What is graphic design

For this task i was asked to write a brief  for a project that defines what i consider Graphic Design to be . As

a graphic design student idea is key for me.

My project would be collage of different visuals that would be classified as graphic design. An example of how my project would look like.before starting this task, i did some research of what graphic design is and what it consists of .

Graphic design is a creative process—most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form (i.e., printers, signmakers, etc.) undertaken in order to convey a specific message or messages to a targeted audience.

The field as a whole is also often referred to as Visual Communication or Communication Design. Various methods are used to create and combine words, symbols, and images to create a visual representation of ideas and messages.

A graphic designer may use a combination of Typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to produce the final result. Graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.

Throughout the years of studying graphics design as a student and as a freelance, i consider graphics design could be anything that communicates to the audience visually for example moving images, logos, shapes, colours, patterns, newspapers and magazines. I think graphic design is a collage of static images, 3d and 2d objects, typography which was mentioned earlier on.

Graphic design researched images 

the images above shows various graphics work which i found on the internet. In most of the images, there are always typography, shapes, colours and purpose of the image. 

Aim

My aim for this project would be to create a poster of what can be classified as graphics design 

For my poster I showed all the work I have done for clients including poster, flyers, websites layout, album

covers e.t.c. I thought about graphic design being a collage of shapes, typography and images.before creating the poster, I decided to present my work through the use of a mirror and the reason for this is by looking at the mirror I can see a collage of work which i think stands as a visual communication

Pictures taken by me for this task 

First draft of my poster 

This was the first idea I came up with and I got a feedback from my tutor regarding this poster. I had to remove the image and treat the poster as a mirror and another person can pick it up and look through my mirror of graphic design 

Final draft of my poster 

The image above is my final poster of what I think graphic design is .

Mirror (My Home)

For this task, I was asked to create a visual description of my home.I  decided to use a blueprint theme 

to represent my home. the image below shows a rough blueprint of my home which is a two bedroom house 

 in Stratford,London. my main idea was to use different colours to show my most spent time which is my room.

Original Idea (Ping Plus mobile App)

For this task, i was asked to come up with an original idea. this task was difficult because most idea I came up with as been create. The original idea I came up with was a blackberry app which enables users to have an extra feature on the blackberry messenger. This app would enable blackberry users have the option to like there friends status on there messenger. 

Disaster waiting to happen

For this task I was asked to create a video and a book on a disaster waiting to happen. I chose to produce a work on the world with out the internet in relation to the 24 hours blackout of Wikipedia search engine. 

My idea for the book was to use an old computer theme by using patterns and a green colour giving the feel of an old computer layout.I used the system type font for the booklet

                                 Front cover 

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Circus of sound

For this task, I was asked to create an album cover for a music industry called circus of sound. The circus of sounds had eleven artist and there singles. before sketching out my idea, i had to listen to the music which was classic and dark kind of music. I done research on different album covers and the theme i wanted to go for was a circus theme.

Images which inspired me for the circus of sound album cover are shown below :

 

Final album cover for circus of the sound 

                             Front cover

Typography Poster/Billboards and Tshirt

I was given a quote from my tutor and was expected to make a typography design from the quote. The quote was "If You Can Count Your Money You Done Have A Billion Dollars" By J.Paul Getty

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

Biography

By J.Paul Getty (1892-1976)

Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, whilst the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1,200 million.  At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion.

Getty was an avid collector of art and antiquities; his collection formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, and over $661 million of his estate was left to the museum after his death.

Born into George Getty's family in the petroleum business in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was one of the first people in the world with a fortune estimated at over one billion U.S. dollars.

Before i started creating my poster i did some research in typography posters shown bellow which inspired me in creating my own design.

By looking at other typography designs, i was able to get an idea of what to create and in order to express the quote in a typographical way, I did some research about J. Paul Getty who was an american billionaire and he involves around money. A dollar bill came to my mind which would relate to the quote.

with the use of a dollar font type, colour and shape of a dollar bill I was able to design my quote to look like the following poster below .

I used the same type font on the us dollar bill note shown bellow 

    My previous design for the poster 

       T-shirt print for the quote

   Billboard poster for the quote