🔴 How To Get The Most Out Of Being An In-House Designer/Staff Position
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- As an in-house graphic designer do you worry about your next career move? Updating your portfolio? Are you still making connections? Optimize your job, don't become disconnected.
In this video, Chris Do gives you a checklist to make sure you maintain relationships and keep your social game on point.
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I'm an in house graphic designer, and I can say, this company has grown a lot since I start working on all the visual needs they have. But this is not a creative environment, I feel I'm missing that part of being in an agency or a design boutique with other like minded people, I'm surrounded by accountants. So I kind of feel I'm not growing professionally. Thanks Chris for this video, you gave me more ideas on how I can improve things while I'm in this environment.
Coming from the other side of the fence (agency life for most of my career), I recently made a switch to an "in-house" position for a TV Network. It's definitely more corporate but thankfully, there is a nice design culture here. Maybe that is something you can look into doing as well.
This was a very timely video. Thank you! Please make more videos for the in-house designer. Here are a few things I could think of that I would love for Futur to touch on.
- Designing for campaigns
- Presenting designs
- What it takes to make the move from Designer to Art Director and Creative Director
- Things to do on the side to improve personal branding and make more income
Thanks ERICA for asking Chris about the energy needed to invest in yourself once you get home from your day job!!!! Like Chris said WE relate to this and now about to hit the play button so Chris can break it down for us😍🤩😎
I'm a in-house designer right now for a start up company..i know there will be so many challenges and opportunity in this job..just im the right track and the help of those people in the futur i know im on the right track..thanks a lot guys! Keep inspiring the design community!
Thanks guys, I appreciate this one. As I find a lot of us IN-housers can get stuck and need to prepare.
AHHHH you guys are just KILLING it with the topics!
I’m a new designer working in house right now and I was really happy to see this episode. I’m super fortunate to work at a young company that is growing and has lots of needs, but I’ve found it’s been easy to be drawn into projects and tasks that take me away from designing. I’ve always been hungry and looking for opportunities, but I’ve started to realize that just being driven isn’t the same as having an actual plan for what I want to do. At previous non-design jobs I was always just taking anything and everything that came my way. I never actually thought about if it had anything to do with what i wanted to do. I feel like really thinking about where I want to end up and what I want get out of my in-house experience will help me to say no to opportunities that don’t align with my vision. I’m going to take some time to really try and figure out what that vision actually looks like.
42:00 I struggled with this for a while and "Design Is a Job" by Mike Monteiro put it in good perspective for me. It basically says that yes being a creative soul can be exhaustive but at the end of the day you're working for a business and you need to produce work. That means not letting your ego get in the way of being productive and if you're in a "creative slump" finding a way out. Super easy read and inspirational, I'm sure the creative community will relate (no plug intended)
Definitely Raw! I love it
@39min in Not all in-house designer have an art director. MANY time designers only have a boss (usually the owner or project manager) You guy have incredible advice but sometimes your point of views and advice comes from an arrogant and privileged position. I've had a few jobs where I was the only creative professional person on the payroll. I had to air my grievances, keep up the great work.
Really Helpful for me . I love this
Working as a Graphic Designer in a trading company on a contract basis (pretty much like In house)
OMG, Im gonna start a junior design job on the 7th.
Thanks for the videos Chris and the team!
you bet.
Gio comeback and let us know about your first day
Jamal Rippy literally just coming home from work. First day today. Really exhausting.
Gio when you get some rest man tell me about your first day. Details!
Hey mate, sorry for the late reply. My first week of being a junior designer was great. It was a breeze, it felt great when everyone was so impress on my design. and they are really shocked on how fast I was. Probably because they never had a graphic designer in house. Also I wish I learned some office mannersm I am really bad at small talks and greeting people. Something I didnt learn in design school or at home.
