Graphic Design

Understanding Graphic Design

1. There are lots of different disciplines within graphic design. typography is one of these, this is lettering and words, graphic designers tend to make different type so that it has some relevance to that word or the meaning. logos are another discipline of graphic design, the most recognisable logos are things like mcdonalds, nike  and different social networking sites (facebook, twitter, instagram ect... ). graphic designers create things for advertisements like flyers, billboards and the most recent thing is apps for phones. things such street signs and road signs are designed by graphic designers. people don't seem to realise that magazines and book covers is made by designers, nearly everything on each page of a magazine especially on adverts are some type of graphic design. packaging is the final discipline of design which i have been able to identify is packaging of products, things like perfume bottles are a part of this, designers try to make the bottles attractive so they look appealing to customers.

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this is the magazine 'computer arts' after looking through the magazine i didn't find any article that i liked, but i thought that the front cover was really good to look at. i think that the colours work well together and the black makes certain things stand out.

3. i was looking on the design museum website and came across a company called 'fuel', there a graphic design company who work in fashion, music and on projects with other artists. they started the company by  producing there own magazine named 'fuel' which is where there business name came from, they then built there projects up from this magazine, the magazine was used to attract people to there company and now they are exhibiting in the design museum. 

 

4. i researched noma bar because his work stood out to me as its very flat bold bright colours and they are very 'in your face' images. He has published over 500 illustrations and featured on over 60 magazine covers. there is not much typography on any of his images so he uses the picture the get the message across which i think is an interesting way to do it as it makes you go away and think about the images which you have just seen.

5. I feel that this week has helped me to look into design more and to notice the things around me that are designed by graphic designers, everyday things such as logos on clothes which i would have not noticed before. i really enjoyed developing our own type around the words we were given, i found that helped me to look at the words and recognise the meaning behind it. i think that i would have liked to have designed a logo based around the word as well as just the typography as this would have given me some knowledge of this area.