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The Warrior Reports: Graphic designer Max Huskins delivers what the client wants

The Warrior Reports: Graphic designer Max Huskins delivers what the client wants


Posted by editor Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:22
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Graphic designer Max Huskins cannot afford the luxury of artist’s block.

Huskins, a panelist at the Tehachapi High School Career Fair, said sometimes a designer has to work with zebra stripes and a pink background because that is what the client wants.

A graphic designer also must get the customer’s order finished when it is due.
 
“Your time is valuable,” he said.
 
Huskins, who works at Prime Signs in Tehachapi, and business is good in spite of the tough economy.
 
“Business is actually doing very well because people always need advertising,” Huskins said.
 
Graphic designing pays from $10 an hour as an apprentice to $25 to $35 an hour as an expert, he said.
 
 Graphic designing does not always require a college degree, but it does require a good traditional art portfolio.
 
 Huskins went to school for drafting and graphing design, and was offered a job at Prime Signs two years into his schooling.
 
 “Being a graphic designer is an open profession,” Huskins said. It includes making signs, magnets, printing and sand carved signs , laser engraving, wind lettering and glass etching.
 
One job, he said, meant wrapping a mid-90s black Ford Ranger pickup truck completely in flame-emblazoned vinyl.
 
 
 
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