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Maddie K

What is graphic design? - 12 views

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  • Suppose you want to announce or sell something, amuse or persuade someone, explain a complicated system or demonstrate a process. In other words, you have a message you want to communicate. How do you “send” it? You could tell people one by one or broadcast by radio or loudspeaker. That's verbal communication. But if you use any visual medium at all-if you make a poster; type a letter; create a business logo, a magazine ad, or an album cover; even make a computer printout-you are using a form of visual communication called graphic design.
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  • graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure.
  • Designers often combine images and typography to communicate a client's message to an audience. They explore the creative possibilities presented by words (typography) and images (photography, illustration, and fine art). It is up to the designer not only to find or create appropriate letterforms and images but also to establish the best balance between them.
  • Graphic designers work with drawn, painted, photographed, or computer-generated images (pictures)
  • Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.
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  • Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.
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  • Symbols and logos are special, highly condensed information forms or identifiers. Symbols are abstract representation of a particular idea or identity. The CBS “eye” and the active “television” are symbolic forms, which we learn to recognize as representing a particular concept or company. Logotypes are corporate identifications based on a special typographical word treatment. Some identifiers are hybrid, or combinations of symbol and logotype. In order to create these identifiers, the designer must have a clear vision of the corporation or idea to be represented and of the audience to which the message is directed.
  • Image-based design Designers develop images to represent the ideas their clients want to communicate. Images can be incredibly powerful and compelling tools of communication, conveying not only information but also moods and emotions. People respond to images instinctively based on their personalities, associations, and previous experience. For example, you know that a chili pepper is hot, and this knowledge in combination with the image creates a visual pun. In the case of image-based design, the images must carry the entire message; there are few if any words to help. These images may be photographic, painted, drawn, or graphically rendered in many different ways. Image-based design is employed when the designer determines that, in a particular case, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words.
  • Type-based design In some cases, designers rely on words to convey a message, but they use words differently from the ways writers do. To designers, what the words look like is as important as their meaning. The visual forms, whether typography (communication designed by means of the printed word) or handmade lettering, perform many communication functions. They can arrest your attention on a poster, identify the product name on a package or a truck, and present running text as the typography in a book does. Designers are experts at presenting information in a visual form in print or on film, packaging, or signs.
  • Graphic designers work with drawn, painted, photographed, or computer-generated images (pictures), but they also design the letterforms that make up various typefaces found in movie credits and TV ads; in books, magazines, and menus; and even on computer screens. Designers create, choose, and organize these elements-typography, images, and the so-called “white space” around them-to communicate a message. Graphic design is a part of your daily life. From humble things like gum wrappers to huge things like billboards to the T-shirt you're wearing, graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure. Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography
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  • Graphic designers work with drawn, painted, photographed, or computer-generated images (pictures), but they also design the letterforms that make up various typefaces found in movie credits and TV ads; in books, magazines, and menus; and even on computer screens. Designers create, choose, and organize these elements-typography, images, and the so-called “white space” around them-to communicate a message. Graphic design is a part of your daily life. From humble things like gum wrappers to huge things like billboards to the T-shirt you're wearing, graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure. Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.
  • Spencer M on 04 Sep 12
     
    What is graphic design?
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  • Joseph D on 04 Sep 12
     
    AIGA | What is graphic design?
  • Wyatt R on 04 Sep 12
     
    Explanation of graphic design
  • Joseph S on 04 Sep 12
     
    what is graphic design?
  • Troy A on 04 Sep 12
     
    Suppose you want to announce or sell something, amuse or persuade someone, explain a complicated system or demonstrate a process. In other words, you have a message you want to communicate. How do you "send" it? You could tell people one by one or broadcast by radio or loudspeaker. That's verbal communication. But if you use any visual medium at all-if you make a poster; type a letter; create a business logo, a magazine ad, or an album cover; even make a computer printout-you are using a form of visual communication called graphic design. Graphic designers work with drawn, painted, photographed, or computer-generated images (pictures), but they also design the letterforms that make up various typefaces found in movie credits and TV ads; in books, magazines, and menus; and even on computer screens. Designers create, choose, and organize these elements-typography, images, and the so-called "white space" around them-to communicate a message. Graphic design is a part of your daily life. From humble things like gum wrappers to huge things like billboards to the T-shirt you're wearing, graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure. Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.
  • Reilly S on 04 Sep 12
     
