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Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers - I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and business books.
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A Basic Overview of Design Principles - Applying basic design principles to your package will avoid design disasters and enable you to create an elegant and communicative piece of work
Defining the Principles of Design Through Metaphor or Allegory - Generally, all the principles of design apply to any piece you may create. How you apply those principles determines how effective your design is in conveying the desired message and how attractive it appears. There is seldom only one correct way to apply each principle.
What is Graphic Design - Design Principles Review
What is graphic design? from AIGA Career Guide
Digital Dreamer: What is Graphic Design? - Graphic design basically is visual problem solving using text and/or graphical elements. Your aim is to create something that is pleasing to the eye, and gets the attention of the viewer. But things can't just look cool. They have to work as well.
What is Graphic Design - A YouTube Video - A great video explaining the basics of graphic design.
What is Graphic Design? - Graphic Designers create books, websites, magazines, film titles, catalogs, typefaces, signage systems, television graphics, posters and postcards. From complex identity programs to single logos, graphic designers give a face and a “visual voice” to retail and cultural enterprises, to entertainment, manufacturing and service industries, governmental and political interests. Simply put, graphic designers give meaningful visual form to content in all media: from print to screen; business cards to billboards; computer interfaces to movie screens.
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition - Find out more about becoming a graphic designer, including such points as what the nature of the Work is, what sort of Training and advancement there is, employment issues, the future job outlook, projections data, earnings, OES data, related occupations, and more.
Graphic Design Basics - An entire design based on the basics of graphic design
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Design Basics for Desktop Publishing - The elements
and principles of graphic design
Get a better understanding of the basics of graphic design
by studying the elements and principles of graphic design
that govern effective design and page layout.
Graphic Design Basics - This series of hueristics will provide learners with the building blocks of graphic design. In our fast paced world where sound bytes tell stories and information doubles every 18 months, effective communication is critical.
Graphic Design Information - What You Want to Know
Graphic Design Principles and Rules - Your graphic design strategy needs principles and rules...
Graphic Design Principles Index - A free course. Short, illustrated guides exemplifying principles of good graphic design, with tips on balancing the weight of graphic elements, bright or saturated colors, choosing appropriate typefaces, color balance, creating a rhythm, individual color idiosyncrasies, maintaining visual consistency , organizing elements, organizing intervals , perceptual disabilities, positive and negative space, readability, shape and density of type, the idiosyncrasies of color contrast, the social and gender connotations of colors, using typefaces and color consistently, using color to create memorable moods, using graphics to supplement non-visual information , using icons for recognizable concepts and more
Graphic Design Principles - a concise, text-based guide to well-accepted graphic design principles, covering alignment, contrast, visual consistency, proximity, text & fonts, colour & atmosphere and more
Graphic Design Theory - Here is a short introduction to graphic design theory
What is Design? - A nice article on what design is.
What is Graphic Design - Graphic design is the process and art of combining text and graphics and communicating an effective message in the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication.
Become a Graphic Designer - Design Careers & Design Education Advice from Professional Designer - Elle Phillips wrote this article full of advice to individuals who are looking to become a Graphic Designer. This article is an informative article to help many other people who also wish to become a Graphic Designer.
How to Become a Graphic Designer: A Designer’s Point of View - One of the graphic designers who visits All Graphic Design decided to write an article about becoming a Graphic Designer.
The Importance of a Graphic Designer - Illustrators and graphic designers are practical artists who put their talents at the service of commercial clients.
How to Become a Graphic Designer - You may be one of the many individuals who look at a logo, an advertisement, or perhaps a website and wonder how it may have been created. Behind all of those magazine ads and brochures lies a graphic designer.
How to Transition from Graphic Designer to Web Designer - So what’s the best way of making the transition from graphic to web designer?
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In our last article we presented some nifty examples of what you can do with Photoshop in creating your own 3D objects. There are literally thousands of PS objects that you can download from the Internet, but the process of making your own Photoshop 3D items is not only fun [...]
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3D Photoshop Object Projects and Tutorials - Part I
Practice Makes Perfect
After a while, it seems that plain old 2D Photoshop images are lacking when it comes to creativity for some of your graphic design projects. Maybe you have thought about doing more 3D work but didn’t know where to start. The following Photoshop tutorials can help you create some nice objects. All that [...]
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Presentation and Eye Appeal
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The Basics
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The “hard” skills as described in our last article, What Employers Are Looking for in Graphic Designers - Part I, gave a list of the skill sets that graphic [...]
What Employers Are Looking For In Graphic Designers - Part I
What You Need To Qualify
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Graphic Design and Effective Messaging - Part II
Graphic Design Is Messaging
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In our last article we quoted Marshal McLuhan saying, “The medium is the message” or [...]
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