There are two main types of designer certifications:
1. Adobe Graphic Designer Certificate
The fee is 840 yuan, and it is an American Adobe exam. This exam is organized and conducted by an examination unit authorized by Adobe in China. Passing this exam can obtain the Adobe (China) certified graphic designer certificate issued by the company. The examination cycle is once a month.
2. On October 15, 2005, the People’s Republic of China officially stipulated three professional reference professional qualification certificates: graphic designer (assistant designer), web designer (assistant designer) ), advertising planner (assistant planner).
Among them: Adobe and Corel authorized training centers, with Adobe’s graphic design software (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Acrobat), which has the world’s largest market share, and Corel’s CorelDRAW as the core The content ensures that every student can become an excellent computer graphic designer. Adobe China Certified Designer (ACCD) refers to a certificate issued by Adobe to those who pass the Adobe Graphic Design Product Software Certification Examination. As an "Adobe China Certified Designer", you will be awarded a formal certification by Adobe. You can enjoy the special treatment given by Adobe, authorizing users to use the ACCD title and Adobe certification mark in promotional materials, and publish personal information on Adobe and Corel related web pages. As an Adobe-certified designer, you can use the Adobe project logo on promotional materials to show your colleagues, customers, and bosses that Adobe is officially certified, thereby giving you more opportunities - employment, reuse, promotion, and demonstrating your extraordinary talents. .
Three types of software should be mastered:
1. Proficient in operating oreldraw or Illustrator
2. Image and photo processing software: Photoshop
3 , Large-scale text typesetting software: Pagemaker Founder Typesetting
Graphic Occupation Executive Yuan Labor Committee Vocational Training Bureau Wednesday, August 31, 1994 The job of a graphic designer is to combine visual elements such as text, photos, or patterns. Appropriate image processing and layout arrangement, and perform art design and layout on paper media. The graphic design industry is one of the thirteen categories in the cultural and creative industry development plan of the "Challenge 2008: National Development Key Plan", which hopes to drive the output value of my country's design service industry from NT$22 billion in 2002 to NT$34 billion in 2007. Yuan, the number of employees has grown from the current 11,000 to 16,000. In the design service industry, graphic design is the basis of all design and is also the most widely used category in the design industry. Graphic designers use the combination and arrangement of various visual elements to express their design concepts and images on flat materials in two-dimensional space. Graphic designers, as generally recognized, apply appropriate image processing and layout arrangements to visual elements such as text, photos or patterns, and display them on paper media such as newspapers, magazines, books, posters, flyers, etc., that is, on paper. Carry out art design and layout in media.
Working environment
Graphic designer is a static job, so most of the working time is spent in the office or studio, and the main working configuration is the computer.
The main work of graphic designers is art design and layout. Art design mainly combines the limitations of working conditions and creativity to create a new layout style (format) or composition. It conveys the designer's subjective ideas; layout arrangement is based on the created layout style or composition, placing text on the page and reaching a certain number of pages or composition in order to complete the finished product.
The work contents of art design and layout are similar, and they are highly related. They are often performed by the same graphic designer. However, because of the general perception that art design work is more complex than layout layout, Creativity, so once the work is broken down, the salary of art design will be higher than that of layout, and most novices will start by learning layout and then advance to art design.
Time and salary
Graphic designers generally vary according to the nature of their work unit, working hours and salary:
●Graphic designers in newspapers:
Graphic designers working in newspapers generally have fixed working hours. Graphic designers for daily newspapers work from afternoon to 11 or 2 pm, while for evening newspapers, they work from morning to afternoon. Graphic designers must quickly arrange the layouts they are responsible for with editors within two to two hours after the deadline. Therefore, the pressure of working hours is concentrated and the pace is tight. Generally, they must have considerable experience to closely cooperate with the printing time. Requirements are not suitable for those who are new to the industry.
Most newspapers hire graphic designers with certain experience. The general monthly salary is about 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, and the more experienced ones are about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. However, in recent years, newspapers have paid more and more attention to Due to the visual richness of layout, the salary of some newspaper graphic designers can be as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan.
●Graphic designers for magazines or publishing houses:
The nature of the work of graphic designers for magazines and publishing companies is very similar. Because they are all for a fixed period, rather than publishing every day, the work pressure is not like that of a newspaper office, and most of them work in a team work manner to disperse the centralized editing pressure after the deadline and before publication. In order to save personnel costs, more and more magazines and publishers outsource some non-time-sensitive pages or specific book layouts to outside studios for execution.
Graphic designers for magazines and publishing houses have very fixed working hours, except that they may stay up all night before publication. Also because a fixed layout style must be used, in addition to the designers who do art creation or cover, sometimes fresh people are used to perform layout layout in order to reduce costs. The salary of graphic designers in magazines and publishing industries is slightly lower than that of newspapers, with a general monthly salary of about NT$20,000 to NT$40,000.
●Graphic designers in advertising or design companies:
Most of the graphic designers in advertising or design companies make finished products such as advertisements, posters or flyers, and they also organize a lot of books. . Working hours are fixed, but it is inevitable to stay up all night before handing in the manuscript and closing the case. Generally speaking, those who perform advertising or poster design are mostly experienced and creative art designers, and their salaries are also higher, about NT$50,000 to NT$60,000.
●Self-established studio:
Since graphic design is a creative job with a strong personal style, many graphic designers leave the organization after accumulating a certain amount of experience. Establish a personal studio to take on cases. In addition, in order to meet the current customized market demand for customers, more and more advertising, publishing or design companies outsource the work to graphic designers with different design styles after receiving the case. It is best to set up a self-owned studio with stable customers and cases in order to maintain a certain income.
