Top 7 Rules of Graphic Design

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Top 7 Rules of Graphic Design
S w a r a n P r o f e s s i o n a l s
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In the world of creativity and graphic designing,
the rules get beaten or bent more often because
an infringement of the rules can bring uniqueness
in the projects and the designs that are made by
different designers. But whatever it may, there
is something which must stay intact. In the
current scenario, when everyone wants to grab
the scope of becoming a graphic designer, you
must be rooted in a particular set of rules which
are never meant to be BROKEN! Here are top 7
graphic designing rules, and if you miss
following even any of them, you can get the
result as visually trembling designs while losing
the credibility of your work in front of your
audiences.
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Start with a good designing idea
Everything good starts with a good idea! Graphic
designing is the visual presentation of a
specific concept that you have been a yearning
in your mind since long. It may take 1000 bad
ideas to come up with the award-winning solo
good idea. All you need to be is very consistent
and passionate about having good ideas which
force you to do good works.
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Start with a good designing idea
Everything good starts with a good idea! Graphic
designing is the visual presentation of a
specific concept that you have been a yearning
in your mind since long. It may take 1000 bad
ideas to come up with the award-winning solo
good idea. All you need to be is very consistent
and passionate about having good ideas which
force you to do good works.
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Maintain the consistency
A creative mind is like a completely new blank
canvas and you can add colours to it according
to your choice. But while working as a graphic
designer, you need to be mindful about what you
are working on. If you are working for a brand
and helping them in designing their brand
recognition, you have to make sure that you
follow the same design everywhere, they are
present. Also, you have to be very consistent
about the colour palette that you are using
while creating the design and the font type and
size you are choosing either.
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Dont reinvent the wheel
being creative doesnt mean that you always have
to create something. If there is something true
and tried, you dont need to change that until
you get an excellent reason to do so. No one can
stop you from creating stunning designs, but you
need to have reasons behind every design that
you make. For example, you will not put red text
in a black background, will you? Or your design
must follow from left to right. There are also
reasons behind your logo to be placed at the top
of your website. Those are the obvious and
considerable points that you must keep as they
are and dont need to try and change them at all.
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Be conscious about every detail
Designing is something which seeks for immense
attention, and you need to give beyond your 100
per cent while creating the designs. All the
elements that you choose while crafting a design
must be of suitable pixel and can be used in
every size. You must know the difference between
identical fonts (Like Arial and Helvetica are two
different fonts). Nowadays, all the designs are
made using modern software. Thus, there is no
reason for not being perfect. You must also know
which font will be perfect for your target
audience and which colour codes will be more
attention-seeking while keeping up the value of
your brand as well.
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Maintain Proportional Scaling
Scaling is an element while designing. Whether
you are working on Photoshop, Illustrator or
another designing website, you can find a scale
on the top of everything which helps you to
maintain the equilibrium among the elements,
texts and precisely the letters that you use in
the design. You need to be sure that you are
using proper scaling in your graphics. If you are
using any image as one of the elements of your
design, you need to make sure that you dont
stretch that much and make it look terrible and
unprofessional.
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Count on your audiences opinion
Being a designer all, you must ask for who trust
your work and appreciate your work more than
anything. But you dont earn them for free. It
takes your perseverance and observation to get
them. You must have your favourite clients who
like whatever you do, but that doesnt mean that
you are all set to win the world. There are
still many in your target audience list who did
not like your previous work. But if they havent
liked your design, there must be some good
reasons behind that. On the contrary, you also
must not judge your designs to be wrong because
your client who has a bad taste of colours did
not like it.
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Please keep it simple
Less is always more and that is true at least
while creating great graphic designs. You create
something which suits your purpose or can reflect
the type of business you are doing. But if you
try to create something which is nowhere
representing your business type, how you can
expect your target audiences to understand what
your logo is trying to say?. If some elements
dont have any good reason for being at your
design must be ignored from being there. For me,
the less complicated is the design, the more
benefits you can expect from it.
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