Graphic Designers
Graphic Designers
Career outlook for
Graphic Designers
What's it like?
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
Working conditions
Tasks
- Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.
- Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and design concepts.
- Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.
Top Skills
- Active Listening.
- Speaking.
- Critical Thinking.
- Reading Comprehension.
- Active Learning.
- Social Perceptiveness.
- Operations Analysis.
- Judgment and Decision Making.
- Time Management.
- Writing, Monitoring.
- Coordination.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Persuasion.
- Negotiation.
- Service Orientation.
- Systems Analysis.
- Learning Strategies.
- Instructing.
- Systems Evaluation.