Tips for Fresh Graphic Designers

Graphic Designers don’t always have it easy. After attending a graphic designing course, they still have to challenge themselves every time; they make any form of Graphic Design. A lot of times there is a gap between what the client wants and the visualization and skill of the graphic Designer. Are you presently taking a graphic designing course in Delhi or anywhere else or working as a graphic Designer, then the following tips would be of great help.

1. Follow Design Blogs and be a part of an Online Design community:

You cannot be a well-rounded graphic designer even after a graphic designing course without following design blogs and joining a design community. This would afford you the opportunity of being abreast with the new design trends and also help you solve issues which you may come across while carrying out your graphic Design job. Icanbecreative.com is a very good design blog that you can follow and howdesign.com is also a very good online design community that you can be a part of before, during and after pursuing a graphic designing course in Delhi.

2. Find the right Design software that works for you:

Adobe Photoshop is about the commonest graphic designing software and is the heart of most graphic designing courses, but you don’t necessarily have to use Photoshop, if it doesn’t soothe you. No one cares about the process of design apart from the student and his/ her institute, every other person concern themselves with the finished product. You can use Corel draw, illustrator, InDesign, Quark Xpress or even Xara. All these software have their strengths and weakness and only a graphic designer can choose the one that personally soothes him the most.

3. Build a design library:

As a student or a professional graphic designer, you would be doing yourself a lot of good by being a design collector. Design is a totally creative process, and is not in black and white, there are different fields of thought and ideas that birth different designs. A graphic Designer should be open to new ideas and have a lot of design work in his library. This would expose the designer to the creative processes of other designers, leading to a better designer. The design library would also be a very useful tool for inspiration. A good graphic design library includes

• Collection of seriff/ sans seriff fonts, script fonts, OTF special character based fonts and Dingbats.

• High resolution images and other royalty free photo stocks library.• Library of Photoshop Brushes, Gradients, Shapes, Image curves, Action and

Textures.• Library of layout templates inclusive of stationary designs, brochures, catalogues,

annual books, coffee table books made in InDesign and other similar applications.• Students should also need to like facebook pages of designers and design

companies to keep them abreast of technology and to get new updates.

4. Attend Lectures, Seminars and Festivals:

This can never be over emphasized; graphic design training doesn’t start and end with a graphic designing course in Delhi or anywhere else in the world. The Designer has to constantly expose himself to design festivals, design competitions, seminars, shows and galleries. This would help to network as a designer not only to improve the designer’s taste but also to help get design jobs. In India there are certain good expos such as Kyoorius Design yatra, comicon, NID inhouse events, media expo etc to be witnessed by students from time to time basis.

5. Learn good work ethics:

Learn how to race against the clock in producing good designs, in order to get an edge in the very competitive world of Graphic Design. Client satisfaction, working within the stipulated deadline and consistency are qualities that can either break or make a graphic Designer.

5. Use Social Media:

Learn to harness the power of social media in displaying your designs and design concepts. This would help you get more jobs and also get feedback from potential clients. For more tips for graphic designers, attend a graphic design seminar at TGC India.TGC Animation and Multimedia (www.tgcindia.com) is flag bearer in graphic design training in India, in the last 14 years TGC has trained more then 14000 students most of them working in some of the leading design companies in India and abroad.

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