    Information/Definition on graphic design
Bryden L

What is Graphic Design? - 7 views

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  • What Is Graphic Design?
  • Graphic design combines the creativity and formal characteristics of fine art with the audience-centered approach of marketing to create effective visual communication. Unlike fine art, it is always in the service of the client’s needs.
  • To do this, designers analyze data about the intended audience, such as the audience’s class, gender, education, buying habits, personality traits, favorite magazines and television shows, and so on.
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  • Designers take that demographic and psychographic information and look at what that audience sees. For instance, if the intended audience loves Martha Stewart, designers look at Martha Stewart magazines, ads, and products to analyze their visual vocabulary (color, theme, shape, typeface, composition).
  • Design based in this understanding of the intended audience is highly successful. Trying to design without it is like trying to communicate without knowing the language of the listener.
  • In addition to a broad grounding in fine art, marketing, and creativity, graphic designers also build an extensive body of technical knowledge regarding paper stocks, printing inks, special processes such as foil-stamping or embossing, printing processes and limitations, digital file preparation, quality control, and troubleshooting. Graphic design encompasses any product that’s “ink-on-paper” (brochures, logos, book jackets, billboards, packaging, etc). Each medium has its own technical considerations that designers must master in order to achieve their intended effect.
  • Emily Z on 04 Sep 12
     
    Explains what Graphic Design is...
  • Austin C on 04 Sep 12
     
    this describes in detail all the components that a beginner may need to know about Graphic Design
Jake R

What is graphic design? | Graphic Design Classes | Shillington School NYC - 0 views

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  • OurCourse What is graphic design? Effective visual communication of an idea or concept. Graphic design is a part of everything we see and touch
Cassie B

Graphic Design Degree - The Art Institutes - 0 views

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The art Institutes GRAPHIC DESIGN

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  • Cassie B on 04 Sep 12
     
    What is the creativity of graphic designers, and what does the Institutes of Graphic Design provide as in schooling
Isacc M

What is graphic design, and why is it important? | Verite Blog - 3 views

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    what is it and why is it important
Ollecka H

What is Typography? - 1 views

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  • Typography refers to the arrangement of text on a page, and appears in some form or another in all instances of written communication.
  • At the most basic, typography is a combination of font, size, spacing, and color.
  • The overall purpose behind the typography of the article is to clearly communicate written information to a reader.
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  • This is also the case with typography in newspapers, books, and other sources of information. Newspaper typography is a carefully balanced art form, as the compositors of the newspaper must be able to fit the required text within certain page restrictions.
  • However, typography can also be elevated into an art form. The best examples of highly artistic typography are found in advertising design. For example, most consumers associate particular fonts with certain branded products, because the advertising campaign featured distinctive use of those fonts.
  • Ollecka H on 05 Sep 12
     
    Typography in Graphic Design
Joseph D

What is Graphic Design? - 2 views

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What is Graphic Design

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  • Graphic Design’s primary purpose is to organize, plan and arrange page content into art that will influence or market to an audience. 
Merrilee L

What is Typography All About? - 0 views

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typography design

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  • If you think about it, the craft of typography is little more than the combination of three very simple things: attention to detail, common sense and visual acuity. Sure, there are typographic rules and guidelines, but they are, for the most part, just based on what is sensible and pleasing to the eye. Learning to identify the parts of a character may increase a designer’s business vocabulary, and knowing the lineage of Garamond designs may aid in the choosing of a good modern revival of the face, but the real key to typographic success is basically just “sweating the details” and a simple coordination of mind and eye.
Merrilee L

What is Photoshop? - Learning & Scholarly Technologies - 0 views

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what is photoshop

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  • Photoshop is the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet.
Serina B

