Horatio Farquaar asked:


Ever wondered how some graphic designers always manage to produce beautiful looking designs for their brochures, website designs, logo designs? Talent…yes, it helps but there are a handful of more important things you can do that will have even complete beginners producing award winning design.

Forget everything you’ve ever been told about Graphic Design

There are some hard and fast things that graphic designers will insist are to be obeyed. Only use limited fonts on a design for example or never use green on a magazine or book cover as people will not buy it. Stuff and nonsense. You can pretty much do whatever you like but you must apply these STRICT GRAPHIC DESIGN RULES and you will soon be walking away with graphic design silverware.

Somewhere on the page you MUST put in a subliminal message

This can be done in a multitude of ways for example if you are producing a brochure selling wellington boots then start every paragraph spelling out ‘buy our wellington boots’ or better still ‘you have no choice but to buy our wellington boots now get out your cheque book and buy them – NOW!’ Another crafty method is to doctor images in photoshop so that on an innocent picture of a tree for example carved into the bark is a message along the lines of ‘U Luv Wellington boots’ You get the idea. just make sure it’s hidden away on a subliminal level and watch your sales go through the roof, quite literally

You MUST include a picture of a pretty girl smiling on your document or webpage

This works for 95% of products. Put simply would you rather read and look at pictures of industrial machinery or would you rather look at a pretty girl? It’s a no brainer right? Research has proven that mens brains are wired up to focus on girls smiles and of course their ******* and backsides. If you can somehow convince your client to put a ***** girl on there somewhere you can pretty much laugh yourself down to the bank. However, never ever put a muscle bound hunk on any design thinking it will work conversely for womens products. Research has shown that womens brains are only wired to think of shopping for clothes and chocolate, so putting a bare chested chippendale on the cover is going to see your business go down the dumper. Unless your product is for ********** merchandise in which case go ahead.

Shock and Awe – the guaranteed way to get your design work noticed and talked about

Perhaps the best example of this trick can be found widely used in the modern art world. Sharks in formaldahyde, unmade beds and plastic dolls melted together to sodomise each other. All these pieces of art have been much talked about and whether you find them to your taste or not are widely percieved as being breath takingly original. The same principal can and should be applied to your graphic design work or website design. Add a blood splattered severed willy in the centre of the page for example or how about using an excrement smear as a backdrop. Remember the important thing is to get people talking about your design work. Bad taste soon becomes acceptable once commonplace so be the first to do something outrageous and reap the rewards.

If you remember to apply at least one or two and ideally all 3 of these golden graphic design rules there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be a millionaire/billionaire within one or two months. Now get creative!

Anirban Bhattacharya asked:


When vying for a commercial successful website, one cannot really afford to ignore the need for a professional graphic design powered by custom web development and overall search engine friendliness. Per se, there are various facets to a good looking corporate graphic design and one of them is called anti-aliasing.

A term often used in connection with graphic cards and computer games; Anti-aliasing is integral to a nice and smooth professional graphic design across digital media. The method is used to discernibly smooth the rough edged texts and images in any online game, graphic card or website to give it a more corporate look.

A deeper look into how anti-aliasing works, reveals that it involves no magic but purely smarter handling of the graphics at hand. Anti-aliasing achieves a smoother look for the texts and graphics by rendering the edges less obvious for the human eyes, thus only fooling the viewer’s eyes that the image is now minus a jagged look. The finer texts and graphics in turn reinforce a corporate graphic design impression in the psyche of the audience at large and win better response for the game/ graphic card/ website etc.

The secret behind anti-aliasing can be easily realized by magnifying the text before and after anti-aliasing. An analytical eye would take no time in understanding what anti-aliasing does to any text/ graphic. The method when implemented simply blurs the edges of the text, which looks neat and corporate like for any professional graphic design when reduced manifolds in size within the template. It naturally increases the calculations to be done on the computer monitor to achieve the professional look for the graphic design, and hence a bit slower uploading time.

While the jagged look is an outcome of the basic limitation of a computer screen, which is made up of multitude of pixels and draws any subject using horizontal and vertical lines, Anti-aliasing basically incorporates gentle color changes around the edges to give them a blended look.