Art use to be fun for me to get away from the stress and design Clg has just sucked the fun out of It I am a 3rd yr design students my jury is in 10 days have I done anything hell naaaa !!! I have literally 0 motivation I literally open my laptop and stare at it I have slept properly for days coz obviously I haven’t done any work but that doesn’t stop me to not do it at this point I am like what the point AI is gonna do it anyway all the Intership and remote jobs i have applied to told me the same thing I literally have 0 Frnds my love life doesn’t even exists i just watch reels and sleep that’s my loop I am mentally so exhausted I don’t want even talk to my family coz they just don’t get it so kid if u are thinking to join a Clg specifically a design one think a million times ☺️🙏🏻

ok so I don’t even know how to explain this but here goes.

I’m a brand designer. That’s my job, that’s what pays the bills. But I’m curious. Like really curious. And my curiosity is literally what got me where I am right now lol.

Started with “let me just try this one thing” and now I’ve built:

• The System: a habit app for Android. You waste screen time or skip your tasks, it penalizes you. And you gotta send photo proof that you actually did the thing, no cheating
• Drift: basically a perfect bridge between your Android phone and Windows PC
  • transfer files
  • sync keyboard and clipboard
  • sync your gallery so you can watch stuff from your phone on your PC and vice versa
  • sync notifications
  • auto pauses whatever’s playing when you get a call
• Figma automations: hooked my design workflow up with AI so all the boring repetitive stuff just gets done
• Weave automation: I can do a week worth of carousels in a day. Like a week of content in a matter of hours, not kidding

And no, it’s not AI doing everything. I’m still the human in the loop. I decide what goes out, I check everything, I fix what looks off. AI just makes me crazy fast.

Tbh I’m having way more fun with this than regular design rn. Every week there’s something new to build and I’m hooked.

But here’s my problem:

• no idea who actually needs this stuff
• no idea where to find those people
• don’t even know what to call what I do lol

I know these are high paying skills. I just don’t know how to get in front of the right people.

So if you’ve been here or you know who hires for this kind of thing, pls help a guy out. Where do I even start?

Tengo un trabajo de oficina de Lunes a viernes, sin embargo los fines de semana no hago nada y todas las noches de lunes a viernes también los tengo libre, en vez de perder tiempo sin producir nada me preguntaba si existen trabajos del rubro como diseño gráfico, digital, 3D o similar donde no tengas que postular o competir con otros si no solo cumplir con un pedido disponible y si cumples los requerimientos pues te pagan y ya, se entiende? Eso existe?

I’ve been in the industry for awhile now and now seeing a shift from product centric — marketing centric. Before the product was the central idea and marketing worked around that. Now I’m seeing a shift where the central idea is in marketing and a product will follow. I understand the importance of both but What do we think? What’s more important?

Hello everyone,

My daughter is a college junior in Florida. Her college life has been miserable in the last 3 months since she started her major. She came home exhausted every day and finally opened up to me about what had happened. I know how big her dream is, how passionate she is about being a designer, and how hard she's worked to make it happen, so I really need your help and advice.

She transferred from another college in Virginia (as a Junior) to Florida because of my new job, and she was doing extremely well there.

The Florida college didn't accept all of her credit for drawing classes, so she had to retake them, which added 1 more year. The college also requires a passing portfolio review to start her major there. In her first semester, she applied for the portfolio review (using her projects from her last college) but did not pass. She emailed the review committee multiple times for feedback, but no one answered her.

After 1 year, she applied again with projects from her drawing classes and other classes from the college, and they let her pass.

In the first 3 months of her major, her projects were always considered too clean, too neat, and too corporate and commercial, and the professors were very harsh when grading her work. Then she found out that a group of students always got full grades, and they had volunteered in the department. What doesn't make sense to her is that their work isn't outstanding, which violates many criteria in the project's rubric. She then went to the professor to ask about her work so she could better understand and improve, but the professor said all she needed to do was follow the rubric and the professor's 10-word comment.

The classes became toxic for her because those students keep spamming the class's group chat with how great they are, why they get good grades, and why others don't.

I know my daughter's style. She is very nitpicky about details, and everything must be in balance with the Swiss Grid system, with a good combination of colors. She always treats her work as professionally as possible so she can put it in her portfolio.

For her first article design project, she chose a medical article and did extensive research on which colors to use and which image to include. The professor didn't like it and said it made the article feel negative (even though the content itself is negative). The professor wanted to amplify the feeling and told her which style to use, as well as to do more Photoshop, like combining multiple images to create a new one. She followed the guidance, showed the professor again, and got approval. On the project's final discussion day, a student from "that" group said it would be better if she changed that style a little, and the professor agreed, so she had to redo much of the article. She told me that she would be fine if the comment was about a technical issue or something, but a comment about "style" from another student is not acceptable to her. She felt that those students act like the professor's assistants in class and behave as if they are higher.

She is waiting for grades on her current project, and she said she wouldn't know what to do if her grades are lower than the others again. She said the others already got full credit even though their works violate not only the rubric but also the project rules.

Sorry for the long post, and thank you so much for reading until this point.

It is so sad to see my bright girl dragging her feet like that, and I don't really know how to help her.

I have some options:

- She can teach herself with online courses, then build up her portfolio. I know it would be hard to get a job at a big corporation without a BA.

- She can transfer to another college, like ASU, which I think is more her style.

I would love to hear your advice about her situation. Again, thank you so much.

Additional info: her grade is importance because they wont let her do another portfolio preview by end of semester if her grade is B. If that happens, she would need to transfer or change major. The college has 300 students sophomore then down to 140 in junior and only 15-20 graduate.

Give me some ideas in this hand band to design it to next level

I took this photograph of a tree and experimented with turning it into a minimalist, cinematic movie poster called The Shadows.

I wanted to keep the composition simple, use natural light and shadows, and create a mysterious atmosphere without adding too many elements.

I'm exploring my own visual style as a designer, so I'd genuinely appreciate some honest feedback.

Does it feel like an actual movie poster, or is there something you'd change?

Constructive criticism is welcome! :)

Maybe, just maybe, 'make it pop' actually meant creating those little fucking little splash lines on literally every fucking design.

Hey guys,

I’m a senior studying Visual Communication Design and honestly hitting a bit of a wall with my graduation capstone. My prof shot down my original idea, basically telling me: "Find an app or interface we are all forced to use every day, do a deep dive into why its UX/UI is manipulative or terrible, and redesign the whole thing."

Here’s my angle: I actually know how to code which pretty much no one else in my design cohort can do. I don’t want to just present a static figma prototype, I want to build and code a fully working app to stand out.

I also really want to avoid those cliché, overdone student concepts like "yet another climate change or recycling app". I don't want to design a preachy lifestyle guide telling people "do this, don't do that." My goal is to build a tool that genuinely removes friction and makes everyday life easier. Since I'm pitching this to a jury, maybe tackling an issue involving children, parents, or accessibility could be a strategic win, but the core has to be real human value.

any ideas ?