Graphic design

The Impact of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design Introduction Throw your Mac out! Get with the times and get hands on! Handcrafting design with handmade elements is back and is here to stay, especially in graphic design and typography. Since the economic crisis people’s interest in vintage and all things handmade has surged and is still becoming increasingly popular. Where were the first sign of handcrafted type? From days of the past we didn’t have all this technology baffling us and…

Nutrition, Design (Interior and Graphic), and Journalism. Nutrition, is a great field to find work in, not only is it growing, but becoming more needed with…

Career Exploration Paper For someone who works in the field of Graphic Design, they wouldn’t call it a job, It’s more of a hobby if you are truly passionate. It lets you explore your creative side and let’s you see what you can create. You’re always doing something different, it’s never the same thing. That’s what interests me the most, a lot of jobs have the same kind of routine. Thinking about how I would need to do the same thing over and over again just makes me sick. Even though it isn’t…

Design is born when individuals revolt against the norms and rules placed on them by history, artist, and the want and needs of society in any given time period. Learning about these limitations and their origins in an attempt to change what is already set in stone, this is the life style of a designer; to think outside of the box while considering the parameters onto which one feels comfortable, able, and ready. Often going against rules on purpose to express freedom and demand change, which…

Design Process An element of graphic design that could have a positive effect on students was design process. The design process assisted graphic designers with processing information and ideas. The graphic design process introduced how to think more like an explosion of ideas than linear line of one idea. Linear thinking was about one idea and attaching to that idea. While, lateral thinking was trying multiple ideas at once and changing and improving them over time. Hernandez and Prathibha…

Growing a Graphic Design Business and Customer Loyalty A growing body of research on building a graphic design business is an indicator that is a topic of importance to the business world. Upteen amounts of small businesses are working towards having their companies grow and become a well developed franchise. A extensive amount of researchers and educators are demanding a way to identify the certain variables their business can have, in order to gain more clients and have a repeat of customers…

Graphic design is a broad topic that has the power to change the world. Public information design is the least glamorous side of graphic design. It is usually the last thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Graphic Design. AIGA medalist Sylvia Harris has impacted the graphic design community in ways that have inspired others to strive to change the world around them. As an African American woman who was raised during the 60s, she grew up with a unique perspective and offered something…

inhabited, the furniture used, the surrounding graphic design, has all been influenced by the aesthetics and the ideology of Modernist design. The Modernists believed in technology as the key means to achieve social improvement and in the machine as a symbol of that aspiration. They fostered a utopian desire to create a better world. These principles were frequently combined with social and largely left-leaning political beliefs which held that design and art could, and should, transform…

information could be proficiently replicated, thus simplifying the dissemination procedure. Print design; however, are fundamentally constrained by their physical nature. Enter the Internet, arguably modern society’s supreme technological advancement, with its ability to digitally re-contextualize the written word. The web generated an outburst in production, self-published content, and fresh forms of machine designs. John Allsopp’s prescient quote “The control which designers know in the print…

“Creativity is more than an inborn talent; it is a hard earned skill, and like any other skill, it improves with practice” (Lupton, Ellen. Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming. New York: Princeton Architectural ;, 2011. Print). As designers, we grow through our practices. It’s important to never fully dive in without learning the possible outcomes of one’s design. In relation, it would be as if you were diving into a pool without knowing if it were too shallow or too deep. Discovering…