What job oppertunities' exist?

As a graphic designer, you have a varied range of jobs available, due to your type of work. As a graphic designer, you can adapt to the jobs of illustrators, fine arts and other professions, as graphic design links with them. This all depends however on your preferred aspect of graphic design; you may prefer creating 3D woodwork art and thus become working for theatres in helping to create stages, you may enjoy animation and then become working for companies such as Coca Cola and Sky for promotional advertisements on TV, you may prefer creating digital artwork and thus gain a job working for a games company creating concept artwork/models, or creating illustrations/logos for companies.

The best thing about being a graphic designer is that you are not tied down into one specific area of jobs, there are many different jobs which are graphic design related, as the meaning of the word can mean most things which are art related. This means that once you have found an aspect that you enjoy, if you then try to get work for it and it doesn't become all that successful, you will then be able to move onto something else which is similar and not find it too much of a change.

A lot of the work may start out as freelance, to gain fame and word of mouth from others. And then as you progress and get a name known for yourself, you will possibly move into making your own business with people who you got to know from networking at events and shows, or follow up a job offer from a company who you are interested in.

The most common jobs within Graphic design are; Web design, Logo design, Clothing printing, Animation, Printwork (magazines, newspapers), Photography, Packaging. A good place to search for jobs and also to look for similar artists/graphic designers who are currently freelancers is at Creative Pool. You can view the freelancers' work and contact them, or view the businesses wanting a graphic designer and contact them to inquire about their job offer. It's a nice start to the graphic design industry and to see what kind of opportunities are about there.

http://www.creativepool.co.uk