How to Do: Graphic Design

After a few pointers and a bit of practice you will be able to produce your own newsletters, personal business cards, flyers, posters, menus, letterheads …in fact just about anything that gets produced as printed material.

By graphic design I am really referring to the arrangement of pictures and text into a format for printing. ‘How to Do: Graphic Design’ focuses on the software and button pushing skills needed to produce cards, flyers, brochures, posters and all the things I get to do for my children’s school fayre and the village fete and so on. There are interpretive skills you can bring to bear here, giving your creativity a platform to express itself. I can certainly give you a few pointers here, having taught graphic design to university undergraduates and having designed graphics for some of the biggest companies in the world.

In the professional world we use a range of tools, predominantly PhotoShop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, InDesign and a few others. These tools have set the standard and pretty much all other graphic design tools are based on these, meaning that if you can use one, you can pretty much use them all. This makes it very easy for me to teach you how to use any set of graphic tools. In fact most computer’s come with some, if not all, of what you need to produce these sorts of things. If not, they are readily available as cheap or free options. The sort of progams you might have on your machine are MicroSoft Publisher, Apple iWork, Paint, PaintShop, PhotoShop (and PhotoShop Essentials), Aperture and many others.

After a few pointers and a bit of practice you will be able to produce your own newsletters, personal business cards, flyers, posters, menus, letterheads …in fact just about anything that gets produced as printed material. All you have to do is either print it from your own printer or take it along to anyone of  thousands of high street, or online professional printing companies to become a ‘published’ designer.

…and there you have it!

Call me on 07017 343434 to learn How to Do: Graphic Design.