Lately, I find more people understand what it means to be a graphic designer. Nowadays it's even trendy to say you're an art director, an animation designer, or a lettering artist. I've also noticed that you can find a graphic designer written into some movie or sitcom story-line because the general public now has an idea of what we do. This is great because when I go to family functions or networking events I don't have to go into a deep explanation about what a logo is and say, "you know, like the Nike symbol," and they blankly say, "Oh, I see," when they really don't.
It's so funny because although my parents support me in every way, I know they still don't understand what I do. And poor mom, she has a really hard time explaining my career of choice to our family members in Brazil. They have no idea what graphic design entails, so she just tells them I draw on the computer. Hilarious. {{Read more.}}
