North Middlesex Regional High School mural project
What is graphic design? from AIGA Career Guide
Graphic design is a part of your daily life. From things like gum wrappers to huge things like billboards and the T-shirt you’re wearing. Graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure to common objects and everyday images.
Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography.
I teach the art and science of Visual literacy, which is defined as the ability to create, comprehend, and communicate effectively using visual language.
Work in Progress for our new logo created by Mauve T class of 2014

Helpful Resources & Graphic Design Links
lynda.com (some free tutorials)
vectortuts.com (Adobe Illustrator)
www.psdtuts.com (Adobe Photoshop)
http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/
http://edexchange.adobe.com/pages/home
AWSOME Photoshop INTRODUCTION to the workspace download PDF
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