Graphic Design

Graphic design is the art or profession of visual communication that combines images,words, and ideas to convey information to an audience. A graphic designer is then responsible for arranging and using those elements on different types of media; such as a poster or website. An interesting opinion also holds for most graphic design workers; because they are being valued by their employers and among ourselves!!!

From reading about graphic design I am able to pick the good from the bad; flyers, advertisements, logos, etc. I have learnedso much already within this course on how to create anything that someone views more acceptable to ones thoughts and ideas. With the knowledge I have already gained and intend to gain it will be extremely helpful to me once I graduate in December from Albright and move into a new career path. I will now be able to post a stronger resume, create blogs on employers web sites, look for job postings on the web; all by using the CRAP principals.

I now analyze everything that grabs my eyes attention. I never put together where graphic design was presented.
In logos, book designs, billboards, product packaging, and greeting cards. Newspapers even present their articles with some sort of graphic design no matter how simple it may be, it’s there to help catch the eye and increase the value of what you are looking at or reading.

Print vs. web can be compared in major topic areas such as: media, audience, layout, color, technology, and careers. When reading and comparing the two I believe that print is a better option to go. However with the web you are able to access whatever you need wherever you are at, any given point of the day. As a graphic designer it would be interesting because your work is always accessable to anyone. With print the differnce is that there is more money to be made because of the copies you provide to sell vs. not the number of hits your website would get. Print is more developed, by creating books for over 500 years; where as the web has only been established for a number of years and still continuing to improve.