Category: Graphic Design

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis tells of her life from the age of 10 to 14 during the Islamic Revolution. It all started by telling all women to wear a veil. Boys and girls are separated at Marji’s French school. Marji decided to become a prophet because he saw that there were many problems in the world that he thought could be solved. Sometimes you express your emotions to God. Marji’s parents participated in anti-government demonstrations. He discovered that his family had been persecuted by the Shah for many years.

Marji tries to read as much as possible to understand the history of his country and the various forms of government. Based on Satrapi’s graphic novel, chronicles his life in Iran and Europe before and after the revolution. This film tells the story of Satrapi’s transformation from a boy to a rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. The background is the increasingly tense political situation in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s, the imprisonment and subsequent murder of his free-minded family, and the tragic war between Iran and Iraq. Satrapi is the only child of Western adoptive parents. His father is an engineer and his mother is a fashion designer.

He grew up in Deherne and attended a French high school. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his familyu2019s Western lifestyle attracted the attention of the Iranian authorities. In 1984, her parents decided to move her to Austria to attend school. A failed relationship exacerbated her sense of isolation, leaving her homeless and taking drugs. He returned to Dean to study art at the age of 19 and returned to Europe after a brief marriage in 1993. In France, he graduated in art and lived permanently in Paris in the mid-1990s. In France, Satrapy published ‘Persepolis 1’ (2000) and ‘Persepolis No. 2’ (2001), which were translated into English in 2003 and incorporated into ‘Persepolis: History of childhood’. He uses simplified graphic methods influenced by German Expressionism to convey his growth story in Persepolis De Hearn.

This is a story familiar to Western readers: during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), a restless girl who liked Nike shoes and rock music was arrested and imprisoned while wandering in a bombed city. being threatened. Persepolis, described as visual memory, combines the structure of a picture book with prose narrative. Satrapi’s novel was made into the movie ‘Persepolis’ (2007) and was nominated for an Oscar for the best-animated film. ‘Persepolis 3’ and ‘Persepolis 4’ were released in France in 2002 and 2003 respectively and merged into ‘Persepolis 2: The Story of Return’ in 2004. Persepolis 2 Since the end of Persepolis, Satrapi has been in Europe. Instead, family and friends who should have lived with Satrapi took her to the boarding house, and her life soon fell apart. He went to visit his parents in Iran but felt out of place.

1. Executive Summary:

Is diversity increasing innovation opportunities in the graphic design team? Since innovation is an important scale of modern organizations, all teams are searching for ways to improve their innovation. Innovation is the winners of today’s market competition. If a business wants to be successful, they had to add innovation to their products and services. One way of increasing innovation is inclusion and diversity. In other words, innovation could bring opportunities for business. In this report, firstly the graphic design roles and teams will be discussed. Then the impact of this role in the Information Technology industry will be viewed.

Although the importance of innovation is clear to all industries and teams, in this report we will have a glance at its importance again. Then we will specify to its importance in a graphic design role. We will understand why should graphic designers be innovative? Next, the role of diversity in this innovation will be proved. Diversity has many kinds. Some of the are common these days. On the other hand, some kinds are rare and unfamiliar. This report will provide a lot of examples of all kinds of diversity in graphic design roles. Also, it will reveal some aspects of diversity and opportunities in the near and far future. At the end of the report, we will discuss the importance of controlling diversity in teams to increasing innovation, especially in graphic design roles.

2. What is the graphic design role?

2.1 description of graphic design role:

Graphic designers combine technology and communication ideas. They create visual concepts mostly by using the software. Knowing this software is necessary but it is not adequate. The thing that makes a graphic designer remarkable, is creativity. Graphic designers develop websites layout, logos, animations, brochures, books, and magazines, etc. Except than designing graphics, some important parts of their jobs include: Advice clients regarding their projects, try to understand clients’ tastes, do not apply their taste to the designs, determine what message should display, coordinating their designs with programmers. Graphic designers should be able to select the right colour tone, theme, font, size, and text. They also decide how images and text will go together on a page or screen, including how much space each will have. The core responsibility of the designers’ job is to present information in a way that is both accessible and memorable. They had to deliver the messages through graphic designs. As all know, a picture is worth more than one thousand words. So, the design had to be precise in the massage that carries. Otherwise, using that one thousand words would be worth it.

