Designer

This word was included in the Russian language several decades ago. In English, designer - designer, creator of original sketches, images, models, patterns, etc. In English, this word came from the Latin designere (lat.) - show, outline, do.

The designer, as a rule, is a specialist with art education. Among the Moscow universities offering art education, the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Moscow State University of Art and Industry are the most famous. Stroganov. Currently the most frequently required designers working in the field of printing, and interior designers. Less common are orders for the selection of specialists in the design of clothing, shoes, fabrics. Specialists of this level are trained, for example, in the Moscow State Textile Academy. Kosygin. Orders for the selection of specialists in the design of technical products are quite rare.

Printing design includes the design of the actual printing (books, magazines, brochures), advertising (business cards, postcards, booklets) and packaging products. It can be said that specialists of two types come to the polygraphic design. The first - specialists with art and printing education, it is precisely to artistic developments. Specialists of this kind are usually engaged in the development of product style. They make illustrations, which are then scanned and entered into the PC. The second - graduates of technical universities, well versed in computer technology. As a rule, it is computer scientists who master, first of all, such a new field of activity as web - design (creation and design of Internet pages). It should be noted that the printing works are done on Macintosh computer systems (MAC), and not on PCs, which most users are accustomed to working with. There is a certain "gentleman's" set of graphics programs that a PC design specialist should own: Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator. If the designer, as often happens, is also engaged in layout, he needs knowledge of QuarkXPress or PageMaker. For many, the study of computer graphics begins with the editor Coral Draw, but now its value is rarely required.

Before the crisis, a salary of $ 500 was considered to be sufficiently low for an artist-designer; qualified specialists in this field received $ 800– $ 1,000. After the crisis, the minimum wage for a full-time PC designer is about 6,000 rubles. Such a decrease, however, can be explained not only by the crisis, but also by the glut of the market with similar specialists.