You're a Graphic Designer...

[labanbrown]

I was asked yet again about my job last night... "so you're a Graphic Designer - do you design graphics?"

The clue is in the title but actually perhaps we need to be re-named? After all we brand and name Clients and their products all of the time and yet our generic title is not quite right?

Any ideas?

[Amonza]

I just tell people that I am in charge of the Colouring-in department at work.

[eugenetyson]

Arts and Crafts Corner - that's what I have.

[artgem1984]

I know someone who's a graphic designer with official job title of 'visualiser'

[BJMRGTIVR6]

button pusher.

isn't that what we do?

[GrumpyKate]

Most of my clients are graphic designers. . . they can use Word and Publisher and supply me with jpgs to enlarge to A1. . . Today I shall be a brain surgeon.

[Osiris]

Originally Posted by BJMRGTIVR6

button pusher.

isn't that what we do?

That's the word on the street.

[The_Black_Knight]

I'm in such a weird sub-niche of graphic design that I can't even explain to non-designers what it is that I do. I'm in over-the-counter pharmaceutical packaging production. If I tell people I work in packaging, they think I created the dielines or the concepts for the artwork. I try to explain that I don't come up with the designs (other agencies to that) or the structure (the packaging engineers do that), I just do the production. I try to tell them what production means, but I usually get a lot of blank stares. That, and I work for an agency in New York City, but I work on-site exclusively for the pharmaceutical client in New Jersey. It all gets a bit confusing.

I might as well tell people I work in cryonic crystallic metallurgy. I'd probably get less questions about what I do. If they inquire further, I could just reply with, "It's technical."

Maybe I should just say, "I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!"

[pirate]

Q: So, what do you do?
Me: I work for a printer...
Q: What do you do there?
Me: I work with the computers...
Q: You going to your Mom's for the holidays?
Me: ...

[eugenetyson]

I love being a graphic designer. Free stuff is great. I once got 3 large trays of ice cream when I was doing an ice cream brochure a few years ago. The client was in and was asking for us to have it ready for Thursday. I said "We'll get it done if you drop some free ice cream in for us", jokingly. The next day he delivered loads of ice cream. I then had to get it finished by Thursday. But at least I had ice cream.

And nobody comes near me when I'm in Arts and Crafts corner, they know I have a knife and I'm not afraid to use it.