2.2 graphic designers’ skills:

As mentioned above, graphic designers had to communicate closely with many people in projects, such as clients, programmers, writers, marketing team and so on. If they want to have a great outcome, they had to communicate very well. So, besides software abilities, graphic designers should be good communicators and team members. Furthermore, being a graphic designer need analytical skills. They had to understand clients’ needs and meet these needs by an acceptable illustration. A good graphic design needs to follow design principles. For instance, designers could not use two irrelevant colours with each other. For example, in any designs, there is no pink and green colour beside each other. So, when a design is finished, they had to analyze it from a client perspective and a professional graphic designer view to find out its deficits. The most important skill of graphic designers is creativity. They must be able to think of new approaches to communicating ideas to consumers. They had to think out of the box and can leave influences on customers and non-customers. They can inspire from other designs but never they could not copy other designs. So creativity is an integral part of a designer role. Lastly, deadline-driven skill, which is mostly mutual between teamwork roles. It is so important to know time management in a graphic design position. As most graphic designers should handle many projects parallel, they had to know how to manage their time.

Graphic designers have distinct personalities. They tend to be artistic individuals, which means they’re creative, intuitive, sensitive, articulate, and expressive. They are unstructured, original, nonconforming, and innovative.

2.3 how do graphic designers show their abilities?

All graphic designers archive their artistic designs in their portfolio. Their portfolio shows their style and taste in design. For example, some graphic designers use natural objects in their designs such as flowers or trees, or some group more interested in 3d designs. In total, graphic designers show the level of their selves in design software and their style by their portfolio.

Mostly, graphic designers play a role in a team. The size of the team is based on the size of the organization. Even for small startups, mostly their hire one graphic designer per project. By contrast, a design company can hire hundreds of graphic designers. Mainly, graphic designers are hired by advertising agencies, studios, large print houses, brand agencies, software service providers, and multimedia companies. Graphic designers’ positions are mainly in the information technology industry. The next section is going to provide some information regarding this industry.

3. Which industry does hire graphic designers?

3.1 what is the information technology industry?

The information technology industry, the same as most other industries, is knowledge-based. According to the “Information Technology Association of America” definition, the information technology industry is encompassing all possible aspects of information systems based on computers. IT industry consists of software development and hardware. In other words, computer systems are used in the IT industry to the design, implementation, study, and development of it and management systems. Plus, the IT industry helps other industries such as manufacturers and services to improve. It means, a shift from system integration to services integration, and from a people-led and technology-assisted approach to one that is technology-led and people-assisted. In other words, most standard tasks and processes will be executed by increasingly autonomic systems that are data-driven, cognitive, and automated.

3.2 information technology services:

• Software development, integration, and maintenance
• Hardware
• Networking integration, management, and maintenance
• Information security (IS)
• It management consultants
• Mobile services
• Web applications
• Systems architecture
• Database design and development
• Testing
• Documentation

4. What is the relationship between innovation and graphic designers?

4.1 Why is innovation important for all businesses?

In this part, we will prove that why innovations are essential for each business. The key step in improving a business is innovation. Businesses can increase their profitability by using adding innovation. Hence, they can get more marketplace share rather than their competitors (Hamel, Tennant, 2015). So, being innovative is the requirement of growth in businesses. Till now we understand why innovation is essential to business life. Now the question is what is innovation and how can businesses use it?

Fundamentally, innovation means introducing something new to your business. Innovation can mean a single breakthrough – e.g. A new product or service. However, it can also be a series of small, incremental changes. The ideas may come from:

Inside the business, for example: from employees, managers or in-house research and development work.

Outside the business, for example: suppliers, customers, media reports, market research published by another organization, or universities and other sources of new technologies

Personal Mission Statement

I have always longed to be an artist who can inspire others through my own voice and vision. My passion for graphic design started to develop spontaneously since I learned how to read and write. I started making booklets of my own stories—mini graphic novels illustrated by my paintings. My friends enjoyed reading my novels, and I got fulfillment from having an audience in childhood. I began writing poems when I was twelve, and that was the conduit I chose to express my deep feelings. I learned how to play guitar as another medium for my creativity, and very soon, music became an important part of my life. I started composing my own songs and writing lyrics for them; I believe that music and art have the power to change the world as it has changed my world. The first music video that I made was about a girl who changed her world by her drawings on the walls of the prison where she was trapped. She gradually found a way out by imagining a big window open to freedom. This is how I believe in art and the way it can touch hearts. Now that I am getting my bachelor’s degree in fine art in design, still believing that art and design are two wings of the same bird, which give me the ability to inspire people, challenge taboos, make positive changes in people’s experience of life, and to sell your ideas and products in more effective ways.

