrative.

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job? Yes No I work for myself

Yes, I freelance a little outside of my full time job.

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

Still learning. Graphic design is non stop learning.

5. Age? Under 18 18-24 25-34 35 and above

25-34

6. Gender? Male Female

Male

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs? Yes No

People buy and collect old, classic posters.

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?

It all depends on the style you want for the poster and how it'll be used. There's no one answer for this.

9. What Image file format you prefer?

How was it designed? What printing process will be used? It all depends.

[PrintDriver]

1. What computer software you use to create designs?

Indesign/Illustrator/photoshop. While you can design a poster in Illustrator, I'd still use InDesign as the layout program of choice, as these days, InDesign gives your output vendor far better color control tools.

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?
Posters are just part of design. If you mean by lucrative to sell as fine art, then you are somewhat leaving the realm of design. A poster by it's nature should convey a message. Fine art, not necessarily so.

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job? Yes No I work for myself
Not too often. Occasionally. I get enough of the design world at work. Outside work, I have other interests.

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

5 or 10 years closer to retirement. It's something you wish would hurry up and get here, but at the same time, you don't want to get any older.

5. Age? Under 18 18-24 25-34 35 and above

And Above

6. Gender? Male Female

Male

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs? Yes No
Not a yes/no. People buy posters that mean something to them. Not just pretty pictures. Classics, genres, eras.

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?
As Sketch said, no one answer. If you are looking for artistic collector quality, you have to go for high quality acid free stocks and specific printing methods. If you are just looking for something going on the bulletin board for a week, not so much.

9. What Image file format you prefer?
File format is up to the print vendor. Always know what they want before you design. As a wide format printer, I want your layered indesign or Illustrator file. That way I can be sure to hit all your specified colors (assuming you used a matching system) and I can get your images profiled correctly. If you send me a flat photoshop file or PDF, I can print that too, just not with as much control. Your mileage may vary if you are going to a litho press or digital press where you may want to work with someone who can supply job options. Always ask the printer.

[Buda]

1. What computer software you use to create designs?
I mostly use Indesign for layout, but also use Illustrator for logos and illustrations and Photoshop for image editing and bitmap images.

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?
Sure. Define lucrative.

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job?
Yes, I have a registered freelance business and work afterhours and in the weekends.

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
Freelancing full time.

5. Age?
25-34

6. Gender?
Female

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs?
Yes. But there's many more people that are happy to collect digital files.

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?
Depends on the print process.

9. What Image file format you prefer?
For print, I prefer a print ready pdf. I work in prepress

[KitchWitch]

1. What computer software you use to create designs?
Adobe Creative Suite

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?
Probably not

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job? Yes No I work for myself
No

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
A multi-million dollar lottery winner.

5. Age? Under 18 18-24 25-34 35 and above
Above

6. Gender? Male Female
Female

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs? Yes No
Sure

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?
No idea

9. What Image file format you prefer?
Whatever the printer prefers.

[<b>]

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

Hello, I've been a graphic designer for 2 yrs now and would like to ask a few questions on designing posters. Appreciate any feedback and have a good weekend.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

1. What computer software you use to create designs?

Same as everyone else: Mostly Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop. I also build websites, so I'll throw BBEdit in there as well. Right at this moment, though, I'm using FontLab on a project, so really, I guess, I use a bunch of different software programs — it just depends. Technically, however, I don't use any software to create designs — I do that in my head, then use various tools, like software, to build it.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?

I probably would if designing posters seemed like a lucrative way to make money. There are precious few who earn their livings designing posters, and one of this isn't me.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job?

I work full-time and do after-hours freelance work for my own clients.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

Getting closer to retirement, but still doing what I'm doing now. I actually don't ever see myself retiring — just being more picky about what work I take on.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

5. Age? Under 18, 18-24, 25-34, 35 and above

And above

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

6. Gender? Male, Female

Male

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs?

Still? I suppose some people collect posters, but I doubt there are many of them that do so beyond just buying a poster that they like. If you're intending to earn a living designing posters aimed at poster collectors, well good luck with that niche, but t seems like an unlikely career path.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?

Like any other printed work, it depends on the job. The reason there's such a huge selection of paper stock is because each is the right paper for something.

Originally Posted by GraphicMindz49

9. What Image file format you prefer?

I don't prefer any image file format over any other. Like paper, the best format is the format that's best for the job at hand.

[PanToshi]

1. What computer software you use to create designs?
Indesign/Illustrator/photoshop. Generally, InDesign is the industries layout program of choice. In the package design industry, Illustrator is the layout program of choice.

2. Would you use your talents to design posters as a lucrative way to supplement your income?
Posters are just one format. Restricting to one minute aspect of design would not be a lucrative avenue to pursue.

3. Do you like to sell your services part-time to make some money outside your job? Yes No I work for myself
I work for myself and there is nothing part-time about it.

4. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
On my tropical island.

5. Age? Under 18 18-24 25-34 35 and above
And Above

6. Gender?
yes

7. Do you believe people still buy and collect posters with spectacular designs? Yes No
Maybe some do. But as others have said, they buy posters IF the content means something to them, or vintage posters they think they will resell for pots of money.

8. What is the best paper to make high quality posters?
It depends.

9. What Image file format you prefer?
It depends.