Graphic Design Portfolio

College or No College In graphic design there are two worlds, self-taught and degree holders and with this comes the debate, is getting a college degree a must or is being self-taught just as acceptable. This debate is as hot as the sun is and there is no slowing it down. Being a graphic designer does not just involve using a computer and creating some neat looking graphics, it goes much deeper and gets complicated during some points. Both have upsides and advantages, however, there are several

Graphic design is very essential in our everyday life.  It is something that pulls in the advertisement and attracts our eyes for visual. It presents in everywhere that can be found in newspaper, magazines, books, internet sites, posters, products, arts. Heller and Vienne (p.15) reported that “most graphic design works, are not only using specialized graphics and multimedia software, to communicate ideas that inspire, messages, or beguile consumers.” In fact, graphic design is a complicate work

interest in the graphic design field, you have probably faced the dilemma yourself or have seen them agonize over the decision to go to college. Graphic design is a fairly new field, but especially in the past decade the career field has gained momentum with the increasing improvements with technology and the need for logo branding, advertisements, and web or app platform aesthetics. Some prefer to call the degree Mass Communications or Digital Media because of the relation with Graphic Design as designing

inspired by my mother, who was an artist and also a writer. She was the one who encouraged me to pursue my talents as a designer though a career in design wasn 't something glamorous or high earning in my society. As I grew older, my passion for design grew stronger. I wanted to find out how things were done, I was curious how they were able to make graphics move. With my O Levels results in hand, I enrolled into a fairly decent art school. I worked hard those 3 years gaining as much experience and exposure

is an argument, there is always a counter-argument. Is it morally right for graphic designers to design something so persuading? In "The Teaching of Art as Social Revolution" by Vincent Lanier,he argues that it is morally right for graphic designers to design anything. To begin with this, it is important to know that fine arts and popular arts like photography, motion pictures, graphic design in advertising, fashion design- are the same and serve the same purpose to the community which is to reflect

Around the beginning of every year, those in the graphic design industry ponder the popularity and viability of logo and design trends to come. Comments surface that gain ground in Twitter and become viral, like that from Jeff Fisher, creative identity engineer with LogoMotives, who indicated earlier this year that the simple act of identifying something as a design trend makes it something to be avoided. He dubbed his remark his "annual design trend comment." The SciFi channel 's recent move in

Graphic designers are the people who make logos and pictures for companies. For example, some graphic designers might make the picture for a restaurant logo. If a picture is made badly, and doesn't attract you to it, that company is probably not going to get a lot of negative effects on their company. Graphic designers should be good with computers and art. Many graphic designers develop things for advertising related things, and they need to create things that really stand out. Most graphic designers

pursue graphic design in college, so that eventually I can get hired to design book covers, movie posters, song album covers, or something of that sort. Many people fail to understand the artistic ability that is helpful in the field of graphic design. Part

The design of Jared Granger site has a clean, simple homepage that shows his name and his brief introduction. This site has his projects name with the full image of a project on each page with the black box, “View Projects”, which are directed to his projects pages. Also, the design has “Contact” link for people to contact him and his social network links for people to view his profile page and projects. These projects have shown the designers’ creativity and ideas in typography, logo, and corporate

Career in Graphic Arts A career in graphic design is perfect for a creative individual who has a sense of design. "A graphic designer is one who creates ideas that are expressed in words and/or pictures, and generally solves problems of visual communication," says Paul Rand, a professional designer (23). Employment in this profession is projected to increase 29% by the year 2006, which is the highest of any career according to a study done by the American Institute of the Graphic Arts (3).