Not many Malaysian understand the importance of good design. As a designer, part of the job is to educate your client. Designers are everywhere but not many have good foundation.

It's a pretty tought, cut-throat world out there. Need something to set yourself apart and stand out above the rest

No. My friend graphic designer celery higher than engineer work in 3d (dirty, dangerous, demanding) conditions.

If graphic designing is dead.

Then engineering already rot

I have step out from Graphic design industry long ago.
I alreadi forseen the inkambing market going downhill
because the bosses only care for quantity but not quality.

Quality apa lanciau, go bak home sleep

I think the value in design in general is being appreciated and coming into picture and being accepted gradually by Malaysians. you can see how people tend to sponsor and organize more for design-related programmes, i.e competitions, art events etc.

it's not an easy task, you either go big or go home, a lot of good designer friends i know fly over to the south neighbouring country lol. i myself is a GD graduate and my career first started as Graphic Designer. I think this term is being loosely used nowadays since they granular the terms accordingly to their specific roles. They call it Visual Designer nowadays because I think the term GD is quite specific to printing and marketing-related materials. I am now in UI/UX role in a bank doing tiny freelance works on the side like socmed poster, website etc. It keeps the food on the table

I’m not sure on the other industry but in building industry that I’m working in, the developers normally with hire China graphic artist because they can give a very cheap price and can deliver work within a very short time. Most of this artist impressions are for marketing use, so it may always need to update. The local artists charge around 5k for one view but China can give as low as 3k.

This post has been edited by Princess_Alicia: May 24 2020, 09:12 PM

sometimes i feel bad about designers because customers want high quality and low price... well, guys, that doesn't work like that.
Nevertheless, there will always be people who understand the value of design and are ready to pay for a really good work.

Most of the boss think that designing like magic, they ask you to do something and they expect it will be completed within second and designer can read minds...after countless of redesigning they will accept it and said this is what i want, but they didnt tell you what they want in the first place

To paraphrase Mark Twain "The reports of graphic design's death were greatly exaggerated."

At least, within the animation industry, the current Covid-19 outbreak is creating more opportunities considering a lot of live-action film productions are shutting down. A lot of animators & FX crew are doing their work at home or remotely. The same should happen for graphic design within Malaysia.

Adversity has its advantages.

I agree with you that this lockdown might actually serve as a great opportunity for the creative industry.

It should also be a good time to do some side hustle such make T-shirts & sell merch online as well as building your own brand.

As for those stuck in dead-end jobs but have interests in learning design, a lot of online courses out there that can teach design, which you can find on Coursera or Shaw Academy which are offering for free (for now). Or if you do want legit diplomas or certs, there are online schools such CG Spectrum, Full Sails, Gnomon or Animation Mentor.

Nice info.

So it is better to equip yourselves with different skills instead of idling there doing nothing.

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