Friday, 16 March 2012

What is Graphic Design?
Graphic Design is a creative form of art which covers a lot of media, Graphic designers usually work from a client creating several different designs that fit the criteria of the clients request.
Graphic design covers a lot of areas:
Graphic illustration.
Graphic Illustration is more or less drawing on a computer, it can however be mixed media taken into Photoshop and enhanced on there.

Graphics and Photography.
Photography is an essential part of graphic design, most graphic designers take original photos to use in their work, photography is used throughout most types of graphic design.
Package Design.
Package design is a very commercial form of design that requires more sophisticated skills like precision but it still does have a creative side, typography is used in package design a lot.
Advertising/ Marketing.
Graphic design plays a heavy part in advertising and marketing graphic designers work for companies to produce designs that showcase the companies product.

Print Publication Design.

Print Publication design is a type of design used when designing magazine pages, so basically layout and editing, it incorporates many other forms of graphic design such as photography, advertisement and typography.
Logo/Typography Design.
Typography is apart of graphic design that is used in a lot of other graphic subjects, it adds a more aesthetically pleasing feel to words/information within designs.
Web Design.
Web design uses very technical programs to design websites, this not only involves creating the website initially but maintaining it and updating it regularly.
App Design.
App design is a very modern form of design it is generally used to design applications for smart phones, this applications can include games/ or helpful applications such as train timetables some apps are just smaller versions of websites that you can access on your Smartphone.
Game Design.
Games Design is a form of design in which you animate characters that can you can control. Different programs for game design include: game maker, flash and RPG VX maker.

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