Emily, who just completed her school, is in a situation whether to pursue her higher education or get into her passionate field graphic design, right from her childhood Emily was always passionate about designing, so she thinks of starting her career as a graphic designer, but she was so skeptical whether to go for an office work or start as freelancer, whenever she was in doubt and need opinion she used to turn to her father, who is also her mentor, so without a hesitation she turned to her father.
Whenever Emily comes up questions her father turns excited, as he is always there to address her little princess question, he knows that Emily was so passionate about graphic designing so he started to her answer question, with utmost curiosity and sincerity Emily started to write it down and here are some excerpts from her father.
History of Graphic Designing
The term Graphic Designing was first coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922, but it originated in the prehistoric era, graphics used to by Man’s first art to express his ideas and thoughts. English daily’s started to use graphics for advertisements, to tell the story in a visual format in the start of 19th century.
In the year of 1980, desktop publishing came into effect, graphic art softwares were introduced, it enhanced the image manipulation and creation capabilities, but of course, there are some people who disagree with this opinion.
Graphic Designers work with
Graphic designers mostly work with a Design Consultancy, Branding agencies, Publishing, Marketing areas. In Digital era’s Web Design, User experience design for mobile apps, software applications is also becoming a huge hit and these professionals are most in demand now.
The Design process starts with page layout, there are some tools to create this one like Scribus which is the best tool for creating the page layout of your visual art. Then there are tools such as Inkscape, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator to create the vector of your visualization.
There are a number of tools available for Icon design which is the important aspect of User Interface Design.
Emily wrote down all the things carefully, even though she knows some of them already, she is so curious to write down each and everything that her father says.