From the course: The Value of Professional Graphic Design
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What is the role of the graphic designer?
From the course: The Value of Professional Graphic Design
What is the role of the graphic designer?
- I hope we've established that graphic designers are an integral part of a business's success. The most successful relationships with a designer are collaborative. Graphic designers are remarkably skilled at taking complex issues and re-defining them into digestible pieces. Understanding what the designer's role is and isn't will help manage the relationship successfully. A graphic designer's role is, at its core, to communicate the client's message to the right audience successfully. This is possible by understanding the brand, competition, possible audiences, and message. Reaching this goal is different for every client, as every project is unique to a specific set of issues. Good graphic designers should be more concerned about the best way to communicate correct messages rather than making something cool, pretty or purple. It's the designer's job to work with a client to determine what the brand message is and if that message is the right one. Once this has been determined, the…
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