| Copyright (c) 2010 Ted Cantu | | | | working for various advertising groups. I noticed this |
| I found something online the other day that really | | | | sort of behavior when I worked professionally. There |
| got me laughing. There are people out there who are | | | | were graphic designers who called themselves, |
| calling themselves 'online motorsports marketing | | | | 'Chiropractic Graphic Designers' or 'Medical Graphic |
| specialists'! In this digital age I suppose anything is | | | | Designers' and I never understood this. All of a |
| possible and we do live in a country of free | | | | sudden a graphic designer had to have a medical |
| enterprise. But I do find this somewhat amusing. If | | | | degree to create 2D and 3D designs for the medical |
| you are doing online marketing then you are an online | | | | community. This whole notion is just absurd. When I |
| marketing specialist period. I find the slight distinction | | | | was in the art direction and advertising game we had |
| of adding a motorsports classification unnecessary. | | | | our own name for graphic designers. We used to call |
| This doesn't make the specialist better or worse as | | | | each other pixel jockeys. It's not very nice or very |
| long as they are masters of their own objectives. In | | | | complimentary but that was what we were. In my |
| this case, marketing Yamaha atv parts, Kawasaki | | | | opinion we were nothing more than replaceable |
| oem parts, or any type of Honda motorcycles. | | | | dreamers, hustlers, and panic driven job takers |
| When I was in New York I served as an art director | | | | working on the scene. |