What is Your Motive To be Graphic Designer?

People say that the best business is the world is something that you can do passionately, why? It is because with passion, you can give your heart, the whole heart, to make something and something which is made whole-heartedly will show the best result than making something based on the salary or commercial. By passion, many people want to grab their dream as designer in any kind of major, including graphic designer.

However, since we live in the real world where money also can take over anything, it can be a good reason for being a graphic designer, so is it wrong? The answer is nothing’s wrong when it comes to the choice of life because it is a prerogative right. No we will discuss working as graphic designer in the both pint of view, work for money and work for love?


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In the Name of the Passion

From the early stage, we will start from the heart first. Just like what we said before, working with heart or passion can mean everything such as the reward for the existence. When working, a designer must face a term where the designer cannot think about anything and start finding the inspiration. Passion can make them see the special value in anyone’s masterpiece without being a copycat because usually this kind of designer wants to emphasize the characteristic inside of him and her even though the masterpiece is the result of being inspired by other. The aim to gain the self ability makes the designers who work with passion will keep on going on their own way by accentuating the creativity on their masterpiece and do not really care about how to get a big fat of money from their masterpiece.

Next, designers who work from their heart never go far from his path. Maybe in the future, there are so many clients who ask various things based on their needs. It can influence the style of the designer’s masterpiece, but it can be seen that the result will not be too different from the other masterpiece. This kind of designer will take every advice into account, but they still can appreciate what is on themselves. They can state professionally about the difference between the designer and the client.

Commercial Motivation

For designers who work for profit, there will be no me, because the masterpiece is about “us”. They have their identity but sometimes it drowns in the middle of customer needs. They do not focus on the creativity or how to gain their masterpiece to be better than before, but how to satisfy the costumer by taking all projects. The good side is they can get much money in a certain period, but the bad side is they can improve the project especially in the one that they do not like. The customers are also hard to find the uniqueness or the characteristic from the designer as his or her specialty.

Another problem which comes to the designer who works for commercial side only is over loaded job. Since they take every job, they will receive the job without considering the whether they can make it or not, and this will be a new burden to them.