Careers in Digital Media
and My Future!
Created by: Aracely Zamudio
Instructor: Natalia Fofanova
University of Houston
Photo credit to Gezelle
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Digital Designer
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Education
Job Opportunities
Design Principles
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Inspiration
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Who am I?
I am...
•Aracely Zamudio
•A student at the
University of Houston
•A hopeful, future,
digital designer!
What am I about?
• I attend the University of Houston, and hope to
soon major in digital media, which will
hopefully combine my love of art with the
innovations of today’s technology
• I love art. Even when I was a child, I cannot
remember a time I wasn’t drawing. If not on
paper, then on walls (which my parents were
never too happy about).
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•What is the best inspiration for anything?
•Yes! That’s right! Music!
•This is a lovely tune by TV on the Radio called
“You”
•This video is here to fulfill the video requirement of
this project, but also because I love it, and I do
listen to it to inspire myself while working.
What’s this about?
In the following slides I will give you some
information about the road to becoming a
digital designer.
This is what I hope to someday hope to be ,
because I believe this career will allow me to
combine my love of art with today’s amazing
technology to make stunning designs.
What is a digital designer?
A digital designer is someone who mixes their
creativity with technical skills to create designs using
various medias.
They make work in various areas, from making flyers
to making video games, or even advertisement. A
designer will create different types of designs and
layouts.
Education
• Many 4-year institutions offer bachelors in Digital
Media
– Bachelor in Fine Arts is also acceptable
– Masters in Fine Arts is great to accompany a bachelor
in Digital Media
• Fine arts schools offer associates in design
– These are good enough for entry level positions
• Designers must be knowledgeable in different
technologies from HTML to Photoshop in order to
make designs for different situations.
Job opportunities
The world of digital design is vast with many
different job opportunities. Here are just a few of
the areas designers get into
• Advertisement
• Graphic design
• Video game design
• Animation
• Web design
A designer can work in an office as well as be
freelance.
Design Principles
Any designer will at least begin knowing the basic design
principles because you use these to make designs.
There are 6 basic principles of design
1. Proximity
2. Contrast
3. Emphasis
4. Alignment
5. Repetition
6. Unity
A good design will have all of these.
Here are examples of
the principles of design
This is contrast.
A few of my inspirations
credits
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presentation. Hope you learned
some information about graphic
design!