Hi friends,
There are several various options you might take to launch your design career. Here I will mention 5 basic ways/options, from which you can choose the best-suited one for yourself:
1. Obtain a degree in design through formal design education.
One of the best benefits of attending an art school, in my opinion, is being surrounded by diligent classmates who have individual skills and passions. While you might expect competition to be rampant in an art school, you'd be relieved to learn that everyone is incredibly supportive of one another. It feels fantastic to be a member of this workroom, which is a secure and supportive atmosphere for potential student designers.
2. Self-taught methodology
You must have guessed already by the heading itself, and you might find it confusing, that how it may be possible, but I will provide the steps to follow for self-teaching yourself:
1) Learn to Observe - Start observing things around you, it could be your daily objects, roadside banners, automobile designs building architecture, Marketplace scenes and children playing at the street corner, Industrial layouts to the latest theme-based park.
2) Learn Graphic Design Theory - Yes this is important as you must know the basics for creating a strong foundation. Along with your creative instincts, it is also important to learn the fundamentals as well. It is an integral part of a design study to learn about the color schemes, typography, etc.
3) Enhance communication Skills: A good Designer has to be a good communicator as the entire process of designing will depend on how well you can communicate your ideas to your audience or end-users.
4) Learning to use a Tech-enabled designing approach: You should be well conversant with the latest technological upgrades that will optimize your designing efforts and efficiency. Latest and new software and apps are launched and are available, you have to learn to use them so as to provide you the necessary support to enhance your efficiency.
5) Your Specialization: This is the best part where you have to specify your design interest, by which I mean what you want to design; a product, a garment, a website, a mobile app, etc. Therefore, after you have decided, what type of designer you want to be, then you must follow that path of designing.
6) Portfolio Creation: While you are almost approaching the self-learning process, you must start preparing your portfolio. And by making a portfolio, it might not be always possible to incorporate real client projects, it could be your parallel side projects which you have worked on. Portfolio making with your own projects might include; T-shirt design, re-designing websites, sharing your unique idea for an existing App, designing a more work-efficient factory or manufacturing line layout, etc.
7. Get a Job or internship and Keep Learning: It is important that you keep learning, and once you have completed your fundamental learning, the only best possible way is by joining a company. There you will get practical exposure and learn hands-on.
3) Enrolling in a certified course or Bootcamp.
Bootcamps provide you the chance to take lessons in person, online, or in any combination during a brief period of time and get a taste of the career you want to pursue. Some of these boot camps provide scholarships, while others let you pay after you graduate and land a job. The boot camps also provide the greatest method to maximize your learning experience is to interact with highly skilled professionals in the field.
4) Expose yourself to opportunities:
Actively participate in numerous fairs or conventions or seminars or competitions organized by institutes or brands, where you will get a chance to showcase your skills and creativity. Even if it is through a reference, never say no to new opportunities, and also after the completion of the project, you must take the feedback or testimonials, so that it will help you land up future projects.
5) Creating new opportunities for yourself.
With the constant technological advancement and growing social media presence, you have a global platform to showcase your talent, skills, and diligence. So, online platforms are the best possible way to help yourself in creating new opportunities for yourself.
Hope this was insightful.
All the very best!
