Graphic Design is nowaday one of the most overloaded careers in the Market, together with Journalism and Law. And according with the law of supply and demand is also one of the worst paid, to be exact: if I’m looking for a job as a Graphic Designer, some company’s can offer me the same salary of a young boy to work in Macdonald’s. However more and more people are continuing choose this career, without thinking in strategies of how to be an outstanding designer.

Anyone can have a graphic design software package like Adobe’s Creative Suite 3. It includes InDesign, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver:

Currently this career is overloaded for the clients, they see so many designer in the market, that because of this they think that they can pay anything to them. Sometimes not even thing in hire a real designer. Why should they do it? Anyone can work in Photoshop, In design, Dreamweaver or Illustrator or looking for (search) in the web about design and so on.
How can we change this outlook?

I think that, as designer we should focus basically is business management or marketing. Or for example if you’re going to build a web site do it smartly: using architecture information knowledge. Simple things that can make our work something good, a good quality product.

Not everything is that bad

They are not too many, but al least they are good organized. Here I have some of the web page that I could find about graphic design, it’s development and improvement in Chile:

• Diseño Emergente

This web page has the idea of a design network, all kind of people related with the graphic design world: From students, illustrators, web masters and so on. This is a very complete web site. You can also see works of the registered users, ranking and several comment (a very good feedback, from designer to designer).
Also news related with design events and seminary where you can go along Chile and some Latin-Americans countries as Argentina.

• Digilicious

This entertaining web site is basically made it of several posts with different subjects, from 3D, current events, interviews, illustrations and so on.

• Inconciente Colectivo

Is very similar to the other one, it works as a blog where several designer post, very professional and complete. Is continually updating. Something very special about it is that you can send your own news and playing as a journalist of this web.