hey you guys welcome back to our channel the number one place for people who love design art
and all things creative you are watching Dantier + Balogh's channel my name is Laszlo and in this
video i want to guide you to a week in the life of a graphic designer i really enjoyed
this behind the scenes of our studio vlog type videos a day in my life kind of content so i
thought we should have one of those videos the only problem is a day in my life is actually
quite boring do you want to know what i do in an average day as a designer
it's called pixel pushing not very interesting is it people overestimate what they can get done in a
day but i think at the same time we underestimate what we can get done in a week so i thought i
would show you what is my ideal week as a content creator because in a week besides other duties
and commitments of course i aspire to do something cool and creative every day come i'll show you how
morning so it's monday almost 8 o'clock and i'm vlogging
this is what the world has come to
you know what let's make some coffee then i'll tell you all about my plans for the day okay
to start my week of strong i like to spend my monday mornings working my way through a bunch
of admin duties this is the time i answer emails reply to our instagram dms and whenever it's up to
me this is also the time i like to schedule client meetings and phone calls too as well
in the afternoon if my schedule allows it i record a video for this channel
now depending on the video's complexity this can take about an hour or so
once we are all set up and ready to roll if i'm really quick i also like to start
the video editing process on a monday you guys welcome back to our channel the number one place
for people who love design art and all things creative well i just sent you in a time loop
didn't i that was cool the beginning was the end the end was the beginning like christopher nolan
what was that movie inception not inception the other one memento anyway we're outside
so it's tuesday now tuesdays are usually my hardcore video editing days
if you are a regular viewer you know that i upload a video every wednesday
so to make sure i made this deadline i just sit down and edit video for hours
and hours and hours until my eyes feel like they are about to pop out from their place
if you are a filmmaker you know how intense video production can be so on a tuesday i
always always allocate some time for myself to go out and have a little walk around just
to clean my head out very very important and it should be scheduled otherwise i genuinely forget
hey so today today is a little bit of an errands day so i have to go and do some food shopping
and i guess i'll meet you guys back at the office once i'm done right
it's done let's go home
the first thing i do on a wednesday morning is finish off whatever work that is still to be
done for my weekly youtube video last minute editing rendering exporting thumbnail design
and once it's all set i schedule it for the afternoon once that's done i move on to client
work just to spice things up a little bit i like to schedule the fun and more creative
natured works on to these afternoons just to get outside of the creative software packages
after the heavy first part of the week it's nice to not look at screens that much and
get some hand-drawn sketching done thinking of creative concepts all that kind of thing
so what you have just seen there was me doing some sketchbook work for this new client of mine
now obviously i can't tell you much about it just before the brand launch but i have to say
i'm so pumped for this one it is more of an icon than a logo and it's going
to be complex it's going to be something new and weird and exciting and very very
illustrative which is the kind of stuff that i live for so tomorrow hopefully i get around to
do some digital versions for it as well but for now i'm off high enough for today see you later
hi guys good morning so i was just thinking i really hope that as the days go by in this video
all these little random intro bits are getting less and less cringe-worthy hopefully i'm going to
talk a little bit more about this in a minute but the thing is when i make videos for this channel
usually my videos are so meticulously scripted that i leave little to no room for improvisation
so it's been quite an interesting experience just to get up dress up get ready for the day and then
hit record on this camera and basically just say whatever comes to mind as the first dose of the
day i really hope that you know it makes sense anyway let's get to work shall we on an idiot
thursday i start off with some personal design duties this usually manifests itself in things
like making case studies updating the dancer embolo website or make some new instagram content
in the afternoons i carry on with client work wherever i left off the day before
this is a good day to digitalize those sketches and start building out all those creative concepts
to see how they would work in practice hey so today is friday or is it i mean are you watching
this on a friday am i recording this on a friday how do we know does it matter why am i asking so
many questions well because i believe if you want to be a working creative sometimes you need to
challenge your perspective you know what i'm saying
friday mornings i tend to play catch-up so whatever needs to be finished or sent off by
the end of the given week obviously enjoys priority in the morning here
super quick tip whenever it's left up to me i like to send my deliverables to clients towards the end
of the week this gives your clients a chance to mull over the work as well as a chance for you
to take a breather so usually i just shoot them a quick email saying something like hey guys here's
the fives i promised have a look through and maybe in the coming monday we can talk about it face to
face on a zoom call or something yeah this usually takes me to at least lunch time after which i
spend some time just getting inspired think of personal creative ideas mostly for videos these
days so i do spend some time online looking at what other creatives are up to and after some
research i just sit down and write a script for next week's video which i will record next monday
and cut that's basically a week in the life of a designer naturally a content creator's life is
much more unpredictable in practice like sometimes i have to spend more of my time doing client work
which is great but obviously that means that our instagram content or scheduled videos will
have to wait a little bit while other times the commission pool gets a little bit dry which leaves
me with the chance to make more complex personal projects or videos for you guys as always guys
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