Courtney Sheehy

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Design Interests

Introduction:
Going into this class knowing absolutely nothing about graphic design; thinking that it only entailed drawing shapes. Once I finished reading this article I feel that I have a much better understanding for what the field of graphic design truly demands!

Publication Graphic Design:
After reading through a few other graphic design categories, publication design captured my attention.  In this category you seem to be constantly having the challenge of coming up with new ideas that require you to meet the standards of books, newspapers, and magazines. Within this particular category you will defiantly not be bored at work, which would be ideal for someone who can get bored easily! This category will have you constantly doing something to meet the needs of your ideas. The whole idea of publication is to draw the consumer in, The Cosmopolitan Magazine does just that, by attracting females. Being exposed to new forms of communications through publications would be something that interests me!

Advertising Graphic Design:
Continuing through the article I fell upon advertising design, and how advertising designers have to market to consumers. Theses, adverting designers have a different perspective that they need to incorporate into their design to meet demands of their customers. I never even thought about how the designers are trying to make their product appeal to us. This category caught my attention because the customers wants are constantly changing, requiring the designer to continue to improve and change their designs based on their customers. As I try and think of an advertisting design that interests me would have to be Essie Nail Polish, it is the second link at the bottom of the page. This appealed to me because looking to major in management and could possibly have a job that would require me to have a mindset of a graphic designer!

Cosmopolitan Magazine: The colors on the page are bright however they seem to really compliment each other and drag the eyes all over the page.

Essie Advertisement: I find that all Essie designs are complex, the transparency of the white background and the white objects are interesting to look at.