Intro to Graphic Design
Welcome back everyone to one of my amazing blogs that you enjoy so much and I keep writing them for absolute no academic reason at all. Today’s topic is going to be about graphic design and how it’s important in the web design aspect which allows you to be creative, expressive, and helps to promote as well as branch out your business to other people. So, let’s get into the topic right away!
What is Graphic Design and why is it important?
I like to define graphic design to be a type of art which allows you to create any masterpiece using different elements of your choice in any shape or form, but the actual definition is “a craft where professionals create visual content like typography, page layout, or visual hierarchy to communicate messages to a specific audience” Whether it be drawing, 3D-printing, videos, animations, posters, editing photos, etc. The reason why it can be important, as said before, because help spread a clear message or purpose to a certain group of people and it can be a great opportunity for businesses to creating a logo or designing posters or any creative process in Graphic Design.
What elements go into graphic design?
With Graphic Design, there also comes the different types of elements that goes into creating an online visual of art and masterpiece, so let’s look at those elements together:
Lines – Lines are the basic structure and building blocks when it comes to creating structure into your graphic design process. There can be different version of lines like being continuous or broken, curved or straighten, smooth or zigzagged and beyond.
Shapes – Shapes are created using line in different ways, they can be geometric (drawn with computers or rulers) or organic (drawn freehand). When it comes to using shapes for creating logos or anything else, you have to line it up to get the right symmetry and alignment.
Form – Forms allows for your shapes to be three dimensional as well as being organic or geometric which have the same properties as shapes.
Texture – Texture is all about the quality and feel on how your design works. From making your own patterns, adding some in lines, creating soft or hard texture depending on what design goes by, make sure you have the right tools.
Color – Color is a big thing when it comes to not only graphic design, but art itself, it gets you your own color palette and something people are able to recognize you by through those various colors. The color wheel allows for people to select different types of color patterns like complementary colors, analogous colors, triad colors, or monochromatic. It can also introduce you to the section of warmer colors (red, orange, yellow) or cooler colors (blue, purple/violet, pink, green) it matters on the vibe and personality you want your specific target audience to know you by.
Typography – Typography is another important element in graphic design when it comes to choosing a font, you have to keep in mind of the typeface that is use which means you need to make variations of the different sizes, weights and thickness of the font. There are three properties when customizing your font:
- Leading: adjusting the space between lines of text
- Tracking: condensing or expanding the gap between characters
- Kerning: changing the spacing between specific characters
If you want to learn more about the different types of elements, check out:
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud (for those you don’t know) is a software that allows the use of different graphic designing software’s like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Lightroom, After effects, InDesign, Audition, etc. It provides many other resources like apps, web services, and resources for creative projects like:
- Photography
- Video Editing
- User Experience (UX) Design
- Drawing and painting
- Social Media
There many other ways with going about using Adobe Creative Cloud for creative and expressive masterpieces you can make using this software, you just need you imagination and a specific topic that specific people will be interested. So now that we’ve talked a little bit about Adobe Creative Cloud, let’s talk about the applications that allow for us to create different art projects and works.
Photoshop
Photoshop is an application which allows edits to different images with ease whether it be with precise clicking selections, adjusting colors instantly with canvas controls, and/or perform complex edits more quickly with smart workflow suggestions
Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro is another application which allows you to edit and trim videos, add effects, mix audio, animate titles, magically add new frames to your clips, and supercharge your workflow with AI.
Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets you design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision, as well as time-saving features like Repeat for Patterns or Global Edits.
There are many, MANY other different applications on Adobe Creative Cloud that allows you create other design and graphic processes which allows for different groups of people to see what kind of art people have created. Here’s the Adobe official website if you would like to learn more about the site as well as the many applications that can be used for graphic design:
https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
Conclusion of Graphic Design
In conclusion, graphic design is such a important and inspiring concept used in web development, because it allows for people (or businesses) to create a certain form of art to grab the attention of specific audience to give them a clear indications of the type of vibe and message they’re trying to portray in an expressive way. Art is such a interesting concept and it doesn’t have to be limited, depending on what kind of art is in your interest, you can create anything that you want. If you would like to see another one of my blogs, check out my blog on one of the most annoying website I’ve found on the Internet: