WHAT IS GRAPHICS DESIGNING ?

Aasalamu Alaikum, welcome to my article, I'm your teacher M.SABIT KHAN

And today is Class No. 1 of Graphic Design Theory! Today's class may be tiny, butit's quite an important topic.And, well, I must explain everything to you all.So that you can start the process of thinking on your works.See one thing to always keep in mind, that whenever we make something, there's a lot of anticipation behind it.How to get that anticipation, you'll find it out in these classes. Right? So c'mon let's start!So first of all let me tell you, "graphic design" is having two words.And...This part is what you've seen in my classes till now,like on Illustrator whatever we have made so far.Those are all "Graphics". Understand? so I'm gonna remove it for now.The key thing you must be understood first,that is..."Design"!Okay.So what exactly is Design? Design is simply...a solution.And what's the solution for?Of course, of a problem, of a task.To perform or to achieve anything,We gotta bring out solutions somehow.So for example, if I talk about a simple design, say...a chair.Now, for sitting I can even use the stonebut even you know, that won't be much comfortable. Right? Or, if I want to sit on blocks or bricks, obviously I can.But what's the purpose of a chair?Chair is solving you a problem- that you're sitting,there's a backrest given so that you can keep your back comfortable.This was a problem, that humans needed to sit, and to create something for it.So remember, there was a problem, and behind it...there was a thinking process, on what to do to keep people comfortable when they sit.Alright?So this was a problem, with it came the thinking, and after thinking, came the solution.The solution was to give a flat surface,keep it above the ground, and make it so much solid, so it doesn't break when a person sit.Then the necessity of keeping the back comfortable was identified,so the backrest was included.It got more peaceful to sit.Then when people started wondering where to keep their hands,like this chair of mine, it doesn't have any handrest.Thus you've seen many chairs have the handrest too. Right? Now different things that are being innovated, remember that Design is an evolution.It's a continuous process, with the passage of timevarious changes come in Design. But...One basic thing is still unmoved,at the very first someone has made the chair. Right?And that was an amazing design.Just like that, if you notice the smaller designs...Screwdriver, what's its purpose?To open a screw!Now again here was the problem, we have made the screw and put on surfacenow how to open it?So to open it, a tool was made.That making, that process of thinking, and then to provide a solution,that is a Design!So let's accept that Design is a solution,but what's its range? Like which... on which level will a design be considered a good solution, or...sometimes the solution isn't that great but becomes appealing to the eyes.So if I explain the types of Design,we usually have a long range of design types,sometimes we have songs on our designs.Yes, songs are a type of design too.But remember one thing, all the designs on this side,those are just for... pleasure. And you can say, these are aesthetics.And what are aesthetics? Something that pleases you, something that's pleasurable.

Some examples are- songs, paintings, abstract arts.Sometimes... like...Even photography, also an art, it's a design. But what are the purposes (of aesthetics)?If you see any pictures, maybe you get a message sometimes,but sometimes there's no message either.It's just for pleasure, you just feel good by seeing it.There are some things, you feel happy when you see.Yes we can say, here the mood also gets included.Ahh...At this side are the designs related to these elements.with which you get pleasure, your moods get good or bad depending on your perception.And so on.Now if we come to the other side,we can see Functional type.So, what is a Functional Design?Functional Design is where you give someone a message.For example, a quite amazing message you all may've seen,This kind of sign, given on the roads.What does it mean? See there's nothing appealing here, but this is functional.Noticing it, you easily understand that it means not to park, aka "No Parking". Right?And similar signs like that, suppose if you see a spray can,any kind of spray can, behind it there's a small triangle symbol drawn, and there's a fire drawn inside.I made the fire quite badly, I'm sorry. (😣) But, yes what does it mean? To keep (the can) away from fire, it's flammable! It can catch fire! So keep in mind, these all are functional designs.And on that side it's about aesthetics.Now if I give examples, a real-life one,I'll definitely talk regarding my fields,but you can relate it to anything.So as many of you know,I was a mobile app designer for a long time and still continuing,In our field, there's a field called "User Interface" or UI,and another one called "User Experience" or UX, that I write here.Keep in mind, User Experience is more functional,here we design like, a mobile app, the screen it displays at start, then what to show and so on,what options will come on which tapping,these all are designed first, that how to make things work!And then we plan on how to make it beautiful.So now as you've got this small hint,about what Design actually is and the fact that its spectrum is much wider.Now remember that...Design can be aesthetically pleasing, or functional too.And keep in mind that our target to a greater designlies in this middle.Which will both be aesthetically pleasing, and functional.But, keep in mind that we should always cover this part (functional),then later ponder about what to do with it (aesthetics).This part should be covered first, meaningit's more important to be functional.So now you've understood all this, now just keep in mind that Design is not beautification, it's not decoration,it's not any adornment.if...a newbie starts graphic designing, usually he/she thinks adding more colours,using different styles of fonts and it'll looking beautiful;it won't! It's not like that.Actually we have to think about the Design,all those things if you start understanding now, then yes your target of being a great logo designer...well being logo designer is yet to be happening, but before that we have to understand lots of things here, about how a design works properly. Remember, the real purpose of a Design is problem-solving. Our target is this point, where both these parts get covered,what will be our functionality and how it'll look like.But be sure, this part (functional) must be No. 1, and this (aesthetics) be No. 2.Okay dear? And here in No. 2, whatever will be used here,those are actually graphics.In graphics there are some elements,we will discuss them too.In our upcoming classes we'll discuss it, the graphics.Today's session was all about Design.And I hope you've understood these small informations.I'll strongly suggest to Google all these, research a bit, about at Design actually is.Please, if you believe Design is all about beautification and decorations,it's nothing like that! Throw this notion out of your brains.Now properly thinking and planning, we'll create things.You'll yourself enjoy it, dude.Graphic Design is... an entirely different subject! So I hope you've loved this session, THANK YOU GUYS.........