Beginner graphic designers aren’t short on resources these days. All over the internet there are courses, tutorials, videos and more designed to help you get the most out of your software, understand the principles of design, buy the right gadgets, and so on. Indeed, plenty of them are found on this very website – one of the reasons we keep our tutorial on how to design a logo updated is that we know how many people are using it.
However, there is a lot more to a design career than the nuts and bolts – and this is something that many beginner graphic designers have to find out the hard way. So, to help out, we got in touch with pro designers and put this question to them: what’s the one thing you wish you’d known when you started? If you could briefly leap back through the mists of time and give one bit of advice to a fresh-faced beginner designer who happens to look an awful lot like you, what would it be?