Graphic Design - GraphicBull - Graphic and Web Development - 0 views

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  • As you know, GraphicBull has always been about providing the most for our customers.  Be it hosting, web design, web development or any of the many other services we offer, we always strive to exceed our client expectations.
  • Before you hire a web designer be aware that building a website requires a major commitment of both the client and the designer in time and money. There are thousands of web design companies out there that will tell you they will build the best website you’ll ever seen, and they probably will. In today’s world we have the luxury of having too many options, and choosing the right designer or design company can be a difficult thing to do. Graphic Bull customer's service stands above what we experienced before
  • Serina B on 04 Sep 12
     
    Before you hire a web designer be aware that building a website requires a major commitment of both the client and the designer in time and money. There are thousands of web design companies out there that will tell you they will build the best website you'll ever seen, and they probably will. In today's world we have the luxury of having too many options, and choosing the right designer or design company can be a difficult thing to do. Graphic Bull customer's service stands above what we experienced before.
Joseph D

Elements of Graphic Design : Principles of Graphic Design : What is Graphic Design and ... - 1 views

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Design Elements

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  • This is the first and most important. Color is everything. It’s why we buy HDTV sets to get better color. You want to consider your product first. Is there a color that fits the item? Are you selling beach items, chose a sand color. Are you selling electronics, chose a metallic color. Next make sure the color is eye-catching but possible to look at. If you can’t stare at the color for at least the minimum amount of time that you’d want your customer’s attention, then don’t use it.
  • And I don’t mean “a line” I mean the line of the elements in your project. Stand back and squint at your creation. Notice the line of the text and the images. Where are the lines moving? They should all direct your customer’s attention from the top of your page to the bottom in a seamless movement. If you notice an out of place line the directs your eyes back to the top of the page or stops it all together then you need to rearrange a few items.
  • Squint again and notice the text as a block, or rectangular form, instead of individual lines. Notice the images or art as shapes. And notice the entire piece as a form. All of the forms should flow from one to another. Each form should direct your eye to the next form on the page from top to bottom, again in a seamless flowing line.
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  • I’ve already touched on this but this is very important. You want your customer to start at the top left corner and end in the bottom right corner. The traditional form of movement is a “Z” meaning the eye should start in the top left, go to the top right, make a diagonal to the bottom left, and end up in the bottom right. This form is ideal for advertising and web pages with a lot of graphics or images. The exception would be a page with all text, where you would want the reader’s eye to move left to right on each line.
  • We all pay attention to the amount of space that we use on our projects. What about the space that you don’t use? Do you notice that? Well it’s just as important. Stand back and squint again. Notice the percentage of items filling up your project, what is the percentage of negative, unused space? While you want to make the most of your space available, you don’t want all of it used up either. Using too much makes an ad look busy too little it looks empty. An appropriate percentage can be anywhere from 60% to 80% used space and 40% to 20% negative or unused space. Keep your percentages in that range and you’ll have a nicely balanced ad, web page, or project.
  • This is becoming important again with web design. All of the really cool and interesting textures that you can use for anything from backgrounds to text is amazing. Remember one thing that a texture carries almost as much weight to the eye as a photo. Just as you would not place a lot of photos on your page don’t use too many textures. Also watch your placement of these they can pull the eye away from where you want it to move.
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    Basic Elements
Karley B

What is Graphic Design? - 2 views

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  • Graphic Design is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving activity which combines visual sensitivity with skill and knowledge in areas of communications, technology and business. Graphic design practitioners specialise in the structuring and organizing of visual information to aid communication and orientation(1).
  • Justin C on 04 Sep 12
     
    Graphic Design is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving activity which combines visual sensitivity with skill and knowledge in areas of communications, technology and business. Graphic design practitioners specialise in the structuring and organizing of visual information to aid communication and orientation(1).
Justin H

