- Why is it important to identify safety issues and to safely operate equipment utilized in the classroom?
Identifying safety issues increases awareness of what could go wrong in the design room. Knowing how to operate everything safely helps the designer and everyone else around remain safe and healthy.
- How do interpersonal and employability affect both your everyday live and your future?
Employability skills help not only with getting a job, but with life in general. The skills include having good values such as honesty, cooperation, and efficiency which help every day and in the work world.
- What is graphic design and why is it important to communicate visually?
They can convey an image by touching consumers emotionally, more effectively or with people with language barriers.
- What are the elements of design and how are they incorporated into a design?
Elements of design are line, shape, texture, value, and color. They are used in a design by using principles of design.
-What is a vector design and how is it created?
Vectors are image that can be blown up at any size as opposed to a raster. They use shapes, lines, and curves as opposed to pixels.
-How is color used effectively in a graphic design?
Color gives the images a certain feel. Warm colors are energetic and cool colors are calm. They also help guide the viewers' eyes to where they want the emphasis.
-What is a raster-based image and how is it created?
Raster-based images are created with pixels. They are not blown up to be any size and are not created with mathematical equations.
-How does the manipulation of size and resolution effect digital images?
The size can distort the image by pixelating it. The resolution refers to the quality and 300dpi is appropriate for printing while 72dpi is appropriate for screens.
-What are the principles of design and how can they be used within a design?
The principles of design are contrast, balance, scale and proportion, repetition/rhythm, unity/variety, directional forces, and emphasis. These help the design be more effective and attractive to the eye by creating interest and sending messages.
-What is the function of type in a design?
Type clearly conveys the message to the target audience that the design is trying to say.
-How do designers use a page layout program?
Page layout programs have many uses including magazine layouts, newspaper articles, and books.
-What steps does a designer take to design a page layout from concept to final product?
The creative process is used which includes researching the audience and concept, brainstorming, drawing thumbnails, then executing the creation.
-What are the key developments in the history of visual communication? How did these developments shape our industry?
Key developments include cuneiform from the Sumerians, the worlds first alphabet, hieroglyphics, formation of phonetics and sentences, the monks creating books which eventually turned more accessible with the Gutenberg printing press. The linotype machine replaced writing by creating a quicker way to create texts, photographs helped instantly record time visually and the computer gave the world internet access which helps search for more graphics, designs, and advertisements.
