Graphic Designer-Necessary Skills

 

Necessary Skills for a Graphic Designer

Graphic Designing itself is a very great skill but some other skills are linked with graphic designing that are very important & helpful for a good graphic designer.

Technical skills: 

These skills help you to become a good graphic designer to improve your work & take your skill to advance level in your art work.

Typography:

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In graphic designing Alphabet Letters has a very important role. 

When we are trying to communicate a visual message we need to arrange the words in text format to deliver our message clearly to the audience. Arrangement of words & phrases are called typography. A person become a good graphic designer, if he learnt to handle text in designing.

Photography:

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When we are designing a poster or magazine Ad we use images in our design to communicate our message capturing of these images call photography. It’s not necessary that you must be a professional photographer but at least a basic knowledge about photography is helpful to become a good graphic designer.

Illustration:

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Creating/making a sketch or drawing something call illustration. When a graphic designer starting a job / project, after brainstorm process, he implements his ideas by creating thumbnail sketches of his design. So illustration is also very important skill in graphic designing.

 

Software:

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Graphic designing is incomplete without software. Ai, Ps, Id, etc. you have to be skillful in these software to understand the use of its features & tools to become a good graphic designer.

 

Professional skills:

These skills make your graphic designer personality professional & help you to improve your work & keep you out of the crowd.

Communication skill: 

Graphic design also known as visual communication design. A graphic designer must have good communication skill. When you try to convey a message visually, if your communication skill is good, you will able to create & convey your visual message also good. Communication skill is also important to understand & educate your client when you awarded a project.

Critical Thinking: 

Graphic designing is a problem solving activity. If you understand your problem & you know that the poster/magazine Ad you are designing, what message you are trying to communicate/convey to the audience, you will make it the best you can.

Analytical Skill: 

For a graphic designer, it is very important to analyze his work time to time. Also use the negative feedback to improve his work & understand the week point for improvement.

 Quality Assurance: 

When you’ve complete your designing work, you’ve to make sure & examine the design if it is as per the client requirement & expectation before releasing to the client.