So you’ve just got your qualification. Congratulations! And smart thinking too, because, quite frankly, you’ve chosen a great profession to enter.
You could have studied, for example, photography or journalism. In a post-digital world, making money from either of these disciplines is increasingly difficult, even for seasoned professionals.
In contrast, there have never been more jobs available for graphic designers, motion designers, animators and illustrators. As Emma Barratt, head of design at Wolff Olins in London, puts it: “The demand for new talent and new ways of looking at things is rising across the industry.”
Ben Brears, strategic design director at Leeds studio Robot Food, agrees with Barratt. “For better or worse, we live in a hyper-connected, warp-speed world and everyone’s always looking for the new and the next,” he…