Essential Questions

1. How do interpersonal and employability skills effect your everyday life and your future?

Interpersonal skills allow my life through communication. You have to have the knowledge to know how to communicate and associate with different kinds of people. Furthermore, employability skills allow me to try and find a job easier. It shows the employer your skills and allows you to give a good impression to others.

2. What is graphic design and why is it important to communicate visually?

Graphic design is a creative way to combine art and technology to share ideas. It is important to communicate visually because it ideas allow us to describe our creative thoughts without needing to say a word.
3. Why is it important to identify safety issues and to safely operate equipment utilized in the classroom?

Safety issues are important in order to keep someone safe. Without safety procedures, people would be injured and it is important to keep people out of harm when utilizing equipments.

4. What are the elements of design and how are they incorporated into a design?

The elements of design are line, shape, color, space, form, texture, and value. These element of designs make up how a design looks like. They all contribute to create the outcome of the design.

5. What is a vector-based design and how is it created?

A vector-based design is a design tool that uses vectors to create images and designs. Images are made with connected vectors that form the design.

6. How is color used effectively in graphic design?

Color can be used as mood influences. For example, red can indicate anger or violence. Furthermore, a color's saturation can contribute to the mood. Color theory can evoke different moods as a combination of different colors can combine to produce a different mood than the original color. More so, the use of color can effectively catch an observer's eye if used with the right color scheme.

7. What is a raster-based image and how is it created?

In computer graphics, a raster graphics image is a dot matrix data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.  It is created by editing the pixels of images.

8. How does the manipulation of size and resolution affect digital images?

Digital images are made of pixels that give shape to the image. By manipulating these pixels, the size and resolution can be altered. By changing the size of the image, we can determine what object can be big or small to fit in the digital image. By changing the resolution of the picture, the image can be seen more clearly or more blurry.

9.What is the function of the type within a design?

Type uses functions such as serifs, ascenders, and descenders to give a font to the design. These font give off feeling and changes the mood of the design. The fonts are able to give off a variety of moods that will suit to the mood that the design conveys. 
10.How do designers use a page layout program? 

The page layout program allows designers to precisely assemble text and graphic parts on a page. These page layout programs are able to control every element in the page and allows designers to easily alter changes to their work.

 11.  What steps does a designer take to design a page layout from concept to final product?

Designers sort their elements of their design in the specific order they want and assemble their text easily. Furthermore, they can adjust the size of their design.

12. What are the key developments in the history of visual communication?  How did these developments shape our industry?

The development of writing/type was one of the key development of visual communication. These words were able to show communication through paper, text, etc. More so, the development of typography was a huge change as visual communication was able to be send through far distances. More modern visual communication, such as television and computer are able to send visual communication through distances over a long period of time.
13. What careers are available within the field of graphic designer? What profession are associated with the industry?

Mac Operator, Senior Designer, Art/Creative Designer, Packaging Designer, Advertising/Marketing,etc are available for graphic designers. They are able to find jobs in companies such as newspaper, magazines, publishers, magazines, websites, soft drink companies, museums, restaurants, etc.
14. Would I want to become an Illustrator or Graphic Designer? Explain.

I may consider becoming an Illustrator or Graphic Designer; however, it is not my first priority. I find graphic designs to be fun but I am not too experienced with the career and my sense of creativity/art skills are not that great. However, I find it to be fun and may consider a career in it.