graphic design rules

No matter who actually you are, a graphic designer, web designer, visualizer, concept developer, animator, or layout artist. If you belong with the word “Graphic Design,” this is for you.

It’s about the time when I was in the initial stage of learning graphic design. For me, it was all about experimenting and playing with colors. Starting with a white canvas in Adobe Photoshop and ending with an illusion, which can’t be predicted correctly, what does it denote? But yet it was a designed graphic.

I still remember most of my great designs were actually started without any concept and were conceptualized after I finished them. I used to call it quality by mistakes.

This is not the story of me alone; infect this belongs to thousands of newcomers and some time even with professionals.

This article, “One Lesson Book – The Graphic Design,” is all about explaining the most critical and important factor to design a conceptualized & significant graphic for the highly demanding corporate design world.

Graphic design is no more remains the art of playing with colors; it’s a complete set of processes to follow.

  1. Understanding the Core Concept.
  2. Visualizing
  3. Creating Value
  4. Sketching
  5. Layout Designing
  6. Final Touch

1) Understanding Core Concept

The core concept is actually the message, which needs to be delivered to the audience of your graphic. Better to call it the subject of the graphic. So before double-clicking the icon of a graphic editor, set a core message for your future graphic. Think about what you need your audience to know from this graphic. Then see your concept from the customer’s point of view. Are you getting what you want to show?

2) Visualizing

I believe the most critical factor to design a significant graphic is visualizing and designing the concept. Concept i.e. how will you deliver your message to your audience? Concept i.e., what single illusion will replace your 1000 words?

In this step, you need to visualize the look and feel of your future graphic. You need to visualize the contents of the graphic.

Let me take an example –

Once I have seen an advertisement for a car manufacturing company in a magazine. In the graphic, they had placed a luxurious white color sofa on four wheels. Of course, they wanted to show their customers, how much comfort the car delivers to riders.

This is an elegant example of getting the core concept (“Delivering Comfort”) and visualizing a design (“Luxurious Sofa on Four Wheels”).

3) Creating Value

Creating value means you have to visualize your design according to the value of the product or the value of the brand. What I mean to say is you can’t visualize a beggar signing a cheque by a Luxurious Parker Pen Or, you can’t visualize a family sitting & smiling in a Red Ferrari Racing Car.

The brands have certain values, and you have to design your graphic accordingly to maintain their brand value.

4) Sketching

Most of the designers love to skip this step, but this is again a very important section. Designing a sketch of your visualization before drawing the actual graphic is like designing a demonstration model of a building before actually building it.

It gives you a vision of what exactly the final graphic is going to come. You can better use your time enhancing the content placement and look & feel of graphics on a paper and even can make appropriate changes if something goes wrong here.

5) Layout Designing

Now you are 100% ready to make your hands dirty with the various tools of graphic design software to shape your imagination in actual form.

The profit of following all 4 steps above can be seen here, where you have a clear image in your mind that what exactly you want to create and how finally it will look.

There is a saying in management, “it’s always better to spend extra time when planning, instead of spending extra days in producing.”

6) Final Touch

Now your visualized image is finally in your hands, and now you are eager to show it to somebody who can praise you for your new design but Wait.

This is the time to re-analyze the starting core concept and the final outcome. How far have you achieved? You will definitely give you 100 marks but let’s have a cross-check.

  • Check if the size ratio of text and images is correct or not? Use small text size for sleekness and big text size for giving focus.
  • Check if the colors you have used are kissing your eyes or not? Use a combination of dark shades or light-dark shades rather than fully light colors.
  • Check if you have placed a significant amount of text too to describe your core message or not?
  • Check if there is any content missing?

Though there is no pre-defined mechanism available to judge the capabilities of a designer, yes by following these certain steps, you can advantage yourself in this fast-paced competitive world, where you don’t have enough chances to make errors and then correct them.

Prepare your Business for the Future.

An image has the power to communicate a message in a more effective and better way. Also, it explains the complex message much faster than a paragraph. This will undoubtedly be the most important tactic for companies to grab the audience’s attention in the near future.

It is a known fact that Internet users have little patience and switch from one page to another in a few seconds. The best way to maintain your attention span is by creating attractive and captivating graphics. One of the best examples of image communication is the symbol-based language of emoji. Also, the major search engine highlights the importance of improving image searches.

Your company logo, website design and marketing materials choosing colors, and font gives visitors the first impression of what your business and company are like. A graphic designer knows how to manipulate these elements to make sure your clients perceive you in a positive light. Remember, while a weak brand is instantly forgotten, a strong brand is hard to forget.

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