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People tend to cheapen my work because they feel anyone can easily do designs
In general I think the most challenging are people (clients) who dont know what they want. For that kind of approach, designer really needs patience and experience in communication.
There are more and more designers entering the market every day, and heavy competition for design work from unqualified “designers” has created a buyer’s market. Thus, designers are forced to sell at lower fees and work for lower wages. Clients and employers want great design, and they want it fast, and in order to maximize your income you’ll have to work fast, often under several deadlines at once.
Perhaps the biggest problem good graphic designers face is that they’re undervalued, which means they’re underpaid. One of the biggest pitfalls many designers make is to charge what everyone else charges. I think this makes them appear average. That’s why I recommend charging more. It sets you apart as a premium designer, and it will also help you land the best clients. It will also solve all the other problems mentioned here, as you’ll have fewer projects to work on and less upper-tier competition, yet make more money.
I guess inspiration. As we work with different entities especially companies in technology fields, you can't just go too artistic on them. It is sometimes difficult to sort out nice colors, symbols, and anything that catches the eyes while following company's colors generally based on diffrent shades of two or three colours.
Imagination is the most common thing for Graphic Designers
: As colleagues have said before meits all about the idea ,, if you get it ,, you got the world
Well i'll take it too short to understand the point, huh actually that main challenge is to make an idea to take the process further.
Question rises in your mind how to create an idea?
Well the perfect answer to thi question is to see the Inspirational artworks out there on the web or the human friendly BOOKS, if you think creative designers who are on top of the career even uses this method, i will advise to visit an art industry or a company you'll see bunch of books on the table of a Graphic Designer, some of them may be about layouts it can be about colors and sizes, because not every time you can generate ideas it yourself without any inspirational and the second thing attention to the details what the client is looking for/ what the brand or company is about, if the book does not helps out search out on web and get the job done.
Buyers Market
There are more and more designers entering the market every day, and though a career in graphic design is often considered recession-proof (and the field is estimate to grow by 13 percent by 2013, heavy competition for design work from unqualified “designers” has created a buyer’s market. Thus, designers are forced to sell at lower fees and work for lower wages.
Overseas Competition
Some companies truly care about their images and are willing to pay for great design work. Some just want the job done as economically as possible. Overseas competition has traditionally served the latter, which deepens the price basement and lowers the ceiling along with it. The bigger problem, however, is that some of those overseas designers are getting quite good at design and are willing to work for far less than you are.
Template
More small businesses just want the job done. For example, they just want to print a Poster that promotes their newest deal. If they can do it with a $20 template instead of paying you $1,500 for design, they will. Templates make it easy to forgo custom design in favor of a cheap and easy solution; however, they also represent an excellent opportunity for graphic designers.
Ever tightening deadlines
One of my biggest gripes about the digital age is that equipment that was originally designed to make work easier has also increased output expectations. If a computer lets you do in five hours what used to take you eight, shouldn’t you get off work three hours earlier? Not in today’s market; in fact, you’ll be lucky if you can fit everything in eight hours at all. Clients and employers want great design, and they want it fast, and in order to maximize your income you’ll have to work fast, often under several deadlines at once.
Want to work on various medias in same day.
As a graphics desinger we daily face very common challenges as how to create new designs and how to show new things to anyone or clients. Creativity is the key of success as a graphics designer so if we have creative mind so we easily face daily challenges.
