Graphic Design Schools
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Career Center - by Get Degrees Staff
Want to share your unique artistic talents with the rest of the world? Earn a graphic design degree and land yourself a great career in this creative industry. Find out more about what it takes to earn the top salaries in this field.
Industries such as entertainment and advertising rely upon artistically gifted individuals for visual solutions, and new computer technology has made art more marketable than ever before. If you have the talent, communication skills, and…
Monday, June 29, 2009
Career Center - by Get Degrees Staff
Rather than doodling all day without getting a dime, you could be putting that creativity to work in graphic design degree program. While graphic design is quite a bit more complex and challenging than simple sketching, it’s one career path that lets your imagination shine. Learn more about this diverse field, degree requirements, and graphic design careers.
Graphic Design Jobs & Careers
Graphic designers work across the entire creative spectrum, creating visual presentations for corporations, non-profit organizations,…
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Career Center - by Carie Bishop
Today’s professional graphic designers rely upon vector graphics to build the corporate logos that create successful brands. In your college courses, you’ll no doubt be exposed to software that can import and manipulate vector graphics. Unlike raster images created by dots, vector graphics use mathematical formulas to store shapes and lines, allowing the designer to resize images for practically every use–banners, illustrations, web comps, or logos.
It might surprise you to learn that working artists often…
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Career Center - by Carie Bishop
Whether you’re a designer, graphics artist, animator, multi-media web creator, or visual arts student, you’ll find it to your advantage to make good friends with vector graphics software. Your professors and instructors should introduce you to vector concepts and the computer programs that bring them to life.
There are two major graphics display formats used in the industries: vector and raster. Raster objects are created in pixels, the tiny dots that assemble the image. The disadvantage…
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Career Center - by Carie Bishop
If you’re into new media as a writer, graphic artist, or developer, Web 2.0 will course through your veins. You’ll probably want your own blog or, perhaps, will be called upon to design or moderate one for someone else. There are plenty of stand-alone platforms in the blogosphere, but it’s humans that populate them. Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has his own rant about design and operational mistakes common to the blog space.
Blogs should be considered…
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Career Center - by Carie Bishop
Pursuing an undergraduate degree in web design? Now that the Internet has embraced social networking, blogs, and other Web 2.0 components, designers have to be nimble enough to adjust to the business requirements of their clients and employers.
Although the Web is a living, ever-changing entity, basic design principles will always apply in the workplace. If [...]
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