Working as an interior designer back in Iran, helped me gain useful skills and improve my creativity. During my professional career, I realized that I have the ability to be an effective communicator with my clients, understand their specific needs, visualize their ideas, and use the full potential of budgets. I developed skills in set building and stage designing; later, this helped me to build a small functional studio where I record the vocals for my music. After I immigrated to the United States, I had the opportunity to take a variety of courses that expanded my educational horizons at Los Angeles Pierce College and later on at the University of Southern California. It was during this period that I learned to manage and balance a busy schedule while achieving academic success. Studying at Pierce College gave me the vision to make the right decision about my future. I earned degrees in Graphic Design, Social and Behavioral Science, and Arts and Humanities. After taking all these classes, I came to understand that I really appreciate art and design. My eyes were open to a new world of opportunities to improve my social and personal skills in that field.

Growing up in Iran, art, and poetry was integral part of my life and personality. I believe that my understanding of art is deep enough to use it as a powerful way of expression and meaning-making. Especially, in societies like Iran where most of the time directness can cause serious problems, art has a crucial function. Although women are not allowed to sing publicly in Iran, I was fortunate enough to produce music videos for my songs after immigration, and they were aired on several Persian satellite channels. My work in my music videos is not limited to acting and producing; it involves creating ideas and storyboarding, and other production processes such as set designing and video editing. One of my latest music videos has been officially selected in more than five international festivals and was the winner in two categories. This song/video is about an artist/activist who is in imaginary incarceration because of the message of her art. The goal of this video is to visualize for the audience, through a poetic vision, how simple things that we take for granted are heavily controlled and can lead to penal punishments in a country like Iran. My true music audience is people who still care about humanity and freedom of speech and believe in changing the world around us by fighting against injustice and oppression.

At USC, I received a broad education in graphic design, and I found myself especially interested in courses and projects focusing on experience and 3D design, and material studies, besides creating video and time-based media. Also, because of my interest in motion graphics, I started to get a minor in 3D animation. At the same time, I began working as a graphic design intern at the communication and marketing office of the Annenberg School of Journalism and in the second year at the Marketing office of Viterbi School of Engineering in an attempt to use the concepts I learned in the classroom and develop practical experience in design. I am eager to improve my design skills specially in the field of intermedia, motion graphics and, experience design.

Many people in related fields believe that an artist is an expressionist who doesn’t have to pitch their work or to sell themselves. Such individuals believe that artists don’t have to align client business goals with their work while desiners are skilled individual contracted to visualize the solution to a problem. I believe that both designers and artists are creative individuals who create their own visual interpretations and compositions with the skills and knowledge set they have, however, their reasons and motivations for engaging in those artistic areas might be totally opposite. This is true that most graphic artists are getting hired for specific projects and they have to deal with their clients’ certain needs and expectations, but it doesn’t mean that they couldn’t have their own certain style. It doesn’t mean that they are only computer applications operators and getting orders to recreate the stuff that already is out there in the market. Everybody can learn applications but the way you use them and what you create with them and how you engage people with the piece you’ve made, rather than its function as an advertisement or a self-reflective illustration, totally depends on your artistic vision and creativity.

There have always been debates on the commodification of art since all works of art are somehow for sale too. Artists have never been free from feudal ties before mid 19th century and that’s why most of the mainstream paintings should have been about monarchies or religious topics. I just want to admit that an artist can also consider his/her piece for sale, or even create it for a customer and it doesn’t mean that you can’t consider that piece as a work of art. A graphic designer that has his/her own style could be an illustrator who creates pieces that look almost as if they are fine art. It is right that they might often commissioned to create visuals for a specific project but it doesn’t refuse a graphic designer role as an artist who puts the project together, using the piece of art, along with type and perhaps other art to create a marketing solution or to convey an overall message.

I believe that my training and experience will add to my contribution to creative fields. I will learn from others, and the creative environments will give me the opportunity to grow into a more capable and creative artist in my own right. Working as a graphic artist is far beyond working with applications for me as I believe that words alone won’t suffice, and art alone isn’t enough, so a graphic designer puts the two together in a pleasing way that catches attention and delivers a message. That’s why I believe that I have to continuously broaden my artistic vision and improve my social and personal skills in visual communication while improving my design skills, and soaking up the inspiration from the other great artists around me. My eyes are open to a new world of opportunities as I have set my goal on pursuing a career as a media designer. At the same time, I hope to be able to make people more aware so they can in turn help others. The function of art is to raise awareness for society, and it is a tool to make people care about different things, such as the environment, children, poverty, politics and etc. I think as humans besides our careers, all of us are responsible for everything that happens around us. If we cannot change it, at least we can do the least to solve it in time.