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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"graphic designers"”.
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Hiring Practices for Graphic Designers In Utah County, Utah
… was to show how hiring standards of evidence for graphic designers in Utah County compared with the national standards of evidence. The four major national standards of evidence for hiring graphic designers, identified by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Goldfarb, in order of …
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A cross-cultural design pattern: Chinese modern design
Chinese graphic designers are gaining more visibility and earn awards in various international poster competitions, shaping a new visual frontier in Chinese graphic design. These successes are based on their special cross-cultural design principle, which combines Chinese traditional culture with …
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Breaking Boundaries
Graphic design communication is in constant change. Everyday new technologies emerge and evolve, affecting the way we communicate and deliver messages. For this reason, graphic designers should be able to understand the basic principles of design and effectively apply them to any media. It is my …
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An investigation into the communication exchange between small business client and graphic designer.
Graphic designers encounter particular difficulties when undertaking work for small business clients. Identifying the core business values is an essential step to ensure that a successful design solution results. An initial case study involving the merger of two established businesses, highlighted …
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Global Design and its Ethical Implications: An Interpretative Analysis of Global Images
… Hence, a key question in this study is: how can graphic designers globalise graphic design in an ethical manner without giving rise to breakdowns in communication and threatening cultural diversity? With the purpose of answering this question the study uses an interpretative analysis of global …
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The Role of Images in Support of Graphic Design Ideation
Graphic design is a discipline whose purpose is the creation of visual messages delivered to an audience, typically on behalf of a client. Practitioners of design are encouraged to demonstrate creativity in the execution of their work, and to develop and maintain awareness of visual culture to …
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Damn Right Design: A Proposal of a Creative Platform to Facilitate Socially Responsible Graphic Design
This thesis argues that the discipline of graphic design still lacks awareness of the significant role it plays in addressing social problems. In social (graphic) design projects, designers move away from the more conventional design practice that takes place within an advertising agency or design …
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Strange Encounters: An Investigation of Graphic Design-Produced Artifacts that Discuss Hybrid Embodiment of Indo-Canadian Identity
… gender, race, class, temporal and spatial geographic location and dislocation. This has become a topic of interest among graphic designers as they explore design’s relationship with culture. This thesis explores the use of graphic design to produce visual artifacts that discuss hybrid …
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The Hapathetic Generation
… Millennials, are the most socially concerned demographic to date; yet they are also the least likely to involve themselves in solutions that address their concerns. One cannot help but wonder how a generation whose social concern is so well documented is also incredibly inactive in their efforts …
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Less realism : more meaning : evaluating imagery for the graphic designer
… a defining term has become interchangcable with 'graphic design'. and while font choice and application is seen as of paramount importance. image choice, virtually half , . of the communication design equation, is neglected in the theory and in pratice is left to the instinct of the designer. In …
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A personal color proofing system for computer generated images
… at the turn of the century, so has computer graphics begun to reshape visual communication. Although still in its infancy, recently developed tools for visual communication have made computer graphics and electronic imaging accessible to a much larger number of artists and other …
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Enhanced visual authoring using operation history
Graphical editors have introduced great flexibility to the designer's workflow, providing powerful digital tools and enabling the creation of complex and compelling designs. This thesis presents methods for improving these interactions by leveraging operation history. Much instrumentation and …
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Software tools for the graphic designer
… three packages of programs of interest to the graphic designers: (l) a tool for pointing at objects on the display monitor, (2) a tool for organizing sets of programs into interactive menus, and (3) a tool for digitizing type fonts. The graphic designer at the computer uses at least three …
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Milti-party Information Systems development : the challenge of cross-boundary collaboration
… disciplines-business strategists, technologists, graphic designers, marketers-spanning multiple organizations and hierarchical levels need to find ways of working together. In this thesis I draw on data from an ethnographic field study of a multi-party IS development project and an R&D group in an …
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Brand Archives: The rescuing of locally specific brand imagery as a graphic design response to the globalization of visual identity
… understood as the result of the application of graphic design methods aimed at inter-brand differentiation, which paradoxically is leading to “homogenizing identities” (Bell, 2004). The globalization of visual identity is a phenomenon that can be observed not only among global brands competing …
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Picturing the World's news: news photography, culturalproduction, Thomson Reuters and the international processof news making
… the chief of the department, administrators, graphic designers, sales and marketing, the international news agency, the different news outlets, different media and other organizations and their audiences, who are all responsible for the representation of one reality and the production of …
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Orizaba Urban Design Plan
… creative business owners, including architects, graphic designers, interior designers, and others, started to locate in the District, mainly along Coronado and Gladys Avenues. This private investment spurred further development and led to the identification of the site as having the potential to …
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The intercorrelation between Arabic calligraphy and graphic design in Saudi Arabia: an analytical study of the current status of Arabic calligraphy and the impact of graphic design and Saudi’s policy on its role as a traditional craft
… The relationship between Arabic calligraphy and Graphic design in Saudi Arabian culture and its creative industries is investigated; the arts and handicrafts policy of the Saudi government and the role of these in promoting and sustaining Arabic calligraphy is examined. Finally, the influence of …
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Visual Elements and Visual Paradigms. Re-thinking scientific conceptual figures through Graphic Design
… to create and read such figures, it is rare for graphic designers to be involved in their production. This research thesis undertakes an investigation of these scientific conceptual figures, one that puts their scientific meaning at the forefront. Graphic design practice forms an essential …
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New Modes of Production and Australian Graphic Design Culture
… Moreover, of considerable neglect, is the graphic designer’s role in transforming an inveterate Australian newspaper trade into a mass communication industry. This research is a ‘narrative inquiry’ that interweaves first-hand experiences with biographical, visual and contextual data into …
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