Is web design a good job for someone who loves art??

Question

I am in love with art, and have been before the womb. Yet, for my career I would need to get a higher paying salary, considering the position the economic status is at in the United States at this time. One job that has in numerous occassions been suggested is getting a job in Web Design. I'm an artistic person, and I may actually get an associates degree in Web Design and then get a bachelors degree in Graphic Design, or vise versa. Would that be the smartest choice? Also, I would more-so like it if when I work in Graphic Design, is to work more specifically in Magazines or Books.

Answer 1

Yes i think it is! I love art.

Web Design involves alot of artistic things - Designing the graphics, layout, colours.. etc etc.

Magazines and books are great ways to show your creativity and if you love art, they would be great for you too!

Answer 2

Yep! I love art, painting, drawing, putting everything nicely together, and now I'm taking a web design course. I'm creating my own web page without the need of any help. You can put your own taste using web design.

Answer 3

Learn to write code as well.

Answer 4

If you love art, the "design" part of web design is right up your alley. The term "Web Design" really means "Website Development", which usually consists of a designer, a programmer, and possibly a developer or two. If you like art, and are good at graphic designs, you would make a good designer. If you can make the graphics, a good developer or programmer will be able to cut up those graphics into a fully functional website.

You don't need to know code to make it as a designer at a web design company. Also, bonus points here, web designers usually pay more than graphic designers do, even if you are only doing simple graphical layouts for both jobs. Then, if you dig deeper in web design, developers get paid more than designers, and programmers will usually be the highest-paid.

If you really want to work on magazines or books, maybe you should get your bachelor's in Graphic Design, and your minor in Web Design or Journalism/Media Arts. If that is your ultimate goal, then you shouldn't be minoring in web design "just because". Find something suited toward what you want to do and go with that.

Answer 5

While web designers need to have a good eye, what they do is not artistic in that sense.  They're more concerned with setting up pages that provide visitors with easy navigation, with client-side programming, with easy updating on the server side.  It's a lot of programming, not a lot of visual creativity.  In fact, most of your web designers get their graphic art from other sources.

You could work toward a career in advertising art.  There, you'd learn to create logos, ad campaigns (visual side; others do the word-smithing), even stationery.  Most of the work nowadays is done digitally--you get to be a primo Photoshop operator.  The career is pretty difficult at first--you have to work long, long hours and put up with a lot of persnickety clients--but it sounds like the best of all worlds based on your description of yourself.

One other idea--why not get career counseling?  A qualified counselor could test you and perhaps come up with even better options.  Visit the student services office of a nearby community college and ask them for career counseling--they usually offer it for free to community (that's you!).  And they can provide you with state and federal data about demand and starting income projections for any career that seems to match you.