Graphic Designers

Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

What a graphic designer does

Become a graphic designer

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good graphic designer

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  • Talking to others.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  • Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
  • Understanding people's reactions.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

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Graphic Designer job outlook

  • There are 4,928 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 842 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

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Education needed

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

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