Eva
What type of things do Graphic Designers do?
I love the arts, and I think this would be one of the best career paths for me, but I'm not exactly sure what Graphic Designers do. I had the opportunity to be shown the studio of a graphic designer who mostly did cartoon characters, but I know there are different kinds of Graphic Designers, I just don't know what they do. #graphic-design #web-design #graphic-designer
4 answers
Leeanne Donovan
Leeanne’s Answer
There are many different areas to get into with Graphic Design. I myself am in graphic design school and have been exposed to the many areas that come with being a graphic artist.
1) Designing marketing and other materials (Posters, signs, business cards, resumes, invitations, books, magazines, etc.)
2) Branding - Creating logos, word marks, monograms, and company related correspondence, etc.
3) Printing - Layout for book and magazines, colour coding for print
4) UI/UX design for apps and video games
5) Character design
6) Typography (creating typfaces)
7) Web design
A lot of possibilities and ways to make your mark in this industry :)
Thank you! this was very helpful!
Eva
Martijn Wiertz
Martijn’s Answer
A graphic designer can add value anywhere there is content (text, images, shapes etc.) that needs to get a message across. You're not necessarily creating the content, but you're organizing it in the way that best fits the objective.
One basic example from my own world: a colleague wrote a technical document describing how the analytics work in one of our products. That was a 90 page document of pretty much non-stop text and technical diagrams. It was really hard to see where one topic stopped and the next started, hard to find back a particular place in the document and so on. The document was making it really hard to reach its goal of transferring the knowledge to the reader.
So I took his document and "designed" it to address those issues - with really simple tools: using Styles in Word for consistent formatting of the text so similar content is displayed in a similar way. Using some line breaks and page breaks to visually break up the content into logical chunks. Clear chapter and paragraph formatting to add more structure to the content. Nothing fancy but it helped the document better achieve its goal.
My added value was not in my drawing skills or my artisticness, but in my ability to analyze the content, recognize the inherent structure and then use the principles of visual information processing to organize the content in a way that's more helpful to the reader.
Graphic design = visual problem solving
phillip rasy
phillip’s Answer
Graphic designers creates sales and marketing materials, Design website help with different marketing campaign create logo.
Razan Abdo
Razan’s Answer
Visual identity such as letterhead, business cards, brand guides, logos.
Marketing materials: flyers, brochures, postcards, one-sheets, posters.
Product packaging and labels.
Presentations.
Shirt & Apparel designs.
Reports.
Illustrations & clip-art.