all right Dantier and Balogh season two let's do it okay you guys welcome back to our channel the
number one place for people who love design art and all things creative my name is laszlo you
are watching D+B's channel and in this first video of the year i thought i would show you my little
graphic design setup so you can see how you can build up a well functioning home office desk setup
on a budget there are great videos about this topic out there here on youtube and i don't know
about you but i love binge watching this sort of content which is like you know behind the scenes
it's really fun to see all these amazing creators and all that gear what they're using for
you know the amazing graphics and illustrations and all that cool stuff that they are doing
obviously everyone setup is somewhat different but there is one common point
that i have found in these videos that they don't seem to address that much so i thought
i could make a video about it no disrespect to any of these big name players of the design field
but when they say you don't need expensive equipment to create and then they will keep
you that excruciatingly expensive gear what they use to create i feel like oftentimes it
can come out even if just on a subconscious level you know somewhat contradictory and
it may be discouraging for the future generations of creators who are just starting up the thing is
my setup is let's just say it's much more modest than most of these videos and what i hope is that
it can serve you as proof that you really don't need much to start out making digital content
illustrations graphic design maybe even videos whatever your niche is so without further ado let
me show you what i got going on here now the heart of my whole ecosystem is my msi ps63 modern laptop
this is the 8rc version i know that there are a couple different editions of this computer
available depending on wherever you are in the world but as far as i'm concerned the differences
are nothing major there are some slightly different processors as well as graphics cards are
installing these different models if you ask me this is a near perfect laptop for content creation
the computer-savvy viewers will know what to look for in a laptop anyway but if you are not
one of those people let me just say make sure you spend your money on a high performing processor
and depending on your needs on the graphics card as well i got this laptop in the second half of
2019 so in tech terms it is no longer the latest and greatest of course because as we all know in
the world of i.t devices age like milk and your 2019 gear can feel like a veteran compared to
today's models now thinking about it 2019 does feel like it was about 10 years ago doesn't it
anyway moving on the spine in which my computer leans on is this tag box laptop stand this is
obviously something that the talented interior designer that is jacqueline dantier has got me
i would have never thought of this myself but it is an ingenious way to get a bit more space
out of your desk now if i want to quickly get rid of something like these little wireless
bits and bobs i can just put them under the stand and boom now i have a full-on table for
sketching speaking of wireless devices i got this technet wireless keyboard here and my trustworthy
microsoft surface mouse as the main peripherals as well as my graphics tablets i would say maybe
not the keyboard but a good quality mouse is essential when it comes to creative work
for the digital illustrator a lot i don't need to introduce the wacom brand which are simply the
best digital drawing tablets that money can buy i got this little one called the wacom one and my
big guns is the wacom intuos pro medium now this is just my opinion but i think unless your focus
is pixel based digital painting in something like photoshop you don't really need the intuos pro
i've been using both of these for years now and i gotta tell you i think the only noticeable
difference between the two is the pressure sensitivity obviously the more expensive intuos
one has about twice as many levels of pen pressure to sense your brush strokes but the thing is
not many of us needs that level of precision if you are a designer building websites or if
you do vector graphics you'll get by the smaller one so save your money and buy the one by wacom
okay the brains as i like to call them besides my laptop's ssd i have this wd external hard drive as
well as this brand new samsung t7 solid-state drive i am quite serious about backups and i
think you should be too there is this saying an id circle that unless a file is backed up
in at least three different ways it might as well doesn't exist so yeah the big htd has all my work
backed up on it going back to like six seven years it has all my universe and all that and this new
ssd i'm planning to use on solely on video stuff these boys can be a little pricey depending on
their storage capacity but honestly this is not something you want to save money on as i always
say more is more when it comes to digital storage now it's time to steer this button to let's just
say hypocritical water to some extent because i want to talk about my bluetooth headphones
what do you need them no no one does but the convenience i mean once you get used to the idea
of cordless headphones it's actually really hard to go back to these you know old school ones and
i still keep a pair of these at hand at all times anyway just because it's actually quite nice the
one i have it's an akg pair of headphones that came with my phone actually so good job something
now the legs on which this whole system rests is the lenon desk that we got last year from ikea
in one of our earliest videos you can see us assembling this thing
again it was one of our first videos so please excuse the little mistakes and
the lack of editing skills if you watch that one we barely know how to edit videos back in
those days one modification we have done since last year is installing these baskets onto the
bottom of the desk in an attempt to tame the beast of a burden that is cable management
again nothing fancy here four clamps holding these metal baskets in which we keep a pair of
extension leads to power up the whole workstation okay just to wrap this up i have a few additional
random bits and bobs i keep two tripods attend this little desk one which i use when i'm filming
myself sitting down and this flexible armboard which turned out to be pretty useful when i want
to record my drawing and doing what it does best in a sketchbook naturally i have some stationary
bits hanging around pens pen seals post-it notes on one side and a bunch of sketchbook on the other
and this little desktop because it's just all so designing i love it and that's pretty much it
is this the idea set up for me at the moment yeah kind of it fulfills all my needs for now
obviously your desk setup is something that you will never be 100 percent happy with because
you know as time goes on new things will catch your eye and your needs will change as well like
if i knew back in 2019 what working is going to be like for the next coming years i probably
would have bought an expensive desktop pc instead of an expensive laptop also like most of these
other videos on youtube state an external monitor is you know a nice thing to have more screen state
is always better than this but apart from that i think this is genuinely all you need to get
to work so yeah go ahead do it no excuses again i want to state that this was a desk setup on a
budget video so i didn't mean to these people who have you know a wireless charger for their phones
on their desk or one of those rgb strips installed that makes the room go like where when when
wow all of that is super cool stuff obviously but just to start out in the world of design and make
what i'm making illustration graphic design light video editing i truly believe that you
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