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The Design Career Guide

Design Careers - Future Outlook

Design careers offer the ultimate in creativity, flexibility, and expression. After all, literally everything you do and make is custom made. You're almost never following a template. You're creating new, never-seen-before, clothes, Web sites, living spaces, display windows, floral arrangements, and artwork.

Varied careers
As you can see, design career options are quite plentiful. You can work as an interior designer and help decorate living or work spaces. You can begin a career as a fashion designer and visit runways around the world. Floral designers have a great job with year round demand. And even window display designers enjoy a great deal of demand due to the public's desire for fashion and consumption. Pick a muse and follow it. It's hard to go wrong in this particular industry.

Formal studies will greatly aid you in your quest
Although options abound, you'll still need to complete formal studies and certification for some of these jobs. Interior designers, for example, must be licensed and certified in many States (including the District of Columbia). That's because they sometimes make substantial, internal alterations to existing structures. You'll need to study basic architecture if you want to enter this field. If you're a Web designer, you'll want to study consumer psychology and marketing since your sites will have to compete with the billions of other sites that already exist.

Job growth and prospects
The Department of Labor predicts favorable job growth for the various design careers. Interior design and Web design will probably rise more quickly than the other areas, but none of them is expected to lag too far behind.

Salaries vary quite a bit depending on the exact field. Industrial designers and fashion designers are in the highest bracket making about $52,000 a year. Floral designers are at the lower end of the spectrum making approximately $20,000 a year.

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Learn more about your Design Career

What does it mean to study Design?
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General Career Information: Design Jobs
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General Outlook - Job Openings & Education Requirements
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How to get required Education
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Top Online Design Schools

	Grand Canyon University Don't Miss a Day of Your Future' Grand Canyon University is offering Bachelor and Master degrees through our College of Education, Ken Blanchard College of Business, College of Nursing, and College of Liberal Arts. Classes start soon' Learn more
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Westwood College Westwood College is an institution of higher learning founded in Denver, Colorado in 1953. Today, Westwood has 14 campuses across California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois and Virginia and an online campus.Westwood offers a unique hands-on, career-focused curriculum providing three-year bachelor’s degrees in high-growth fields. We have more than 13,000 students enrolled in one of our degree programs in business, design, technology, industrial services, justice and healthcare. To date, ov [...] Learn more

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Graphic Design, Interior Design, Visual Communication Learn more

	Briarcliffe College Briarcliffe College – Bethpage and Patchogue can give you the education you need to succeed. Learn more
Available Programs:	Animation, Graphic Design Learn more