Graphic Design
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Pick up your favorite magazine or visit your favorite website and you will see the work of a graphic designer. Graphic design is may not be considered a traditional form of art, because a person doesn't use a brush and canvas, their hands, or any type of musical instrument. A Graphic Designer's tools are the computer and their brain. Unlike other art forms, graphic designers are constantly using new tools to create their work because technology is always changing, and graphic designers must keep updated on the current software. It is also different from the traditional arts because designers will typically have rules or boundaries they can create their work in. In a sense it is like creating someone else's vision.
The graphic designer's goal is grab the viewer's eye. They don't want to their work to be so abstract that the view looks away, but they want to create something people will want to look at and keeping looking at. Graphic designers may be responsible for creating things such as signs, banners, posters, magazine covers, websites, etc. To be a graphic designer, the most important requirement is they must be creative...