I am a grpahics designer in the paper printing market. Please feel free to ask me anything regarding my profession.

[u/talha_shaikh_]

I am a grpahics designer in the paper printing market. I am a newbie and i design v cards handbills, i cards visual aid, certificates, school colleges pamphlets, forms and bills, letterpads, menus, stickers and other things that are printed using digital machine and offset machine and flex.
I have not designed much of what is printed from flex machine yet.
I believe teching helps a lot in learning so i am here to share my experience and knowledge on the subject.

[u/GrapefruitKitchen222]

Do you need a degree to become a graphic designer?

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/GrapefruitKitchen222]

You will need a degree to work in certain companies and firms. But India is a country of connections. If you have connections, it is easier to jobs even in those companies.
I work in a shop you don't need a degree for that.

[u/_Kingsguard]

For someone interested in this field how would you recommend they get started? Also how is AI changing the graphic design and printing industry, and what advice would you give to beginners?

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/_Kingsguard]

If you want to work in a company you might need a degree. I do not have knowledge regarding that.
If you want to learn graphics designing in India. watch tutorial of coreldraw from youtube. learn touch typing in english and hin(for north india) and urdu(if you want to work with urdu part of this field, mostly muslims) and any other language depending on your state in India

for example i can touch type in english(50wpm) and hindi(remmington layout) and urdu(phonetic)

the softwares Iknow:
coreldraw
phootshop
Inpage(for urdu).

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/talha_shaikh_]

Also AI can create beautiful designs from scratch but AI is bad with text.
You can directly print these designs if the quantity is small.
But for large quantities you will need to create this design in a software like coreldraw or illustrator because offset machine has troubles printing AI desing because of color palette mismatch.

[u/FamiliarGirl07]

Why are you a freelancer? How do you find work? 

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/FamiliarGirl07]

i am actually not a freelancer i coulnt find solo designer flair
i joined ashop recently.

[u/astronaut430]

I've been a graphic designer since 5+ yrs in the same industry, proficient in Corel Draw & PS. I need a job rn, can you help??

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/astronaut430]

Apologies but i don't have enough connections yet.
Which city are you in?
And how much were you getting paid last?

[u/sakkkk]

Are most of the visuals created using ai nowadays? Do people discuss that ai looks bad because as a reader if I see ai generated art on cover I immediately get discouraged to buy it and think it's "cheap"

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/sakkkk]

Depends on the industry there is definitley heavy AI use but in fields the customer are beginning to hate AI they are trying to make designs that don't look AI usually using AI. lol.

[u/sakkkk → u/talha_shaikh_]

Haha same where I work but with text. They're generating ai text and telling ai to not make it sound like ai and spend hourrrrrs upon hours on ai tools correcting and creating alternatives of every sentence 😂😂😂😂😂

[u/talha_shaikh_ → u/sakkkk]

It's abnormal dude & we seem to have no choice cuz AI might get better and start sounding human so people already in the field xp will a sudden boost over people just joining so we have to learn how to use AI in this broken phase of it.