Essays on Graphic Design

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” – Milton Glaser Graphic Designing is just like visual design or you can say Visual Communication. Designing plays a very imperative role in our...

Graphic design is such an omnipresent component of today’s world to an extent that it is truly a struggle to visualise one without it. The origins of visual communication dates back to a time of primitive rock tools and scratches on caves. The course that...

Thanks to Victor Lardent, graphic designer for British newspaper “The Times,” the essay I’m typing is in “Times New Roman. Font design is one of the many aspects of Graphic Design – my passion. As a creatively driven person, graphic design is a passion for...

This document explains the distinction and overlaps between accessibility and usability and further makes an effort to point out the importance of maintaining the focus on accessibility and usability on people of different age groups. Accessibility addresses discriminatory aspects related to the equivalent user experience...

Fixtures are the production tools which make the standard machine tool, more adaptive to work as specialized machine tools. Manufacturing industries have brought lot of revolutions in manufacturing technology, as a consequence of which several developments like CNC lathes, CNC machine center, robotics etc. have...

The Medium is the Massage, this particular quote speaks volumes towards the message McLuhan is trying to convey. The ear favors no particular point of view. You cannot filter what you hear, the noises of the environment around you demand your attention whether you like...

Artist Statement I commit to the work I perform because I want to see my ideas and imaginations become visual and tangible creations for everyone to appreciate. I want to be able to express my own personal feelings with my work that I can’t share...

Product designers must always give importance to legal and ethical considerations while designing their products. During the recent times, much attention has been directed towards toy design to remove sharp edges, small pieces that can lead to chocking and toxic materials. Companies who manufacture and...

One school that offers courses in graphic design is The Art Institute of Phoenix. Students will need to be creative, inventive, and inquisitive. The course teaches the student to combine form and function to create a visually appealing and compelling design that meets customer needs....

History and how it is evolving The history of mobile phones starts in 1946 when Bell systems introduced the first commercial mobile phone it was very large and weighed around 80 pounds it cost about $30 a month back then and you still had to...

The relationship between accessibility and usability can be a contentious issue especially with the advent of new web technologies. Does accessibility have an adverse effect on usability and vice versa and is this in any way affected by new web technologies? With the advent of...

Before a product is manufactured, marketed and then finally released it must be designed to suit the consumer’s needs. These processes of designing, modelling and prototyping have captured my interest as I believe these processes are the most important part of a product’s lifecycle. I...

Traditional romantic illustrations that had been influenced by Pre-Raphaelites. Children’s book illustrations became very popular by British illustrators. Basically, every child read the Peter Rabbit tale and seen the wonderful watercolors by Beatrix Potter. The Grimm brothers’ mysterious stories were also heavily illustrated with intriguing...

The history of 3D printers starts all the way back in the 80’s with a man called Charles Hull who invented the first commercial 3D printer in 1984 which was based on a technique called stereolithography which used a liquid photopolymer which hardens when hit...

Paul Rand Paul Rand was an American director and graphic designer, popular for his logo designs in the corporate industry, including the logo of UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice...

The year 2018 was really special and full of adventurous event year for me because I became an adult, graduated my high school and entered the University. Although all that events were interesting, living without my family in a new hometown was a real challenge...

Vibrant. Focused. Energetic. These are the words I would use to describe myself, as I know they reflect the progress I have made in my life. During my time at school, I found various topics difficult to learn. Until one day, I tried learning a...

There comes a moment when you have to stand up for your sexuality and identity. In the movie Moonlight by Barry Jenkins, Chiron, the main character, is presented through the three stages of his life as a gay African American male living in Liberty City,...

Image retouching is a very useful and excellent service among the image editing industry. Using this service the image can get more pure and perfect. All kind of spots, reflections, ideograph, impression or traces are removed for making more attractive. Image retouching is an embroidery...

When a person scrolls through professional websites, they notice logos. When a company is big enough, they may even have little cartoons on their website. A manager has to hire a graphic artist, or designer, to draw the logo. If one is an artist, this...

For your app to look fantastic, include graphics that are tailored to the screens of the specific devices. The best graphics ideally load at run time and amount to a pleasant user experience altogether. You must know your users inside and out. Their needs and...

Filament-based 3D Printing Standard home printers usually work with plastic filament. The technology behind this is usually known as a Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF). Instead this new form of 3D printing I shall cover is a new technology called Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM). In an...

Before you go and spend big money on a professional website designer, or start designing yourself, read through this article and make sure that you or your designer knows how to design a website that the search engines will like. Being a web designer myself,...