Archive for the ‘Graphic design’ Category
The incompleteness of a completed graphic design qualification
In hindsight, the two things that I found missing from what we were taught while studying Graphic Design are, the business side of creativity and branding. The Creative Business, selling of thoughts Almost anybody can perform fairly as a businessperson, you buy something at x amount and sell it at x + markup. Simple. Regardless...
Logo design for Bothakga Design Studio
I was recently commissioned to design a logo and online presence for Bothakga Design Studio, a company that does, well, graphic design. I had an idea of how I’m going to approach the logo design, in regards to the concept, while the client was briefing me so I don’t really have any rough sketches or other...
Interview by matric student: Chané Dreyer
Chané Dreyer is a matriculant aspiring on studying Graphic Design at Inscape Design College, in Cape Town. Applicants were required to interview a qualified graphic designer as part of their application. Because of my not-so-bad ranking on Google I was lucky enough for my website to have appeared amongst Chané’s web searches and I thought I...
The relativity, inequality and subjectivity of creativity
Regardless of how you define beauty, you’re probably right. Not because I’ve been fed the beauty is in the eye of the beholder proverb, but because like most things around us, beauty is subjective. Nobody can prove what you see as beautiful, wrong. And how would you define boring without considering or bringing your definition...
Graphic design is not liable for selling the product, the product is
Graphic Design mainly serves as a means to present an idea, product or message And truth be told, there’s only so much that graphic design can do. Let’s take a music concert as an example, regardless of how well-designed a poster might be, I won’t go see ‘artist this+that’ if I’m not into their music....
Simplicity: A fallacy to a (should’ve been) quick turnaround time
This is a continuation of my previous post on the two most common fallacies in regards to design, and this time the spotlight on simplicity. Great things are simple, in both form and function. And, simple things are great. While a complex design is likely to look like more work when compared to a simple design, simplicity is...