An Introduction to Graphic Design

An Introduction to Graphic Design

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Graphic Design, also well-known as Communication Design, is the knack and performof planning and projecting thoughts and experiences with illustration and transcript substance.

The form of the communication can either be corporal or implicit, and may include images, words or graphic forms. The experience may take place in an instant or over a long epoch of time. The work can happen at any extent, from the illustration of a single postage stamp to a national postal signage system, or from a corporate digital avatar to the sprawling and interlinked digital and physical content of an global newspaper. It can also be for any purpose, whether viable, edifying, civilizing, or supporting.

Design that is meant to be experienced in an instant is the easiest to recognize and has been around the longest. For over 100 years, designers have set type, form, and image on posters, advertisements, packages, and other printed stuff, in addition to information visualizations and graphics for newspapers and magazines. Motion graphics are similarly pre-determined and crafted, but are meant to be experienced over a fixed time span, for instance the opening credits of a movie or an online video meant to go along with a newspaper article.

The design of books and magazines has a long history, too. Whether corporal or digital, these are objects that are meant to be enjoyed over time, during which the reader has clout over the pace and sequence of the experience. In books, the content generally comes before the design, while in magazines, the design is a composition that looks forward to written and visual content that hasn’t yet been created. 

Some business websites or display catalogues also fit in this category, as do digital or corporal museum displays that show information that doesn’t change. All have fixed substance, but the user or reader determines their own path through the material.

Many designers also fabricate systems that are meant to be experienced over time, but aren’t restrained to the making of objects. Way finding -a form of environmental graphics, submits to the branding and signage applied throughout and on buildings. 

Where as each sign or symbol in a public or private building is an application of design, no doubt they are all part of a larger system within the building. 


The design of the system that signifies the relationships between all of those parts, is where the designer brings value. Likewise, while all of the relics of a commercial or institutional brand, such as a card, sign, logo, or an advertisement are individual expressions of design, how those are practiced together and over time is the design work. No part of it has been formed without considering the others, or without thinking through how a targeted customer will encounter and then develop a relationship with that brand.

Designers are also liable for interactive designs where the content is fluid, now and then changing minute to minute, as well as interfaces that help users pilot through complex digital experiences. This work sets apart itself by adding another element: reacting to the actions of the viewer. Perspective design for web and mobile is the most tangible example of content-driven work in this area, including publication website, mobile app, and blog. Some design involves the presentation of streaming information, also accredited as data visualization. Other designers labor on digital products, those are digital services or platforms that can be brought to market. Product design for web and mobile is allied to software design. Occasionally different designers work on the user interface design (UI), which mostly refers to the individual layouts of pages, and the user experience design (UX), or the total experience of the user as they move through a website or app.

Type design holds aspects of almost all of these things. While the form of a single letter has a meaning, a typeface, like a brand, is also composed of the relationships between characters that work together to create meaning. And similar to software, typefaces are licensed and can be installed on individual computers. Depending on the scale of the context in which a designer works, the work may take account of one, some, or all of these things in the course of a year. Superior companies, agencies, teams, or studios might lean towards specialization, while smaller studios and groups might need to have each individual capability, if not a proficient, in multiple areas.

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