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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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A Guide to Photography and Taking Pictures for Graphic Designers
As a graphic designer, sooner or later you will need to take a picture. If you are fortunate enough to work for a company which supplies you with a camera, use it if that camera is good enough. If it is not, find one that is.
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Social Networking Communities for Graphic Designers & Web Designers
Are you a graphic designer looking for a place to fit in online? Well, I have put together a comprehensive list of community sites for graphic designers and web designers.
50+ Vector Clip Art Sites for Editable Graphics
One of the drawbacks of most clip art is that you cannot edit these images in Adobe Illustrator or other vector art programs such as CorelDraw. The other major drawback is that you can not resize rasterized clip art without pixelating them. Because of these two major setbacks, many graphic designers prefer vector graphics and clip art. That is why I have taken the time to put together this list of 50+ vector clip art sites.
How to Choose Fonts : A Guide to Choosing Fonts for Graphic Designers
Ben Baker has put together this guide to choosing fonts for your design layouts. I hope that Ben's Fonts Selection Guide helps you out...if it does, please pass the link on to other graphic designers.
Graphics Compression Tips for Print Design Projects
Although compressing images isn't as essential for print design as it is for web design, being able to compress graphics certainly comes in handy on some occasions.Hopefully the following article will help you with tips for print design compression.
A Guide to Binding Multi-Page Documents for Graphic Designers
Binding is mostly an issue where multi-page documents are concerned, like magazines, books and multi-page event programs. Most multi-page event programs are center-stapled (saddle stitch), as are most magazines. Only a few high-end magazines, like National Geographic, take the extra expense of having a glued binding. Briefly, here's a list of the most common kinds of binding.
Numbering Pages in a Single-Fold Layout Graphic Design Project
Numbering a multi-page single-fold document is anti-intuitive to many people. It does not make sense to most people if they just glance at the numbering pattern.
All Graphic Design Resources is a Directory Full of Tools for Graphic Designers
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