Career in Graphic Design.

Which Is a better career Graphic design or Web Design?

• I am going to start college and I was going to do graphic design but Im not much of a good drawer. does it mostly involve drawing? I was also wondering which career makes more. I would like to hear from someone who is a graphic or web designer or knows someone who is. THANKS :)

• Answer:

  Nearly all graphic design these days is done digitally. Same is true of web. Web design **really does** require a knowledge of the technical restrictions of web development. In my line of work we often get crap from print designers who think their work is golden because it's an "online brochure." "Don't trouble me with the details, I'm the designer, you work out the technical stuff." The end result is you get a web site that other web developer scoff at because it so abhorrently goes against the principles of good web development. So to be a really **good** web designer, you need to understand both, how print media is different than web media. To answer the question, unless you're lucky enough to get a foot in a huge agency, as a graphic designer you'll wind up doing a lot of production work with very little reward. In the print industry, the work is consistent; in advertising, it's brutal and volatile - you may be the company big dog one day and out of a job the next. Web design is a little more fluid, but the same thing applies: unless you get a foot in a big agency, you'll be doing a lot of designs for someone else for nowhere near as much as you'd expect. However, I will say this: web development will show a much longer lifespan than graphic design in print. I feel like GD's days, at least in print media, are numbered.