Submitted by: Bhupender Saharan

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. Today’s graphic designers often use desktop publishing software and techniques to achieve their goals.”

Graphic design is all around us. It is in our morning paper, magazines, products labels, candy wrappers, on our commute to work, and on the cover of our favorite books.

Lots of things to be create in this field like brochures, tickets, business cards, T-shirts, signs, logos, book layout (typesetting), business cards, posters, magazine covers, magazine layout, tickets, importing advertisements into a newspaper, websites, cd covers, dvd interactivity elements, Internet banners, flash animation, web interfaces, Powerpoint presentations, and more.

There are many software in the market like CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Quark etc. all are vector software and used in doing many types of jobs according to clients.

Creativity is a very must factor for those who want to built his career in this field. This doesn t mean that you have to be loaded with all skills of a great artist? It can help you, but it’s not a must requirement. If you are able to paint and sketch then it can help you, but the most important thing is that have a talent of problem solving and you can arrange designs in a creative way. Generally we find that a lots of Graphic designers enjoying photography as a primary hobby and they can t sketch but still they are amazing designers. It’s all about visualization skills.

Now we are going to categorize these important skills:Before starting a good designer should have some skills so that the output will be attractive and productive. Here are some start to finish skills that a designer must have:

Visual Art: Before graphics elements applied to the design, these elements must be originated from visual skills.

Typography: Typographic keeps important part in a good design, it all about font representations and modifying them into some specific illustrations. Length of types(fonts) size and placements etc matters in a professional design.

Page Layout: Page layout is also very important skill here again, because it will design the size and schema of the layout of the design on which all graphics will be placed beautifully and with great visualization.

Interface design: The goal of user interface design is to make the user’s interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user goals

Print Making: Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing on paper and other materials or surfaces.

We can categorize graphic designing fields under some industries:

Web Design: Website design, while a relatively new industry, is now an essential part of a company s image, brand, and advertising, marketing and public relations campaigns.

Book Design: Book design can range from creating elaborate covers to working on detailed lengthy layouts.

Illustration: Illustration, while often closely related to graphic design, is for many a separate profession.

Branding: To create a brand for a company is to create their image, and to promote that image with campaigns and visuals.

Now at last we are coming to scope of graphics designing: There are many career paths from which we can choose any best one according to us. Graphic designers

may choose to work as book designers, in web design, branding, illustration, logo design or often a combination of several fields. Graphic Designing is the most oriented job at present. Because now a days publicity is must for a company to get attention in the market regarding their products. For this concern, companies need well designed artwork or advertising strategy in various fields like print media and web Services. It means to grow their business they need a help of graphic designers by other agency or any designer’s firm. So, surely MORE SCOPE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS presently and afterward in the future. The scope for Graphic Designing is good, the word Graphic Design can be catered to 3D Modeling in Architecture, Web Designing in the IT field, Maya in the movie field so on so forth. There are many courses related to graphic designing where you can become an expert.

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