Graphic Designers : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 3 views

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  • Graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They help to make an organization recognizable by selecting color, images, or logo designs that represent a particular idea or identity to be used in advertising and promotions.  
  • Most of these workers are employed in specialized design services, publishing, or advertising, public relations and related services. In 2010, about 29 percent of graphic designers were self-employed.
  • Graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They help to make an organization recognizable by selecting color, images, or logo designs that represent a particular idea or identity to be used in advertising and promotions.  
  • Justin C on 04 Sep 12
     
    Graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They help to make an organization recognizable by selecting color, images, or logo designs that represent a particular idea or identity to be used in advertising and promotions.
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  • Cassie B on 04 Sep 12
     
    ~what a graphic designers do ~work environment ~how to become a graphic designer ~pay ~job outlook
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    "Graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They help to make an organization recognizable by selecting color, images, or logo designs that represent a particular idea or identity to be used in advertising and promotions. Work Environment Most of these workers are employed in specialized design services, publishing, or advertising, public relations and related services. In 2010, about 29 percent of graphic designers were self-employed. How to Become a Graphic Designer"
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    graphic design
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    About being a graphic designing as a career
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    Occupation Outlook
Everson W

Pandora Internet Radio - Listen to Free Music You'll Love - 0 views

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Music Radio Streaming

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    Pandora. You should know what it is.
Everson W

Graphic Design - What is Graphic Design - 8 views

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graphic design what

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  • Graphic design is all around us. It is in our morning paper, on our commute to work, and on the cover of our favorite books. The most common forms include:
Taylor E

What Type of Graphic Designer Are You? - ArtBistro.com - 1 views

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  • “The Design Informants of Information Graphics”Design Informants are meticulous, detailed oriented people. When it comes to laying out information on the canvas, they have organizational skills in their blood. They are very complex and know how to present vital information visually to the target audience. Their task is to make the information flexible and easy to read. Their color palette is usually matched with meanings or codes. These designers are mostly illustrators and believe the weights of stroke marks can communicate various ideas and feelings to the reader. “The Public Designer of Publications” These types of designers design for the public. They within newspapers, books and magazines — circulated written documents. So what’s their specialty? Words, words, words! Which ultimately means typography; choosing the right fonts for the article. This kind of design involves a lot of body copy and knowledge of print production processes is a must. DPI’s and CMYK’s are their allies. Their greatest skills are kerning and leading
  • Taylor E on 04 Sep 12
     
    "The Simple Brander" Brand designers love identifying their client. They love to take designated colors and logos and expand their reach to stationary and marketing materials, creating a presence for their clients. They believe solely in positive and negative areas and think minimalism is the best solution to any design problem. The "less is more" motto is their go-to. And, they have the most intricate creative process. The development of logos involves much sketching and experimentation. Their client's Graphic Standards Manual is their BIBLE. Color theory and symbolism are their assistants in creating a logo and brand. Adobe Illustrator is their forte. Although there are separate categories and specialties within the graphic design industry, we must all mastered having an eye for design. Even though we may have our differences, all graphic designers ( no matter shape or size) share the same passion: to communicate visually!
Merrilee L

What Is Web Design? - 0 views

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web design

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  • Web design is used as a general term to describe any of the various tasks involved in creating a web page. More specifically, it refers to jobs focused on building the front-end of a web page.The web consists of myriad pages, presenting information using different technologies and linked together with hyperlinks. There are two basic aspects to any web page found on the Internet. The first is a presentation that the user interacts with, usually visually, while the second is a back-end that includes information for non-human browsers.
MyKayla H

Best camera to buy for a graphic design student? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers - 0 views

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  • MyKayla H on 04 Sep 12
     
    What would the best camera for a graphic design student be? In this website there is a suggestion of a Nikon D7000
MyKayla H

What pieces of art should I use in a Graphic Design portfolio for college? - Yahoo! UK ... - 0 views

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  • When I did graphics, that was pretty much what we had to do: - Have several 2D aspects of designs - Have (atelast) 1 3D design - hence a display stand
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      Darian S on 04 Sep 12
       
      hi.
  • MyKayla H on 04 Sep 12
     
    Yup.
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