Associates Degree in Graphic Design Bachelors Degree in Visual Communications Where Creativity Starts & Comes to Life…

 Graphic Design is a creative process involving a client & a designer. The designer usually completes a form of procedures using printers, programmers, and sign makers trying to convey a specific message to a targeted audience.  “Graphic Design” is also referred to as Visual Communications.  Visual Communications is using symbols, images and creative words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages.  It was created by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922  Graphic Design is a creative process involving a client & a designer. The designer usually completes a form of procedures using printers, programmers, and sign makers trying to convey a specific message to a targeted audience.  “Graphic Design” is also referred to as Visual Communications.  Visual Communications is using symbols, images and creative words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages.  It was created by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922

Graphic Designers often use multiple computer software to create designs, such as:  Adobe Photoshop  Adobe Illustrator  Adobe Dream Weaver  Adobe In-Design Designers also create hand-rendered comps and thumbnail sketches during the preliminary phase as part of the creative thinking process. Graphic Designers often use multiple computer software to create designs, such as:  Adobe Photoshop  Adobe Illustrator  Adobe Dream Weaver  Adobe In-Design Designers also create hand-rendered comps and thumbnail sketches during the preliminary phase as part of the creative thinking process.

 Visual Communications is my major and the way I determine what it means to me, is it’s the creative speckle to ones eye.  Visual Communications/Graphic Design requires judgment, creativity, critical & observational thinking.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design & modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created & modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves a selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading & adjusting space between letters. Typography is performed by typesetters, compositions, typographers, graphic designers, art directors, comic book artists, graffiti artists & clerical workers. Digitalization, also known as the “Digital Age” opened up typography to new generations of visual designers & layout users. There are over 10,000 different typefaces used in creating typography. Some well known typefaces are: Helvetica, Garamond, Baskerville & many, many more.

1.Nicholas Jenson- ( )- The First Old Style Faces 2.William Caxton- ( )- The First English Language Book 3.Aldus Manutius- ( )- The First Book Publisher 4.Claude Garamond- ( )- The First Type Foundry 5.William Caslon- ( )- The First British Newspaper Standard 6.John Baskerville- ( )- The First “Book” Faces & “Hot Pressed” Paper 7.Paul Simon Fournier- ( )- The First to Develop the Point Measurement System 8.Francois Didot- ( )- The First Didot Point System of Measuring Type 9.Giambatista Bodoni- ( )- The Father of the “Modern” Type Style 1.Nicholas Jenson- ( )- The First Old Style Faces 2.William Caxton- ( )- The First English Language Book 3.Aldus Manutius- ( )- The First Book Publisher 4.Claude Garamond- ( )- The First Type Foundry 5.William Caslon- ( )- The First British Newspaper Standard 6.John Baskerville- ( )- The First “Book” Faces & “Hot Pressed” Paper 7.Paul Simon Fournier- ( )- The First to Develop the Point Measurement System 8.Francois Didot- ( )- The First Didot Point System of Measuring Type 9.Giambatista Bodoni- ( )- The Father of the “Modern” Type Style

My name is Michelle Airdo…I am an artist and graphic designer living in the suburbs outside of Chicago. My Goal is to be a future Graphic Designer when I graduate from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago. My Major is: BFA in Graphic Design. The two biggest people who inspire me are my mom & Milton Glaser, a famous graphic designer. Art, Graphic Design, Photography & Music are my passions. I love to be creative. That’s why I absolutely love art because you’re always creating something different. I owe a huge thanks to my mom for inspiring me to have an artistic ability and a knowledge for creativity. I Graphic Design

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