Graphic Design Process
Before you touch the software, you have to know what it is you are creating. Explore the creative graphic design process involved in taking a project from idea to finished print project. Imagine it, sketch it, give it shape, form, and color.
Design Process
Lists some common steps involved in the design phase of desktop publishing along with related tutorials.
Lists some common steps involved in the design phase of desktop publishing along with related tutorials.
Sketch This! Desktop Publishing Thumbnails
Explore layout options quickly with rough thumbnail sketches. Here's examples and tips for using thumbnail sketches.
Explore layout options quickly with rough thumbnail sketches. Here's examples and tips for using thumbnail sketches.
Form Follows Function
Often applied to architecture, engineering, and industrial design, the statement 'form follows function' applies to graphic design and desktop publishing too. For designers, form is the elements that make up our designs, our pages. Function is the objective of the design whether it is a sign giving directions or a book that entertains with a story.
Often applied to architecture, engineering, and industrial design, the statement 'form follows function' applies to graphic design and desktop publishing too. For designers, form is the elements that make up our designs, our pages. Function is the objective of the design whether it is a sign giving directions or a book that entertains with a story.
Document Format
What are you going to design? The first step in designing any type of document for desktop publishing is determining what format it will take. Will it be a brochure, a newsletter, a small space ad, a business card, a greeting card, or something else?
What are you going to design? The first step in designing any type of document for desktop publishing is determining what format it will take. Will it be a brochure, a newsletter, a small space ad, a business card, a greeting card, or something else?
Art Direction
Learn about the role of art directors in the creative process. A List Apart addresses Art Direction and the Web but includes descriptions of traditional art direction.
Learn about the role of art directors in the creative process. A List Apart addresses Art Direction and the Web but includes descriptions of traditional art direction.
Basics: Directing Design
Explore the role of the client in the design process.
Explore the role of the client in the design process.
Basics: What is design?
Wallrich Landi defines the form and function of design.
Wallrich Landi defines the form and function of design.
Drawing in the Design Process
Describes a book by Peter Olpe aimed at teaching how to employ drawing in the process of designing.
Describes a book by Peter Olpe aimed at teaching how to employ drawing in the process of designing.
Graphic Design or Visual Communication: Product vs. Process
In part this is an editorial on the lost meaning of "graphic design." It also draws a distinction between graphic design and visual communication.
In part this is an editorial on the lost meaning of "graphic design." It also draws a distinction between graphic design and visual communication.
How the Creative Process Works
At Creative Latitude Derald Schultz looks at 5 steps/processes involved in creativity and design.
At Creative Latitude Derald Schultz looks at 5 steps/processes involved in creativity and design.
How to Brief Graphic Designers (PDF)
There are some useful bits throughout this PDF including descriptions of the design process.
There are some useful bits throughout this PDF including descriptions of the design process.
Making Them Want It
Don't forget the client in the middle of the design process. Paolo Pace reminds us that we need their support for our great ideas and one way to get it is to keep them informed and explain what you're doing and why.
Don't forget the client in the middle of the design process. Paolo Pace reminds us that we need their support for our great ideas and one way to get it is to keep them informed and explain what you're doing and why.
Process: Design
Design involves thumbnail sketches, research, musing, client feedback, and refinement according to Wallrich Landi.
Design involves thumbnail sketches, research, musing, client feedback, and refinement according to Wallrich Landi.
Process: Planning
The first step in the design process is the planning. It involves deciding what it is the final product (whatever it may turn out to be) is supposed to communicate as well as practical matters such as the form it will take.
The first step in the design process is the planning. It involves deciding what it is the final product (whatever it may turn out to be) is supposed to communicate as well as practical matters such as the form it will take.
Process: Production
Design doesn't always happen in a nice linear fashion. Some of the design process takes place once actual production begins. Wallrich Landi describes the production part of the design process.
Design doesn't always happen in a nice linear fashion. Some of the design process takes place once actual production begins. Wallrich Landi describes the production part of the design process.
Sketch, Sketch, Sketch
Paolo Pace of Tiem Design reinforces the role of sketching in the design process.
Paolo Pace of Tiem Design reinforces the role of sketching in the design process.
Sketching Isn't Quite So Sketchy
You don't have to be an artist to do sketches with value. Simple lines and shapes are often enough to convey an idea.
You don't have to be an artist to do sketches with value. Simple lines and shapes are often enough to convey an idea.
The Design Process: First Steps and the Client
Flair for Design outlines 4 steps.
Flair for Design outlines 4 steps.
The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design
This paper explores how the process of graphic design is communicated and how we learn design.
This paper explores how the process of graphic design is communicated and how we learn design.
Wallrich Landi: Sketchbook
Explore the design process of one designer through sketches and notes on actual projects.
Explore the design process of one designer through sketches and notes on actual projects.