This morning I’m thinking back on projects I’ve completed in the last few years, and it’s made me realize that part of being a graphic designer is constantly learning and adapting to accommodate the huge variety of media available for presenting our clients’ brands.

It wasn’t too long ago that a designer went to school and studied print, with maybe some schooling in television or animation. Then came this new-fangled category of new media, which largely meant websites and interactive CD-ROMS (remember those) and later, DVD interface design.

Today’s designer must understand the ins and outs of designing for ever-evolving printing presses, digital billboards, competing browsers, and do-it-yourself-ers, just to name a few. Some designers select to work within a single medium, while others—like Mix Creative—keep adding to their skillset. Here’s a sampling of the variety of projects we’ve worked on in the last couple of years:

PRINT

• Offset and Digitally-printed business cards
• Direct mail (including personalized pieces)
• Booklets, catalogs, and magazines
• Bookmarks
• Magnets
• Bag stuffers
• In-store and exterior signage
• Print billboards
• Brochures (offset and digital)
• POP
• Pocket folders and media kits
• Print ads
• Microsoft Word stationery, flier templates, forms, labels, etc.
• Printed address labels
• Envelopes
• Package design
• Tradeshow graphics
• Notecards
• Buttons

Social media avatars created for a client

An html e-blast template

A custom Twitter background

DIGITAL

• Desktop icons
• Avatars
• Email signatures
• Custom Facebook pages
• Custom Twitter backgrounds
• Digital billboards
• Profile images
• Browser window icons
• Websites
• Custom blogs
• Email stationery
• Email newsletters
• Fliers printed to pdf only
• Email fliers
• Email ads
• Powerpoint presentations
• Video graphics
• Animated gifs

I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but hopefully you’re getting the idea: today’s designers are VERSATILE!

So, for all of you designers out there: what’s the most unusual product you’ve created in the last two years?