1. In your own words, what is graphic design and what are a few common examples of visual products that graphic designers create? Post an example of three different types of graphic design products, and describe what the purpose of each is. Describe what aspects of the designs make them visually compelling?
Graphic Design is to make designs on multimedia programs and convey ideas visually in the best way possible. The designs are drawn by hand or created through computer software. These designs can be in the form of an image, typography, and video which are used to communicate ideas.
Movie Poster Design
The main purpose of a movie poster is to publicize and inform the audience of an upcoming film through important information such as release date, actors and particularly with reference to age. I really like the body language and facial expression of the movie poster that makes the audience curious about the movie.
Banner Design
The purpose of a banner is to announce a specific product and draw attention to as many people as possible. It is the ideal way to attract all the people who may be interested in a particular object from the store but are uninformed from the online marketing and is not a regular customer of the internet. They can easily be attracted towards that product. I really like the banner with a huge percentage of sales. The designs make visually compelling as it manages to attract the human eye with just a single look and this banner is attractive enough to gain attention because it shows up 50% off which is a big sale for customers.
Book Cover Design
The purpose of a book cover is to attract the readers and then get those readers interested enough to check the book and learn more about the book, which helps the author to get more book sales. I like this book cover because the design is very eye catching to me as it has both writing and drawing in a creative way.
2. Post an example of an innovative image-based design and describe what attracted you to this design. An image-based design is a graphic design piece that is completely based on an image. (i.e. photograph, illustration, drawing, painting, etc.)
Plant-Based Primer: The Beginner’s Guide to a Plant-Based Diet
I was attracted to this design because designers created this image to represent the idea of diet chart that humans need to follow for good health. Images are extremely powerful and convincing tools of communication. It conveys not only information about food items but also diet charts for human’s good health. This picture inspired me to follow that chart for my daily life.
3. Post an example of a type and image design and describe what is the center of attention or area of emphasis. (The area that stands out and that you look at first; in other words, the focal point!) A type and image design includes both an image(s) and type. For example, a poster, billboard, magazine cover, etc.
The center of attention or area of emphasis is “Jazz Concert” because in the poster “Jazz Concert” is written in a big font which shows that the people who created this poster want others to know about the concert event.
4. Post an example of a logo or symbol that you find visually appealing and describe how the form of the design expresses its content. (In other words, how does the logo or symbol symbolically communicate a message?)
Symbol is a way of exchanging messages between the sender and the receiver. Target logo is attractive to me because when I look at it, I feel like something is moving from something broad to deeper. I think the logo or symbol symbolically communicates a message that chose the object wisely. I think this symbol is attractive for using it in a company because the company logo should be simple but catchy to customers. Target logo is catchy to me so I think this logo is attractive.
5. Carefully study the AIGA, the Professional Association for Design, and described five (5) things that you’ve learned from studying the web site.
Five things that I have learned about 2019 Design Census from studying the web site are
- 2019 Design Census developed by Google and AIGA and it’s open to the public for five weeks started on April 1, 2019.
- 2019 Design Census did a survey question for improvement.
- 2019 Design Census research on the topic to get a more accurate picture of the current state of design.
- 2019 Design Census created a code called Python code that allowed them to work with both significant and numerical data.
- 2019 Design Census uses the data to compare the answers.
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