If you think a graphic designer simply sits down, draws up an image on his computer, and emails it right out to whoever they’re working for, there’s a lot more for you to learn. Logos are simple, right? Most of them are very basic, easy to understand designs. How long could they possibly take to make?

If the logo is good, it might have taken that designer hours of brainstorming followed by a lot of sketching before he or she came to their final design. The simple nature of a logo can lead someone to believe it is not as difficult to create, as it would seem.

Most companies who have any form of advertising are going to be working with designers of some kind. You have to really understand the nature of what a graphic designer does if you are going to hire one out.

So what is there to know?

The final product that you will receive is often the result of long hours of work. Whether the job was to design a simple logo or a more complicated image for a brochure, figuring out how to create that perfect design for the company can be a very lengthy progress. Nevertheless, this is only part of what a company needs to understand.

Once they have the design and they are ready to begin with the process of their commercial color printing, there are a lot of important facts to be aware of.

From computer screen to computer screen an image may appear to be different. The brightness or contrast settings on your monitor are going to have an impact on what you are looking at. Try to look at the graphic from multiple monitors in order to get a better feel for what the colors are actually going to look like. The image may look perfect to you on your computer only to be different on someone else’s.

How the image looks on your computer screen is not always a good indication of what it will look like when printed, too.

While designing press releases one of the first things I was told was to print out a copy of it before sending the file to anyone else. The tone of the colors, the look of them together, could be quite a bit different on paper from on the screen. What sometimes looked faded or off on the screen can just be perfect on paper.

Of course, even the paper stock can have a serious impact on the look of the image. Be aware of what paper will best serve your color printing before you commit yourself to anything. Ask the commercial color printing designer what paper it will look best on.

If you are going to be dealing with graphic design, make sure you have a good working knowledge of what goes into it. It is a lot easier to work with a designer when you know what to ask for and what to be careful of.
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Have you got an opportunity to closely look at some of many websites you browse daily which doesn’t look appealing in their design and graphics? Most likely these sites are poorly formatted and take lot of time in loading. Do you know why would such things happen? It’s because the website is not build by a professional web designer and is a work of a less experienced or a new comer in web and graphics design industry. To save up all the pain and hassle involved in building a professional looking website, you must hire or outsource the work to a known web designer or designing company. Why we insist on giving the work to known designers is because there are those who claims to be professional but makes the same mistake as you being the owner of the website.

To get around a professional and good looking website, you have to keep the KISS principle in mind. KISS means Keep it Simple Stupid. The wording says it all, let’s talk about this principle in a detailed way.

First of all, we start to pick a nice background for your website. Just be careful in selecting the right color which doesn’t make the site too flashy (graphics design that forces attention). You have to figure out for how long a visitor should stay on your site, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, half hour, 1 hour etc. the background color would decide if the visitor would like to stay on the website or not. The best way to judge a color for your website would be to test around and stare at the website for a while to see the comfort level from a visitor’s angle. If your eyes start to water within 15 minutes of stare, then there is a problem otherwise its OK.

Secondly, concentrate on the content text color. This color should be inline with the ones that are easily readable and looks professional like the black color or dark gray etc. also, when it comes to Font, make sure there is consistency thorough out the website. All fonts should appear similar except the ones used for title texts. Font size is another factor that impacts on the overall looks and professionalism. Uneven font size gives an immature impression to the visitor. Don’t make the font too small for a visitor to find it difficult to read even though they have elegant appearance. Even if you have to use different fonts, use no more than 3 font styles and plan well before selecting which one would fit to serve what purpose. Keep your website as simple and neat as possible.

The final part involves scrolling through the website. Avoid using longer content that makes a visitor to push hard against his/her will to browse through to get to relevant data. Instead, split the content into smaller but various pages. This point is very important especially when you have planned to put longer content. Please reconsider before the visitor moves on to another website.

Remember whether you use oil paintings or any form of graphic design, simplicity is always best. For instance, the abstraction, instead of detailed art reproductions, works best on the Web.

I’m a teenager who’s interested in graphic design and the arts.

What kind of careers are there in that field?
What can you do with graphic design besides having the title of “graphic designer”?
What kind of education (college degrees) are required?
What does it take to be a graphic designer?

(Thanks… I know I have a lot of questions! Haha)