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Graphic Designer Illinois

The career of graphic designer is an exciting one that has many different opportunities, from working for a major corporation to owning your own online graphic design business. This article explores some of the things an aspiring graphic designer needs to take into consideration.
1. Local Companies
2. Graphic Design is Everywhere
3. What does a Graphic Designer Do?
4. Education
5. Featured Local Company

1. Local Companies

Mauge, Inc.
773-395-9919
1629 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL
el emar design, llc
312.622.3826
324 north jefferson
chicago, IL
Ross Fishman Marketing
847-432-3546
1356 St Johns Ave
Highland Park, IL
Kris Hadlock New Media Design/Development
773.252.6968
1429 N. Artesian Ave. #1
Chicago, IL
The Presentation is Everything
312-479-1885
400 East South Water Street
Chicago, IL
Tandemodus
630 222-5353
3741 North Oakley Ave. 1st Floor
Chicago, IL
Madeleine Kemeny
847 866-8636
924 sherman avenue
Evanston, IL
Creative X-Ray, Inc.
800 249-3313
1460 St. Paul Avenue
Gurnee, IL
TrueNetwork Solutions, Inc.
312-656-5831
9399 West Higgins Road
Chicago, IL
IA Collaborative
312-337-2126
215 West Institute Place
Chicago, IL


2. Graphic Design is Everywhere

Unless you're a student of graphic design or somehow involved in the business you probably don't notice many of the ways in which graphic design is implemented. However, once you realize what graphic design entails, you'll see that it's impossible to miss many of the examples of graphic design we are all exposed to every day. For example, if you have opened a candy wrapper or struck a match, you have seen an example of graphic design.

In much the same way that a writer works with words, the graphic designer works with visual images that are used to convey information. These visual images, which are often a combination of mediums, are often combined with text in order to convey a message. Business cards, newspapers, magazines, and billboards are just a few examples of graphic design at work.

Graphic designers have a diverse area to choose from when they decide to work in this field. The Internet has even broadened the spectrum when it comes to graphic design jobs as many of these jobs are now online, such as web design. Many graphic designers specialize and create things like logos, while other graphic designers take on a variety of assignments.

3. What does a Graphic Designer Do?

Some graphic designers design their own artwork to use in their career while others use software or stock photos in their various projects. Since graphic design uses a combination of various visual mediums, there is no one type of art used in this job. Before the advent of the Internet, graphic designers often sketched their ideas and some still do, but today, graphic design software is a popular format that these creative artists use to accomplish their tasks.

Graphic designers have to be concerned with more than just images, though. For example, if an artist is designing a product package, he or she also has to be concerned with the proper formatting of the text that is to go along with the design creation in order to present a fully formed and aesthetically pleasing package. This is the same situation graphic designers face when working with magazines or newspapers.

Some graphic designers will work with moving images, such as those artists that create video game graphics and animation. While this is more than a stone's throw from designing logos, they both fall under the umbrella of graphic design. Even something as mundane as road signs are created by graphic designers.

4. Education

Regardless of how much natural talent and creativity you might possess, you will most likely need some type of formal education in order to find employment as a graphic designer. This does not take into consideration the option of opening your own graphic design business, which we'll discuss later in this article. There are a variety of ways to go about getting an education in graphic design and we'll discuss some of those briefly here.

Much like other occupations, those involving graphic design are usually commensurate with education and experience. It really depends on what type of graphic designer you want to be as to what type of education you want to pursue. For example, if you want to design webpages, an education at a vocational school would suffice. You would learn how to use graphic design software and you would learn about other elements of digital design. This type of education would not teach anything about art or drawing; instead it would focus on computerized elements of graphic design.

If you're more interested in a graphic design career that would implement your own sketches and drawings, you would probably need to pursue a degree in fine arts. While there are some entry level positions offered to those with an associate's degree, the higher end graphic design jobs usually require a bachelor's degree.

5. Featured Local Company

Bad Monkey Circus Ad Agency

312.327.6600
28 E. Jackson Blvd. Suite 1020 M/S#B818
Chicago, IL
http://www.badmonkeycircus.com

We suck at advertising. We just suck far less than all the other ad agencies in Chicago. At times our thoughts and messages are not always politically correct but our belief in sporting brutally frank lines of communications in everything we do, work, family - it is our way of life. Our job is to create a selling message built to relate - be understood, striking the core deep inside the consumer bridging that gap and build brand loyalty. So no matter if it is self-deprecating humor or a little too honest information - BMC is where art and commerce collide, creating a vibe no other agency can offer.

The approach...

We are not for everyone. And everyone is not for us. We want clients who are not risk-averse. To take some chances. To understand the role of BMC as their ad agency and embrace us as being on their side. To see your business from another perspective. To be fiercely loyal but not blindly obedient. We want clients who get it. Plain and simple.
 
The greatest risk is being ignored! 
 
BMC is an agency founded on the simple idea that the work should be smart and connect with your customer. With that way of thinking, we do not play lowest common denominator roulette by dumbing down the work. It wastes money and insults consumers. We create ideas with an IQ.
 
We bask in the continual sense of dissatisfaction
 
We realize everything we do is subject to the ultimate judge: the marketplace. We never stop listening to that little voice in our head (fret not - we are in therapy for this), we can always do better - so do not be satisfied. It is our genetic makeup, this unceasing need to improve and grow things.
 
By employing those simple tactics and using real world social truisms, customers feel bonded to the brand because an ad or TV spot spoke to them. Not at. It made them smile. Or think. Or pick up the phone. And that is why bad monkey circus exists. To elevate the level of work and make the bottom line healthier.

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