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5 What is Graphic Design?
í Response / What are you interested in?
Write a post on this site.
Talk about why you are interested in graphic design. Do you want to be a designer or just use these skills for another passion? Write about two areas of graphic design discussed in the readings that interest you. What is it about that area that excites you?
Talk about what interest you in those areas of design. What is it about your personality and abilities that would be a good fit for corporate identity work, motion graphics, web design or other areas.
No book reports please! I don’t want you to regurgitate the reading all over me (eew). Your perspective and opinions. A true ‘response’ from your brain to mine.
Provide a link or two for each area of interest.
Write 2-3 concise paragraphs. Correct spelling and grammar please 🙂
Due 9pm Tuesday September 1
4 responses to “Response / What are you interested in?”
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Natalie Cartier says:
I am interested in graphic design because it is a unique and bold way to communicate, express ideas/thoughts, and solutions. Graphic design can turn boring information into something eye catching which can make it more meaningful and significant to the audience. For me personally, I do not want to be a designer. Although, I know the complex thinking involved with being a designer would help me with what I am pursuing to be, an investigator. I believe that an investigator must have an open mind, much like a designer. Investigators develop ideas, questions, and solutions. Similar to designers. Investigators have to look for what others cannot see or overlook, which relates to how designers have to find ways to reveal the beauty and meaning in something that not everyone sees. I’m hoping the skills I learn in graphic design will be very beneficial for what I am pursuing.
An area of graphic design that interests me is voice and vision design. What excites me about this area is that own experiences can be used to approach the project in a unique way. The influences of your experiences will give the design a certain identity because everyone has different experiences. Voice and vision design gives the opportunity to make a meaningful concept by taking advantage of being who you are. My personality and abilities would be a good fit for voice and vision design because of the unusual/unique experiences that I have gone through and my passion for a lot of things, could help create unique designs.
Another area of graphic design that interests me would be corporate design. What excites me about corporate design is that the design(s) created are going to be a certain corporations visual identity for the general public and I would have the opportunity/ability to create that design. Seems like that would be a fulfilling accomplishment. I believe that my personality and abilities would be a good fit for corporate design because I would want to please the client with the design they are looking for and make sure they get that. -
Julia Peet says:
I am interested in Graphic design because I love being able to edit photos and videos and draw attention to certain details within them. Recently this summer I started hiking and exploring many of the mountains here in good old New Hampshire, and some of the sights that I saw were incredible. I loved tinkering in Photoshop with these photos and cropping them, burning the edges, changing and altering the exposure and doing things to them that distorted what the viewer saw. I also love to draw and I would take a sketchbook up on top of those mountains and sketch the areas around me so that I could later bring it back down and create something on my computer.
I love the power and the influence that graphic design has over viewers. It can reach an incredible amount of people. Part of the reason I love Graphic Design so much is because the possibilities are endless. The term “Graphic Design” covers such a wide arrange of areas itself and there is a vast array of concepts. I’m looking forward to what this class has to offer and the different things I have to learn. -
Kelsey Rogers says:
I am interested in graphic design because it is something new to me. I have always been interested in art and been fairly descent at it. I normally do fine art, yet I was intrigued with the idea of doing it on the computer. I am not fully sure with what I want to do in this class because I have never taken a class on it before. I also do not normally play around with programs like photoshop. This past year in high school I took AP art, my concentration was 3D and my medium was clay. I chose 3D because I enjoy working with my hands.
I took many art classes in high school. I also took a CAD class and I like the idea of mixing those things together as a way of self expression. I love doing art it is my escape from reality and i want to see if graphic design can do the same thing for me. My dad went to school for graphic design and unfortunately did not get to get a degree in the profession. I like the idea of following the path he started himself. I also like the idea that graphic design impacts our lives and the future. -
Sean Kiziltan says:
For a majority of my High school years, I have placed Graphic design as a future study for me. All at the same time, Architecture has always been there for me also. I had these majors in mind because they seemed fit for my interests in anything related to traditional art and computer work. I seemed interested in anything technical. Although I haven’t worked as much as I would have wanted with computer programs, programming and editing software, I always knew I had a certain talent for such things. So far, I took some introductory work which kept my interest afloat.
I started to place other demands, bringing up questions like: “What can graphic design do for me to stretch out to other careers?” I love art, technology, technical work, I love working with people. And things like communicating through this kind of art I see through the packet’s examples, I see much more potential in pursuing the major. I took essentials such as the foundations class, drawing, and tech workshop for last semester. up till the end of Summer, I brought together my first few art classes and my passions into the idea of keeping this path! I want learn more about 3D art, sound work and overall editing softwares.
Everything from publication/book design to advertising and interaction design looked great to me, they all expand to many specializations. I feel that I will be able to give myself the opportunity of trying different things and choosing a path that will potentially help or interact with people. I always had the first rule I put out, that whatever I choose for a career, I want it to impact people’s lives in some positive way. And this reading has given me a better comprehension on how I could do such things.
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I am interested in Graphic design because I love being able to edit photos and videos and draw attention to certain details within them. Recently this summer I started hiking and exploring many of the mountains here in good old New Hampshire, and some of the sights that I saw were incredible. I loved tinkering in Photoshop with these photos and cropping them, burning the edges, changing and altering the exposure and doing things to them that distorted what the viewer saw. I also love to draw and I would take a sketchbook up on top of those mountains and sketch the areas around me so that I could later bring it back down and create something on my computer. Part of the reason I love Graphic Design so much is because the possibilities are literally endless. The term “Graphic Design” covers such a wide arrange of areas itself and there is a vast array of concepts. I’m looking forward to what this class has to offer and the different things I have to learn.
This reading opened my eyes truly to the vast extent of the amount of graphic design majors that there could be out there. I never really knew how general the term “graphic designer” really was. I always just assumed that graphic design was used to describe someone who played with photoshop or adobe products, but now I think I understand how ignorant I was.
There is so many out there for Graphic Designers to do and my previous knowledge only scratched at the surface. I am starting to believe that Graphic Designers are the new age. I think that they have the power to not only influence the world, but change the world. They are the thinkers at Apple, or Android, and who work at Twitter and Facebook and Google and anywhere where there is technology. The world is an evolving place and it needs graphic designers to pave the way.