Qualifications
Graphic designers mostly graduate from advertising design, art, applied art, visual communication, industrial design, commercial design and other related design departments. In the past
Most freshmen from design majors used the master-apprentice system when they entered design work. They started as assistants at the lowest level with senior seniors and slowly learned and explored for several years. But now the relevant design departments are paying equal attention to theory and practice in teaching. Freshers have already gained some practical experience in school.
It will be easier to get started when applying for jobs in the future. Therefore, graphic designers need to study on an apprenticeship basis. Ways no longer prevail.
The most important thing for a graphic designer is to have a keen sense of beauty. Therefore, even if you do not have a design-related academic background, as long as you are interested, you can also participate in graphic design training courses offered by the government or private shops to ponder your computer skills. If you have the ability to design, image processing, typesetting and other related software technologies, you still have the opportunity to enter this industry.
Education and training
Graphic design work is a highly subjective creative work. Most graphic designers pursue further studies and improve their design capabilities through continuous self-education. For example, you should usually pay more attention to the design techniques of various posters, promotional materials, magazines, books, etc. and collect them, or browse the works of other designers online to inspire your own design inspiration.
Graphic designers must have a keen sense of beauty, but they must also have certain literacy in writing. Therefore, Hushi can read extensively and increase his knowledge field and text sensitivity. In addition, most graphic designers will also use online groups to exchange opinions. In recent years, as the government has actively promoted the design service industry, it has also assisted some designers' associations to organize domestic and foreign tours, exchange seminars, advanced courses and other activities. These are all channels for participating in improving one's own work skills and expanding communication within the circle. .
Looking to the future
The design service industry is a key service industry in my country. It is currently included in the "Key National Development Plan". The government has also developed a "Design Service Industry Development Program" and Action Plan", proposing the main measures of "promoting Taiwanese style design", hoping to help domestic industries use design to develop brands, promote the export of design services, expand market demand, and promote Taiwan's rich and diverse cultural characteristics. It seems that the design service industry has a good future, but in fact, graphic designers face greater market development pressure than other design industries. In recent years, due to the accessibility of information technology and design, ordinary people can easily use computer software to design by themselves. Therefore, graphic designers are faced with the problem of price-cutting competition, and their profit margins have shrunk greatly. Therefore, in addition to striving to improve your creative design capabilities, you also need to spend time managing customer relationships and providing better services in order to maintain your competitive advantage.
The real rise of modern graphic design in China began in the 1980s, accompanied by the establishment and improvement of the art design discipline. The design craze of using modern graphic design concepts and methods to explore the Chinese cultural genes carried by Chinese characters began in the past decade. With the maturity and development of Chinese graphic design, Chinese graphic designers are paying more attention to the exploration of Chinese traditional culture. Learners and researchers of Chinese graphic design have been absorbing the nutrients of Chinese characters and various art forms, consciously or unconsciously (consciously or unconsciously), and have achieved some results.
In contemporary Japanese graphic design, the in-depth study and utilization of Chinese characters and Chinese calligraphy can be said to be earlier than ours, but Japanese designers mainly look for usable graphic designs from the perspective of the formal beauty of Chinese characters and calligraphy. element. We can see a large number of works in the form of Chinese characters or Japanese kana, using Chinese calligraphy expressions and adding modern plane composition concepts. From this, we feel the charm of Chinese culture and the unique influence of Chinese characters on the world’s graphic design field. On the basis of traditional Chinese culture, contemporary Chinese designers try to express Chinese graphic arts represented by Chinese characters and Chinese calligraphy from different perspectives, using Chinese characters and Chinese calligraphy as graphic design elements to express concepts. Compared with foreign designers, Chinese designers seem to be more willing to explore some design elements and inspiration from the deep meaning of Chinese culture contained in Chinese characters to express pure local cultural characteristics.
Chinese graphic designers who grew up in the culture of Chinese characters have grasped the "advantageous genes in design wisdom and ability" of the Chinese people. They understand Chinese culture to a degree that foreign designers cannot. Possessed. Chinese characters, which do not break away from the "image" and "shape" of all things in the world, but also simplify and generalize the representation of objects, provide a powerful space for creativity and creation. Chinese designers have grasped the meaning of Chinese characters. This feature brings Chinese characters as a theme or language medium to an unprecedented level in graphic design works. We can feel the influence of Chinese characters in world culture from the logo of the 2008 Olympic Games.
From modern Chinese graphic visual communication education, we can also see that training courses around Chinese characters are receiving more and more attention, such as Chinese character font design, graphic creative changes of Chinese characters, etc.
However, while studying the modeling, we should also pay enough attention to and understand the culture of Chinese characters.
Chinese characters are just a form of design images. It is difficult to achieve "perfect" expression of inner experiences such as attitudes and emotions. In graphic design, it is just a language and means. What is truly valuable is the gene it carries "Chinese people's ability to creatively summarize and express the image of things in a two-dimensional space." Studying the relationship between Chinese characters and graphic design is to decipher the cultural gene we carry. This gene is the wisdom and power of design that is always in the deepest part of our emotions and thoughts. This kind of wisdom and power has exerted a subtle influence on and helped us through Chinese characters and other art forms of Chinese characters from the beginning to the present, and has never stopped. Paying attention to the creativity and shape-creating abilities of prehistoric Chinese humans in two-dimensional space, as well as the "visual communication activities in two-dimensional space" of ancient Chinese people, are necessary means to develop Chinese graphic design.
As Chinese, we still have a lot to do with Chinese characters and Chinese graphic design. We should integrate the Chinese people's "creative" and "creative" thinking that Chinese characters and Chinese graphic arts carry and embody into contemporary graphic vision. It is the ideal and responsibility of Chinese designers to convey the design language, thereby generating a new kind of creativity, and to show the everlasting artistic charm of Chinese civilization in the field of graphic design