So you think you are a Creative Person (Tell about you)

| October 21, 2007 | 16 Comments

The creative person could be a designer, coder or a project manager, in this article, I am addressing the graphic designers, web designers, animations and photographers who enjoy the pain of the new idea and controlled by it.

Through my working experience as a graphic and web designer, I saw that the real creative person is driven with his or here creative nature. The love of the new ideas, the desire to be part of it drives him/her to choose him/her career.

Some creative persons left their main study to work in the design field, some traveled away from home looking for a better opportunity in the field of graphic and design. I see the skill of creativity is trying to show off itself and force the person to do what it says.

My people asked me, I need to be a graphic designer, and I reply that the best graphic designer is born with you not the made one. Learn is very important to improve your skill, but the seeds of must be located inside you first.

I am trying to get feeds from you about your experience and how you reached your creative position as a designer, computer artist, animator or a photographer. Tell me how did you strive in your life with you creative idea to make it show up. Comments are enabled for this post, so feel free to write your story in the comment field.

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Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansy

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  1. badr.r says:

    There is deference between graphic designer and creative graphic designer I think it’s so easy to be graphic designer but so difficult to be creative graphic designer or just creative.
    Creativity is a god talent.
    To be a creative u must make your imprint in any thing you shares

  2. badr.r says:

    There is deference between graphic designer and creative graphic designer I think it’s so easy to be graphic designer but so difficult to be creative graphic designer or just creative.
    Creativity is a god talent.
    To be a creative u must make your imprint in any thing you shares

  3. badr.r says:

    There is deference between graphic designer and creative graphic designer I think it’s so easy to be graphic designer but so difficult to be creative graphic designer or just creative.
    Creativity is a god talent.
    To be a creative u must make your imprint in any thing you shares

  4. To Badr.r: A graphic designer who isn’t creative should be stripped of the luxury of being called a graphic designer. If creativity isn’t part of a graphic designer’s natural thinking process, then they aren’t really graphic designers to begin with, because graphic design is in fact a creative medium.

    Those who practice it without creativity are what give the medium and the industry a bad reputation of not being a proper art form.

  5. To Badr.r: A graphic designer who isn’t creative should be stripped of the luxury of being called a graphic designer. If creativity isn’t part of a graphic designer’s natural thinking process, then they aren’t really graphic designers to begin with, because graphic design is in fact a creative medium.

    Those who practice it without creativity are what give the medium and the industry a bad reputation of not being a proper art form.

  6. To Badr.r: A graphic designer who isn’t creative should be stripped of the luxury of being called a graphic designer. If creativity isn’t part of a graphic designer’s natural thinking process, then they aren’t really graphic designers to begin with, because graphic design is in fact a creative medium.

    Those who practice it without creativity are what give the medium and the industry a bad reputation of not being a proper art form.

  7. To Badr.r: A graphic designer who isn’t creative should be stripped of the luxury of being called a graphic designer. If creativity isn’t part of a graphic designer’s natural thinking process, then they aren’t really graphic designers to begin with, because graphic design is in fact a creative medium.

    Those who practice it without creativity are what give the medium and the industry a bad reputation of not being a proper art form.

  8. admin says:

    I totally agree with you Mohammed. graphic Designer with no talent is not but some one who mimics others ideas and can not produce his or her own. I myself met alot of people in this type, such a person comes to the field looking for money or even looking for him/herself in the wrong place.
    Such people can easily leave the field and go working in a totally different field without pain, because simply they do not enjoy the pain of the new idea or feel jealous of any one who work in the same field.

    p.S. I liked you work on (http://www.ganzeer.com) very much, it is really creative.

  9. admin says:

    I totally agree with you Mohammed. graphic Designer with no talent is not but some one who mimics others ideas and can not produce his or her own. I myself met alot of people in this type, such a person comes to the field looking for money or even looking for him/herself in the wrong place.
    Such people can easily leave the field and go working in a totally different field without pain, because simply they do not enjoy the pain of the new idea or feel jealous of any one who work in the same field.

    p.S. I liked you work on (http://www.ganzeer.com) very much, it is really creative.

  10. admin says:

    I totally agree with you Mohammed. graphic Designer with no talent is not but some one who mimics others ideas and can not produce his or her own. I myself met alot of people in this type, such a person comes to the field looking for money or even looking for him/herself in the wrong place.
    Such people can easily leave the field and go working in a totally different field without pain, because simply they do not enjoy the pain of the new idea or feel jealous of any one who work in the same field.

    p.S. I liked you work on (http://www.ganzeer.com) very much, it is really creative.

  11. Mona says:

    Graphic designers differs in their Talent and their creativity. I think the best one who has it since his born and discovers it early and benefit from.
    but also there are others who has this Talent but not strong enough to feel, which makes them disappointed.
    These people should be sure that with continuous practice their talent will be stronger enough to feel and appear clear in their designs which makes them more confidence in their selfs.

  12. Mona says:

    Graphic designers differs in their Talent and their creativity. I think the best one who has it since his born and discovers it early and benefit from.
    but also there are others who has this Talent but not strong enough to feel, which makes them disappointed.
    These people should be sure that with continuous practice their talent will be stronger enough to feel and appear clear in their designs which makes them more confidence in their selfs.

  13. Mona says:

    Graphic designers differs in their Talent and their creativity. I think the best one who has it since his born and discovers it early and benefit from.
    but also there are others who has this Talent but not strong enough to feel, which makes them disappointed.
    These people should be sure that with continuous practice their talent will be stronger enough to feel and appear clear in their designs which makes them more confidence in their selfs.

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