Always another very insightful video. :-) I noticed alot of the questions were more about "Why don't they...?" rather than "What can I do for them...?" That mindset is a concept that strongly needs to be taught in design institutions. This was a problem even with the instructors several years ago claiming of having "subpar students" and why I fell out of design altogether initially. Look at yourself first, grow, and eventually the rest will fall into place.
you are right.
About mutual benefit is very actual for any job, i agree to use inhouse resourses of company you work on. It is very common for many kinds of positions. Thnx
Preach 58:00!
the choppy sound kindda disturbing. but you guys still delivered great content! Thank you for remembering us (in house designers) and share your thoughts. Can you share something on designer doing moonlight job (or should I say side hustle?) about time management and such? Thank you so much! Can't grateful enough for the existence of this channel!
Melia Mandrasari sure. We can talk about side hustle.
im an inhouse designer
i watch the futur when im free lol so....paid to learn? haha
Great episode guys. I've been struggling with this a lot and you gave me some much desired answers. Keep it up ;)
Ah thought my net was laggy, so the audio was choppy
This video is really me....thanks again!!!
You should make a 'technical problem' screen. You know, just in case :D btw, really love to listen to your talk while working.
yeah. been thinking the same thing.
Just when I needed this. Thanks Chris!
Hey Chris & the gang, thanks for another enjoyable video. Do you think you could do a video that goes more in-depth on how designers can explain how their brief response solves a business problem? I fall foul of using design terminology and 'superior design' reasoning as you say and need to learn how to draw a logical narrative between my decision choices solving the client's obstacles. Something similar to the Pitch This video from this week!
yeah.
This was really good and helpful! Thank you!
Thank you.
I have a question about updating the portfolio. Is it allowed to show the projects that I have been created in-house on my personal website? Is it enough to mention the agency as the source? Or is there any other "rule" that I have to consider. Maybe you can give me some advice :-)
Chris looks so calm today xD
i'm always calm. even when i'm not.
I want to see Erica GIFs!
Konrad Daroch me too please
I post my GIFs on Twitter @m1spl4ced4n1mator and please don't hesitate to say "Hi"! :-D
Squirrel is back!!!!
never went away.
God, I love this channel. God bless Chris & the team, you guys & gals are fucking fantastic. Also, how come there's no link to the sustaining member page in the description?
I don't know if it's just me, but the sound feels really glitchy - once every few seconds it glitches a lot. Other UA-cam videos seem to work good though. Can it be that after finishing the stream, the uploading process ruined it?
5 seconds after my comment, Molly said that the audio is choppy. Why do my comments always come too early? Hehe
for me, being an in-house designer gives me discipline for making things done, I'm super ADD kind of designer, not sure if being a freelancer is my thing. Though being able to work anywhere anytime is my ultimate goal. Any advice?
I'm curious to Chris' music playlist...had he shared what he listens while working?
you can find it on spotify. just search for me.
Just want to throw this out 30:30 "Check into the contract you signed". Make sure theirs no clause about no moonlighting. I got burned by this.
i can't hear that, Nancy who?
Uhm.. I have pledged for sustaining member and I couldn't find my name in the list..Is there any problem with my payment?
koushik murali we will check.
we miss Jose
me too. his witty and funny answer
Where can I follow Erika's work?
Erica posts on Twitter @m1spl4ced4n1mator. They may not all be gold, but she keeps on striving to improve.
Hi Chris, i am a 18 years old in house designer; i create graphic design stuff (website,logo) for peoples who know me personally. i have good skills in PS,AI and always follow the process (questionnaire, thinking, sketching, design etc.) but my designs always getting rejected what should i do (except suicide), Waiting to hear from you Mr. Do.
I always like to include my people in the design process. I always show them about ten (good ideas) of rough sketches and tell them to pick 3 of their favorites. They give input. Out of those 3 I re sketch them (more detail, maybe color, add the input from the client) Show those to the client , get input, then I start designing in Ai. This way they can see which direction the design will go without finished products surprising them in a bad way.
ohh Great! Thanks @alannowwhereman for sharing your valuable process .
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Erica
Always disliked this arrogant dude