Design and Layout, Graphic Design, Web Design

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:51:37 +0000

Within the Design and Layout, Graphic Design, Web Design area you’ll find a wide range of annotated links to Web design tutorials, design and layout principles and tutorials, graphic design principles and tutorials, tips, and resources, and cross-platform and cross-browser issues. You’ll also find helpful Web design style guides and Web sites devoted to Web design and layout, graphic design, design and layout, and related design topics.

In addition, you’ll find recommended books on graphic design, design and typography, typography, Web design business, graphic design business, freelancing, Web design and layout, and more.

Fonts
Within the Fonts category you’ll find annotated high quality resources to many of the best font sites available for free fonts, shareware fonts, dingbats, font foundries, and font collections, along with font-related programs and utilities, font-specific search engines, and related information.

Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style.

Graphics can be functional or artistic. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may become blurred.

Logo Design
Within the Logo Design section below you’ll find a wide range of annotated links to logo design tutorials, logo design principles and tutorials, typography and logo design, and more. You’ll also find helpful Web sites and blogs devoted to logo design and related design topics.

In addition, you’ll find recommended books on logo design, logo design and typography, typography, and related topics.

Typography
Within the Typography section you’ll find helpful annotated links to Web site typography articles, tutorials, resources, tools, discussion lists and typography organizations, and typography book reviews and recommendations. Typography articles and tutorials topics include typography in general, Web site typography, such as choosing fonts for web sites, accessibility and typography, readability, white space, and typography, CSS, typography, and CSS typography techniques, design and typography for Web sites, image replacement techniques (IFR, sIFR, swfIR, others), and font design and creation. The typography tools section include typography and fonts software, such as font creation software, font conversion software, font management software programs and utilities, viewers, utilities, software and online tools to help identify fonts, printed and online font reference charts, cross-browser, cross-platform font charts and references, and more related to typography in general, but especially Web site typography. You’ll also find short reviews of recommended books on typography, fonts, and lettering.

what makes good graphic design?

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:22:25 +0000

Is it a combination of the right colors? Perhaps a lot of white space? Could it be a particular style of art? In reality, it can be any of these factors, none of these factors, or even a variety of other factors. Graphic design, unlike art, generally should not be a subjective thing. Graphic design has a business purpose and that being the case, means that it should accomplish a particular goal. That may mean driving sales, promoting a political agenda, educating, or whatever applies to your business model.

Experienced graphic design companies, freelance graphic designers and in-house graphic designers know how to craft your marketing materials to do just that. They know when it’s a good idea to use a lot of copy to explain a complex message and when it’s a good idea to use just a little bit of copy to get your message across quickly. They know when to use a rich, textured design and when to use a clean modern design to stir up the emotions of your target market and incite them to take action. They know when to use a subtle color pallet, when to use a vibrant, eye-popping color pallet, and when to use a combination of the two. They know what images are going to work best with your designs to convey the image that you are looking for. More importantly, they know the reasons behind the decisions they make. Many other businesses are very black and white where in situation “1″ you take action “A” and situation “2″ you take action “B” but with graphic design, you must take human emotion and experience into account as well. More than a few businesses have learned this the hard way when using inexperienced graphic designers or even doing their own graphic design to save a few dollars. On the other side of this coin, as a start-up or small company, there is no need to invest in the largest ad agencies because even if you can afford their prices, you will be such a small account for them that you won’t get the attention you need. By investing in the right graphic design company or freelancer, you’ll generally see greater results more quickly at the best possible price.

So what is good graphic design? It’s something that conveys the image that you want for your company and accomplishes a particular goal.

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Design and Layout, Graphic Design, Web Design

what makes good graphic design?