Herrie's Blog: Task 1

Role of Graphic Designer :

Graphic Designers live and breathe design, typography, color theory, and composition. They’re responsible for creating stunning visuals for both print and digital media. They work closely with art directors, creative directors, copywriters, and web developers, to translate marketing and brand strategies into comps that render beautifully in print and code.

Logos

Logo is a symbol,sign,or emblem.Human beings have used such symbols throughout time to convey a succinct message. In present times, logos tend to be graphical in nature, designed for easy recognition of an organization. It is a tool to build an identity for the organization, as part of its trademark or brand, and to generate favourable thoughts and feelings about the organization.

Icon/Symbol

A small picture that represents an object or program. Icons are very useful in applications that use windows, because with the click of a mouse button you can shrink an entire window into a small icon.This is sometimes called minimizing.To redisplay the window, you merely move the pointer to the icon and click or double click a mouse button.This is sometimes called restoringor maximizing.Icons are a principal feature of graphical user interfaces.

Websites

A site location on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization.

Corporate stationary

Properly implemented, an inviting corporate stationery package can consistently promote your image on a number of important levels. Sire Advertising has crafted eye-catching business cards, letterhead, and mailing envelopes for clients ranging from large corporate entities and nonprofit groups to startup businesses and retail shops.

Advertisment

Advertising is a form, either written or orally, that attempts to sell something whether it is an product or particular view. Advertising takes the form of pamphlets, radio, television, Internet and much more. A common misunderstanding is that advertising differs from marketing, a business practice unto itself. Advertising is the paid, impersonal, one-way marketing of persuasive information from an identified sponsor disseminated through channels of mass communication to promote the adoption of goods, services or ideas.

Book Design

Most books will have at least a front and back cover, title page, and body text but usually there will be many more parts of a book design. Explore the physical components of hardcover and softcover books as well as the design elements that make up the text portion of most books.

Brochures

A brochure is a pamphlet or booklet that describes a firm, a facility or a service. It is an advertising tool for businesses and other organizations, and is used to sell the business to potential customers. Business owners use them, to sum up, everything a customer needs to know in an easy to read, eye catching piece of paper.

Billboards

Billboard advertising is the use of signs along roadways to advertise a wide range of products, services, and causes. In general, the signs used in these roadside advertising campaigns must be over a certain size in order to be truly referred to as a billboard. In general, the sign must be large enough for a driver or passenger in a vehicle to be able to clearly read the lettering while navigating the vehicle along a road.

Product Packaging

Packaging plays an important role as a medium in the marketing mix, in promotion campaigns, as a pricing criterion, in defining the character of new products, as a setter of trends and as an instrument to create brand identity and shelf impact in all product groups.

Poster

Posters are mainly used to communicate your practical knowledge and the results of your work as well as the skills you would bring to an employment chance. Posters are also typically used as 'attention-getting' means of giving information to a passer-by.