Hello Unnati Singh

In the contemporary, fiercely competitive corporate environment, graphic design is crucial. To generate effective marketing materials, businesses require the assistance of graphic designers. An effective graphic design strategy is now necessary to compete.

It is a safe decision to hire a graphic designer or seek assistance from expert organisations to develop a strategy because they will have the knowledge to meet your requirements.

Thanks

Hi Fathima,

It's great to see that you want to learn and try out graphic designing field,
before you directly jump right into jobs , I would recommend you to :

1. Enroll for Free or paid graphic designer courses :
You can be graphic designer in 9th but you need to learn graphic designing skills before you start applying for the jobs.
In order to get job opportunity it would be better if you take certified courses

• Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)
• Learn Adobe Photoshop from Scratch.
• Free Graphic Design Courses (Skillshare).
• Adobe CC Maserclass: Photoshop, Illustrator, XD & InDesign (Udemy).

2. Build up your portfolio:

• Create a portfolio and introduce yourself and your passion for graphic    designing
• show your clients your graphic designing skills
• Display your past graphic designing works

3. Apply for internships.

• Apply for graphic designing internships and gain real experience of working together in a team and get trained to work in real life designing field.
• This will help you to build up and improve your portfolio and resume . And you will have more chances to get hired as the company or client himself will be  assured that you knowhow to handle things as you had already worked for other companies and gained experiences
  

I want to wish you  good luck  and remind you that you still have time to figure out your career ,
It's okay to fail in it than not trying it !
So I hope you try out graphic designing and experience something new!

Hi Aspirant,

1)First learn the basic principles on design, composition, color and typography.

2)You can become a graphic designer by enrolling in college or university course

You could take a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree in a design related subject like:

1.Graphic design

2.Art and design

3.Communication design

4 Illustration

3)Learn the graphic design tools

Here are some softwares you can learn:

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Lightroom, Canva, Snapseed, etc.

4)Skills required for graphic designer:

Communication,creativity,problem solving, technical ability, time management etc...

5)Do internships or small projects inorder get experience

You can refer this link for more information -

https://www.careers360.com/careers/graphic-designer

Hope this helps!

All the best

Hello,

Graphic designer as a career is a good option considering the growth of digital industry. In career as graphic designer, individuals create visual concepts using computer-aided design software or by hand.

Several institutes and colleges conduct admissions exams for admission in courses they offer for graphic designing. Many institutions also offer admissions that are based on a 10 + 2 passing mark.

The qualifying criteria differs from university to university in terms of marks and the enrolment methodology.

Here are few entrance examinations you have to appear for admission in colleges-

• All India Entrance Examination for Design (AIEED)

• Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED)

• Symbiosis Entrance Exam for Design (SEED)

• NID Design Aptitude Test (NID DAT)

• IICD Exam

• Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED)

You will need to have a Bachelor's degree even for entry level graphic designer post. So you can choose to complete your Bachelor of Arts degree, Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Graphic Design.

After that you can complete Masters in Graphic deisgn.

There are numerous colleges that offer diploma and certification in Graphic Designing courses. We have mentioned below top colleges for a career as a Graphic Designer.

• National I nstitute of Design Ahmedabad

• MIT Institute of Design, Pune

• Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

• International School of Design, Pune

• World University of Design, Sonipat

For more information, kindly check out the link given below-

https://www.careers360.com/careers/graphic-designer

I hope you find the answer helpful

Thank you.

Hello Pinky,

You can opt any of certificate courses, diploma courses or Bachelors degree courses in Graphic Designing. All of the colleges mentioned below provide a merit based entry system. The top colleges offering courses in Graphic Designing in Chennai are

ICAT design and media college (Bachelors degree in Graphic Designing) - merit based entry

Loyola college, Chennai (Diploma)

Madras Christian college (Certification course)

Vels institute of science, technology and advanced studies (Graduate diploma)

Institute of design ( IOD) (Graduate diploma)

DOT School of design (B.des)

You can find further information about the course in the link provided below

https://design.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-graphic-designing-colleges-in-chennai

Hope this helps and Good luck