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Graphic design is my passion.
"Graphic Design is My Passion is an expression often used by visual artists or graphic design firms in self-advertisement." - Know Your Meme
The phrase is often used to sarcastically highlight how clients and managers treat graphic design work as if they, too, are proficient in the skill. -
In this way, inany job, it's about managing expectations of both internal parties and external clients. But in graphic design, it's happening every step of the way.
Graphic design is one of those thankless careers where you do it because you love it, but all the while you're being bombarded by expectations from managers who don't have a creative bone in their body and clients who really don't have any idea what they're really asking, both of them assuming they have some knowledge of the work at hand
See, the thing with graphic design is that everyone thinks that they're a graphic designer to some level because they used Photoshop that one time in high school. ("Graphic design is my passion.")
Similar to other professions where everyone has some degree of experience doing the thing every day, writing, for example, people just don't really seem to get what an actual professional level of understanding of the skill entails. Overestimating their own proficiency in it until they're faced with the brutal reality of their own decisions.
That's basically what was happening here with this graphic design client who began prohibiting this graphic designer from working with other colors in their designs for their terrible car ads, until all they were left with was blue.
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A graphic designer gestures with their hands while working on a project with a client. Other material being considered is visible on the tabletop.
The image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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"You said you wanted an ad with only one color. You got it buddy!"
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