Graphic design

Visual communication and presentation using a variety of mediums, techniques and skills are the elements of graphic design. A graphic designer may use typography, visual arts, page layout and web design elements to produce the final product.

Common uses for graphic design include ad work, product packaging, magazines and web sites. Graphic design split from fine art in 19th Century Europe. Piet Mondrian is credited as the father of graphic design. The advent and explosion of the internet has fostered new design requirements for the web design environment. Many graphic designers working on the internet are also photographers to facilitate web client needs.

Tutorial based blogs and social media are big business on the internet, with billions of websites worldwide needing at least some for graphic design. Blogs on graphic design include trends, tips and techniques as well as listing of hot new graphic design sites. Award listings and resources are also common features of graphic design blogs.

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• 30 Stunningly Beautiful Wallpapers

  
  PSDFan — Authority: 525
  Wallpapers With a Difference I’ve done a few wallpaper roundups here before, each of which has captures some great designs. You can view some of these below: 20 Totally Awesome Abstract Wallpapers 30 Magnificent High Def Space Wallpapers 35 High Def Wallpapers to Calm and Inspire You However, today I ...
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• Flash Game as a facebook application by circusinsmalltow

  
  Freelancer jobs resources — Authority: 171
  Howdy, Im looking for a solid team to develop a casual flash game with excellent graphic as a Facebook application. The development itself will be started from scratch. The concept of the game will... (Budget: $1500-3000, Jobs: AJAX, Facebook, Flash, Graphic Design, PHP)Related posts: Flash Social Game – ...
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• The Great Graphic Design on a Budget: How to Do More with Less

  
  Photoshop Tutors — Authority: 156
  Product Description Great Graphic Design on a Budget is packed with high-concept and beautifully executed designs plus countless ideas for cutting costs both in the studio and on press ( including free fonts and art and using recycled materials and dynamic alternatives to art). It is a recession-busting addition to ...
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• Cut and paste heroes. Elaine Lustig Cohen pays homage to graphic design’s modernist forbears

  
  Eye blog — Authority: 126
  The recent New York exhibition ‘My Heroes: portraits of the avant-garde’ featured a set of works in collage and mixed media by artist and graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen, writes Jeremy Aynsley. These will be of interest to readers of Eye as they explore the implications of one of the most exciting ...
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• Mark Weaver

  
  Four Fifths Design — Authority: 125
  Designer : Mark Weaver Beautiful palettes, excellent blend of photo, type and design. That is what Mark Weaver delivers. I’m especially fond of the screen prints Weaver has created.
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• Manystuff / RCA London / W.I.P. Pressroom issue 4

  
  manystuff.org Graphic Design daily selection — Authority: 134
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• David Ope

  
  we find wildness — Authority: 142
  DAVID OPE is the creative director and founder of the design atelier volll . DAVID OPE was raised in love - bilingual and bicultural (DE/HU), which explains a lot. DAVID OPE is living in a suburb of Budapest, with his dachshund Susie. DAVID OPE loves the danger: 2 ...
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• Manystuff / RCA London / Work in Progress show / Communication Art & Design projects focusing / Grégoire Alix-Tabeling

  
  manystuff.org Graphic Design daily selection — Authority: 134
  Grégoire Alix-Tabeling the “Territoires en Résidences” project “I am developing “communication design” during my master in the RCA. After a graduation at the ENSAD in Paris I decided to focus on the investigation coming before any brief for graphic design, and use graphic design as a final tool if ...
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• Logo Design For Website

  
  ScriptLancer Blog — Authority: 175
  I need a logo design in GIF format for a wholeale webshop that sells: ethnobotanicals. Needs to be GIFformat: 317px × 105px (100% exact!) The logo must be delivered also in print format (so for catalogs, invoices and business cards).I also need a smaller GIF image (not a logo, just very basic + some text) in the size ...
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• Follow The K.I.S.S Rule For Your Website!

  
  Social & Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 152
  The K.I.S.S rule is Keep It Simple, Stupid! When planning the website designing for your website make sure you dont forget that like any other thing in life even your website needs to be simple to be remembered. Everyone very easily forgets complex things. Your website needs to be easy to comprehend and must be easy ...
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• Create Dvd From Pdf Files

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 183
  I have 160 pdf files I’d like to put on a DVD so users can read the contents by playing the DVD in any DVD player/drive. The files are in 5 categories. 4 are sections of an ebook (110 files) and 1 is bonus material (50 files). This a turnkey project, you’ll include appropriate graphics and music. Once the ...
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• Create Dvd From Pdf Files

  
  ScriptLancer Blog — Authority: 175
  I have 160 pdf files Id like to put on a DVD so users can read the contents by playing the DVD in any DVD player/drive.The files are in 5 categories. 4 are sections of an ebook (110 files) and 1 is bonus material (50 files). This a turnkey project, youll include appropriate graphics and music.Once the original is ...
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• What’s in a Brand?

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 149
  Working in an advertising and marketing agency like DDA, it is not out of the ordinary to see a wide range of client-provided styleguides. Some businesses do not have these materials and are open to morphing their branding image and corporate identity over time and across media, while others define branding typologies ...
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• Mini-Christmas

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 149
  I’ve loved getting the mail since I was a kid. Running out to the mailbox after I saw the mailman pull away every Monday through Saturday was an exciting time. It’s like a mini-Christmas in itself. I didn’t know what would be in the mailbox until I opened it, but it’s the mystery of what’s in the box that ...
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• Nice Html For Ebay Listing

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 183
  Looking for experienced programmers, who can create HTML for ebay product. Bid only if you have done HTML for ebay product previously, and know exactly how to do it, and how it works. Will accept only that bidder, who can provide ebay HTML sample, which they have previously created. Expecting nice, creative design. ...
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• 14% d’Impôt sur les divertissements – NON MERCI

  
  KEEP?REAL — Authority: 139
  Manifestations THEATRALES, MUSICALES, LITTERAIRES, ARTISTIQUES, CINEMATOGRAPHIQUES, SPORTIVES, SALONS ET EXPOSITIONS, CONCERTS LIVE, SOIREES (dancing et clubbing)… …sur chaque billet que vous achetez, Lausanne est l’une des dernières grandes villes à prélever 14% d’impôt sur les divertissements! ...
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• save the dates from small stump/studio choo

  
  mint — Authority: 132
  Designed by Jill Pilotte of Small Stump , these save the dates were a completely DIY project! Jill was inspired by a vintage botanical identification label and their greenhouse (she’s one half of the floral shop Studio Choo ). Jill and her fiance Matt are getting married in an orchid/fern greenhouse (thus ...
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• Jamie Mitchell

  
  bitique — Authority: 134
  [IMG: http://www.bitique.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jamie_mitchell_1.jpg][IMG: http://www.bitique.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jamie_mitchell_2.jpg][IMG: http://www.bitique.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jamie_mitchell_3.jpg]
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• Touch of a Graphic designer

  
  Gconnect — Authority: 121
  What seems to be a normal picture to us, could turn out to be an odd and strange picture when it goes into the hands of a good graphic designer.  A grapic designer can do wonderful things to the the most normal pictures and totally trick your senses into believing what you are seeing could be real.  This is a ...
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• this thing could run and run

  
  davidthedesigner — Authority: 125
  What Im getting around to calling this thing all started when I had an email arrive out of the blue from Sarah at we are social . And thats how I ended up having a really great day out in Brussels with a group of fellow bloggers , courtesy of Eurostar . That then led on to the make us smile competition which, as ...
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