what do graphic designers do?

Answer 1

Graphic Designers are people within the Graphic Arts and Graphic Design industry who assemble together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of work. Sometimes they produce a piece purely from inspiration for self satisfaction, or entertainment, but many work in the industry for clients whom often wish to promote, advertise or publicise a certain topic or product.

Answer 2

Graphic Designer in general, designs everything on 2D space. Logos, invitations, labels, packaging, brochures and more.

But to be more deeper, they're job is actually to communicate out messages by using visuals. They communicate these messages through associating signs and style, that could be understood by their targeted audience. For example, when designing a wine label designer will use curls and intricate shapes to associate the product with elegance, as opposed to a soft drink label, they will use funky typeface (fonts) to associate the product with a fun image.

It's a more productive form of visual art. The clear difference between art and design is that art is done for yourself and design is done for your client. It's a great field to get into!

Answer 3

design marketing material in either print or web form- good design gets people to buy or act on what the client wants them to.

we use images and type sure- catalogs, brochures, logo design- pretty much the WHOLE IMAGE of a company is created by a graphic designer

its fun- but can be stressful and usually not a 9 to 5 job

Answer 4

This explains it better than I can..............

Graphic design is a form of visual communication using text and/or images to present information, or promote a message. The art of graphic design embraces a range of cognitive skills and crafts including typography, image development and page layout. Graphic design is applied in communication design and fine art. Like other forms of communication, graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created, and the products (designs) such as creative solutions, imagery and multimedia compositions. Graphic design is traditionally applied to static media, such as books, magazines and brochures. Additionally, since the advent of computers, graphic design is utilised in electronic media - often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.
There are varying degrees of graphic design. Graphic designer involvement may range from verbally communicated ideas, to visual rough drafts, to final production. In commercial art, client edits, technical preparation and mass production are usually required, but usually not considered to be within the scope of graphic design unless the client is also a graphic designer.
Although the term 'graphic designer' was first coined in the 20th century, the story of graphic design spans the history of marks of humankind from the magic of the caves of Lascaux to the dazzling neon's of Ginza. In both this lengthy history and in the relatively recent explosion of imaging in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they share the same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience."

Answer 5

ooo i am interested to hear what people have to say about this because graphic design is one of my carreer choices.

Answer 6

Design graphics. DUH!!!