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Photography Vs Graphic Design

Ari Krzyzek — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:03:41 +0000

Being a part of graphic design community and get involved with the creative mind and creations within it is enjoyable. The more creative artworks I see, the more blurry and difficult for me to differentiate one artwork to another. But when my friends and I were discussing about Frespiration! contents and artwork category, some of us disagree to include Photography category to the lists. They believe that photography is not part of graphic design, but part of cinematography, while others believe the opposite. This makes me think twice whether photography could be categorized under graphic design or not.

I read related article “art Vs. design” written by Craig A Elimeliah on AIGA Website. It explains the differences between the two of them and here’s what it defines for design:

A designer is similar to an engineer in that respect and must not only have an eye for color and style but must adhere to very intricate functional details that will meet the objectives of the project. The word “design” lends itself to a hint that someone or something has carefully created this “thing” and much planning and thought has been executed to produce the imagery or materials used for the project.

Bacio January 2009 Booklet Design

...in love Photography by Oprisco

Some reasons of why it’s blurry for us to see the difference between Photography and Design, that both of them created to aesthetically please the eyes and sometimes entertains the viewers. So, why can’t photography be categorized under graphic design? Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe wrote three views of photography and whether photography is beneficial to art or whether it is art at all.

The first view is that photography is not an art because it is produced with a mechanical device and by chemical and physical phenomenon not by hand and inspiration. The second view is that photographs would be useful to art but should not be equal in creativeness to painting and drawing. The final theory is that because photography is so similar to lithography and etching then it would be beneficial to the arts as well as culture.

The functions of graphic design are to solve the problem, to help visualizing information, to attract viewers’ attention/interest, and to make it a memorable artwork. For photography, the function are to documenting, to capture the moment, expose reality condition or expressions. This function become beneficial to graphic design in order to help designers to visualize the related information on the design. I do not say that I’m proficient on both of photography and design, but we now noticed that photography is part of graphic design, but still it is not categorized under graphic design. Photography artworks that have been edited or not will always be categorized under photography, whereas photography artworks which is combined with text and to support visualizing informations will always be categorized under graphic design.

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Begin to Make Website for Designer

Ari Krzyzek — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:38:22 +0000

For most Print Graphic Designer, design and create a website would be a challenging task to do. As much as we enjoy ourselves working on the artwork and layout for it, those principles on print designs won’t aesthetically pleasing as it is for the print designs. As a print graphic designer, it was quite confusing for me when I was being critiqued by my client for the web page I did for his company. I found that even though he isn’t a designer, he knows the real function of the web page and the customer’s vision flow when they are browsing the web. I searched more resources about them. And yes, even though it’s basically part of graphic design, web design has its own rules. From the illustration, color scheme, and typography, it’s all what we’ve been familiar with in print design, but in web design, pay more attention to the effects (ie. gradients or shadows) as well.

Below are some great links to articles that have helped me understanding more about website design. Hopefully they could be useful for you to :)

Part of the TutPlus website series from Envato to help providing designers about internet and websites.

A step to step tutorial to guide you designing and coding your first website.

Great blog and resources for web designer.

This article has 9 important things you should never underestimate when designing a blog web page, really useful and such a great reminder for designer ;)

And this last one is an article to prepare yourself to be ready in polishing your next web project professionally.

Good luck and have fun ;)

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$29.95 Book from SitePoint now FREE for ONLY 10 days!!

Ari Krzyzek — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:35:24 +0000

Yup, I’m not joking. What you read is F-R-E-E.
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This month, only until 14th September 2009, SitePoint is giving “The Principles of Successful Freelancing” book for free. This book is all about what you need to think, prepare and to do as a beginner in freelancing. It’s a handy guide to be your own boss and starting to grown your own business as internet freelancer. No matter what type of profession you are, this book will guide you to be a better prepared freelancer. So if you started to think to work away from the office or you just wanna learn more and getting advices before deciding to go freelancing, grab the book while it’s free just for 10 more days.

Go to this link to find more about the free book:
http://twitaway.sitepoint.com/

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