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It's nice to go an extra mile for your client but sometimes it can be just plain bad for you to grant them every unreasonable request.These are some, but not the only moments designers should just say No!!! 1.Can you do something similar to that designer's style? No!!!.Hire that particular designer if you like his style. 2.I made these in Word, can you start from here? No,finish it you.Designing in Word means you have some notable abilities. 3.Can you work for free? A very big NO, I have bills to pay. 4.I suddenly have another better idea, can we change the whole design? No.Unless you are prepared to pay double... 5.We don't have any content yet, can you design a draft for us? Hell No.You think I am a soothsayer or something? 6.It's urgent, can you do it really quick? No.My brain does not have a time lapse feature. 7.My wife likes pink can you change the color? No.Green has nothing to do with the  ''Go Green'...

The ability to make things is a gift. The ability to make things beautifully is a blessing. I can no longer remember or attribute my most frequently quoted definition of design: “The act of moving from an existing condition to a preferred one.” The sentence itself well exemplifies its subject. It’s direct, reductive, clear and understandable. It gracefully avoids engaging the several thousand other issues that rise to the surface when the subject comes up. One Of Milton Glaser's Most Famous Pieces Since no human activity can disengage itself from design issues, such as effectiveness, style, money, appropriateness, understandability, originality and memorability all swarm around the subject, blurring and confusing its outlines. Since I was a child, my own recurring question about design has been its relationship to art (beauty). At this late point in my life, I perceive them as two separate intentions that under the right circumstances can be brought together.  These ...

What makes a great designer? Is there some secret formula? Where is that sweet 5-step process to becoming a killer designer? Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no such formula.  However, when I study and watch successful designers, I see common qualities. Working at a creative agency has proven to me that there are eight qualities of a great graphic designer. A great designer is… 1. Always Learning Who likes to be told how to do something better than or different from the way we were taught? Usually, we start to short-circuit and lose our cool. But what if they’re right? What if that Photoshop trick saves you three hours of production time? Qualities of a Great Graphic Designer Many great designers started out very humble. They became sponges and took it all in. They took notes and tried new things. They were receptive and grew because they listened to the people around them. There wasn’t an attitude of pride or arrogance, but a conscious decision t...

Refrigerators are designed to accomplish a task. So are phones, interfaces, bridges, buildings, and the like.  They address problems and fill gaps to make our lives easier, or better. For these products and structures, visuals are mostly decoration, where certainly form follows function, and even if you want a ‘frige with a Kurig and TV in it, you still need it to keep things cold. These things exist primarily as solutions to a problem, and are designed to solve that problem practically. The Art Of Graphic Design But, graphic design addresses it’s problems more conceptually, often emotionally invoking, and communicates it’s solutions visually, most notably with shape and color. Aesthetics are important because as creators we send messages through them, and as viewers have evolved to judge things in our world by appearances. Graphic design represents something. It allows you to identify it, then receive a message from it. “I just wished we talked about style more. Desig...

Graphic design is the process of creating visual and textual content in order to communicate messages to a target group.  It involves the application of typography, photography, and illustration, in combination with visual hierarchy and page layout techniques. Twenty-first-century graphic design extends beyond traditional print media and includes web design, packaging, wayfinding, and exhibition design. The history of graphic design begins with the production of manuscripts in ancient civilizations, which placed an emphasis on typography. For centuries, early artists—usually commissioned or, like medieval monks, duty-bound by vocation to work in the realms of mysticism, religion, and state affairs—had few tools at their disposal.  What is Graphic Design? They had to etch and ink representations painstakingly on stone, clay, papyrus, bark, parchment, and vellum. With technological progress (i.e., the invention of movable type and eventually computers), the field develo...