You really, really like Comic Sans and think it is perfect typeface for all your business documents.
I don’t need graphics. I just want a company logo, brochure, website and trade show booth.
Joe, the IT guy, knows how to stretch and squish photos and place them into PowerPoint to make cool trifolds we can just print out on our desktop printer.
Because you KNOW that people will look at your ad longer if you fill every inch of it with all the information they ever needed to know about your product.
You have all the special effects you could ever need in Microsoft PowerPoint. You know, like rainbow gradients and bevel emboss.
Microsoft Office comes with great clip art.
Your neighbor’s niece is taking a Photoshop class in Junior College and has offered to design your website for free. (Did you see the sample of her totally awesome work included in this blog?)
White space is bad. Those pesky designers are always wasting valuable space that could be filled with star bursts announcing the newness of our latest product updates.
You know that justifying your paragraphs enhances the visual rivers created with double spacing after a period. You do this on purpose to bring back fond memories of fishing trips with your dad.
Those darn designers always want to fix them therefore ruining the effect you so carefully created.
Kinko’s doesn’t suck. They do a rip-roaring job on all my important collateral.
Default 12pt Times New Roman type with auto leading is easier for my great-grandmother to read than any of those fancy fonts designers use. Read more:
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Free Marketing Graphic: DEFINITION
"Since prehistoric times, people have searched for ways to give visual form to ideas and concepts, to store knowledge in graphic form, and to bring order and clarity to information. Over the course of history, these needs have been filled by various people including scribes, printers, and artists. It was not until 1922, when the outstanding book designer William Addison Dwiggins coined the term ‘graphic design’ to describe his activities as an individual who brought structural order and visual form to printed communications, that an emerging profession received an appropriate name."MEGGS. Philip, B.A - History of Graphic Design
"Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas."Jessica Helfand - AIGA What is graphic design?
"The practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website."Dictionary.com
"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."About.com
Graphic design is the most universal of all the arts. It is all around us, explaining, decorating, identifying; imposing meaning on the world... Without graphic design's process and ingredients - structure and organisation, word and image, differentiation - we would have to receive all our information by the spoken word. We would enter another Dark Ages, a thousand years of ignorance, prejudice, superstition and very short lifespans.Quentin Newark - What Is Graphic Design?
"Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas."Jessica Helfand - AIGA What is graphic design?
"The practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website."Dictionary.com
"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."About.com
Graphic design is the most universal of all the arts. It is all around us, explaining, decorating, identifying; imposing meaning on the world... Without graphic design's process and ingredients - structure and organisation, word and image, differentiation - we would have to receive all our information by the spoken word. We would enter another Dark Ages, a thousand years of ignorance, prejudice, superstition and very short lifespans.Quentin Newark - What Is Graphic Design?
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