Maricar Cadavicio asked:


It can be seen everywhere. It is on the face of a high school textbook. It is the sign on the street. It is on the CD cover of the latest album your have purchased. It is on the t-shirt that you are wearing or your friend is wearing. And yes, you see it as you browse through the pages of your favorite gossip magazine.

Graphic design can be found in the most simplest of places and surfaces. It can be seen from high profile venues to the most nondescript ones. Graphic design is simply the process of creating or combining visual elements, such as text and images to communicate to its viewers or readers.

It one of the most valuable and creative ways to send a message to the consumers, patrons, clients and everyone else that comprises the huge market. It is used to effectively bring a message, a concept or an idea through the audience.

While graphic design may be viewed as an all too common tool used in advertising, it actually requires a much more sophisticated level of understanding. Graphic design requires able comprehension and manipulation of information, combined with cognitive skills, aesthetics, and the like to wield an effective design.

Many businesses acquire the services of graphic design. It needs to stand out from the rest of the companies out there. And it does just this by getting acquainted with a graphic designer that can translate the company’s philosophy and values into an encompassing and identifiable image.

Graphic design can ably capture a company’s identity or vision into a complete image, both literally and figuratively. By harnessing all the visual elements of text, colors, symbols and the like, the graphic designer works to fulfill your desired goals or objectives.

Many people, whether in private practice or small enterprise, find themselves needing the services of a graphic designer at one point or another. To this, you will need to observe or remember this practical step by step guide:

1. The first thing you need to accomplish is to find a suitable graphic designer for your project. Find one that you think would fit well with your company’s taste or desired goals. A graphic designer’s portfolio can show you the range of work he or she has done and specializes in.

2. After which, set up a meeting and fully communicate your proposed ideas.

3. Specify your allocated budget

4. Give a time frame.

It would do better to have a time frame if you really want to oversee and regulate the graphic designer’s progress.

There should be submission dates for drafts, revisions and the like before the final artwork is submitted.

5. A deadline is important and you must discuss it and the terms necessary to complete the project.

6. As to prevent any possible fallout, your company should procure a well written and clear contract that states precisely how you would handle the affair. It should also cover the all too common conflicts that can arise in this type of transaction or service. It could also include the proposed schedule as to when and how often the meetings will take place.

With that accomplished, the designer would carefully study your proposed ideas and he or she will in turn do the needed research and find the best possible design that will both fit and outdo any existing designs or projects.

Graphic designs may be used for different purposes. It can be used for clothing, for internet sites and for various print materials where it is all too common. Graphic design and printing should unequivocally work together. The final artwork to be sent to production should be finalized, taking note of all the final decisions on the colors, styling, layout and materials.

Graphic designers must especially have a background on printing is the desired artwork is to be printed. An artwork or design as it appears on screen can appear different once it is on paper. Therefore, a graphic designer has to calibrate everything and know the best means how the design can be printed as precisely as possible.

The printer too, must in turn, demonstrate expertise in handling and supervising graphic designs. By carefully choosing the colors, papers and using a variety of techniques to achieve the final effect of the design, the printer can skillfully breathe life into the graphic design.

Graphic design can definitely and dramatically boost your company’s name and image overall. It will distinguish your company from others and make a lasting impression for your audiences.

Horatio Farquaar asked:


We’ve all dreamed of spending our working days reclinining back in a deck chair eating cheese sandwiches on an overcast summers day. But then we remember the mortgage/kids/wifes $500 a day drug habit and our fantasies turn to dust. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here at www.mindtap.co.uk we show in 5 easy steps how you can quit that lousy Graphic Design job and spend the rest of your life living in easy street.

Step 1: Think yourself in a better place and low and behold it will happen

This is your first step towards financial freedom. Imagine if you will yourself sat upon a huge pile of money, flinging it in the air with *** abandon and why not? Congratulations you’ve just made the first step towards making this a reality. Forget the graphic designer career you had mapped out. Let’s join the idle rich instead.

Step 2: Tell the boss what you think of him and burn those bridges!

Now its time to get some payback. Remember the time your design studio manager had you stay late and manually key in that 1oo page farming brochure text by hand and then laughed at you in your face? Right, we’ll show him who’s boss. A good way to be forcibly removed from the office and earn some extra kudos from your fellow graphic design employees is to take a dump and leave it festering away in a drawer in the bosses desk.Just wait for his reaction when he smells that sick stunt. You’re history.

Step 3: When you hit rock bottom the only way is up, up and away

No job = No money right? Wrong you putz. How do you think the tramps and beggars fill there days outside sainsburys? That’s right – drinking and robbing. It isn’t absolutely necessary to pick up a drink and drug habit at this stage but it isn’t going to harm your chances of success. Now would also be a good opportunity to get rid of the other half if you happen to have one. A spot of domestic violence after hitting the bottle is usually enough encouragement. Hey Presto, one more tiresome burdon off your back!

Step 4: Remember keep your vision and your dreams will come true

At every stage in this degenerate journey, never lose sight of that image we visuallised in step one of yourself sitting astride a huge pile of banknotes. They can take away your dignity but not your dreams. After several years of eeking out a living as a street bum its time to get this show on the road. Think hard about your previous day to day life, was there someone in your remote family or circle of friends who had a large stash of cash readily disposable? It’s time to pay them a visit with cap in hand.

Step 5: Invest wisely and you can say hello to a life of wanton abandon

Now after securing your large sum of cash from your chosen aquaintence, its prudent not to blow it all in one go on 200ft gold statues of yourself or buying an amusement park complete with zoo. No, you don’t want to be going back to the nine to five graphic design day job do you? There are a thousand ways to invest your cash so that it will sit pretty and continue giving you a steady stream or revenue for a long time. Property for example is ‘as safe as houses’ or maybe put it all in a high interest savings account. It’s taken a long time to reach your goal and hopefully the pain, ill health and loneliness have been worth it.