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The Relationship of Web and Graphic Designs

Posted by :admin On : August 2, 2011
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Category: Graphical Designing, Graphical Imaging, Graphics Design Tips

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As previously mentioned in other posts, web design is a format subsection of graphic design. However, web design as it pertains to graphic design and web design in general are two different things, although they can be interchanged at times depending on the specific situation.

When a person wants a web designer, they want someone to create their website. This means that the person needs to have coding experience as well as experience with something other than graphic design software. Freelance web designers are the ones that actually carry out website creation.

However, a web design graphic designer is something else. This is a person that is in charge of actually designing the website. This means that they figure out the page layout, typography and create all of the original graphic design work for the website. A web design graphic designer might also have the knowledge necessary to go ahead and create the actual website after that, but even so that does not change the fact that the two occupations are defined differently.

If you need help thinking about it, think of it as being analogous to the relationship between concept artists in advertising firms and the tape crews that actually create the ad in the end.

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Choose the Right Graphic Design Format

Posted by :admin On : August 1, 2011
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Category: Graphical Designing, Graphical Imaging, Graphics Design Tips

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If you are truly interested in becoming an overall complete graphic designer, you are going to have to work in multiple graphic design formats when you create your different graphic designs. There are different formats for different types of design and for most of these formats there are specialized skill sets and experiences that you need to have down before you can hope to compete in the industry at large.

For example, one subsection of graphic design that you see a lot in your day-to-day life has to do with the newspaper. The layout of the newspaper is in and of itself a challenge of graphic design, especially when you consider the overall page and the positions of the different elements on the page. Likewise, the creation of very beautiful text (i.e. typography) is another format of graphic design that you are going to have to get used to. Many of these formats are interchangeable between the online and offline worlds however, so getting used to a new graphic design format might be easier than you think.

To give you an introduction into the wide world of different graphic design formats, the next posts will cover four of the major ones, some of which may have already been mentioned in passing on this blog before.

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