1. Meet or communicate with customers to understand what they want from the project and help them obtain these ideas in a feasible way.
2. Design advertisements, annual reports, artwork, books and their covers, brochures, logos, magazine covers, signs, stickers, T-shirts, web pages and other branding and communication materials.
3. Modify the design brief to make it closer to the client's budget and ideas.
4. Create designs, drawings or paintings by hand - or use computer software for similar purposes.
5. Propose ideas on how to implement customer projects.
6. Modify designs or project deliverables to meet specifications.
7. Learn how to use new software or programs.
8. Work as part of a team to create a larger design, or complete a small part of a larger project, such as perfecting a unique typeface.
9. Find other creative people such as photographers, writers or illustrators for specific projects.
Extended information:
Software required for graphic design
First: Photoshop, the only magic weapon for graphic designers, a powerful image processing software , usually used in conjunction with graphics production software such as illustrator/Coreldraw, it can also be used to edit and create pictures independently. Its powerful color recognition and graphics processing functions are an essential tool for every designer and the most important software in graphic design. .
Second: CorelDRAW is a professional vector drawing software. Its powerful vector drawing tools are widely used in logo design, powerful layout planning is used in typesetting and color separation output, and enhancement Its digital graphics capabilities are mainly used in many fields such as model making and illustration design.
Third: Illustrator, the industry standard illustration program for publishing, multimedia and online graphics. The powerful graphic creation function is favored by designers. Suitable for printing and publishing line drafts, professional illustrations, multimedia image production, and web page production. Compared with bitmaps produced by PS, vector images can be infinitely scaled without distortion and maintain clear image quality under any circumstances. They perform well in logos, LOGOs, special fonts, and cover drawings.
Compared with Illustrator, in the feedback from many users, everyone still agrees that CDR is better, both in terms of performance and operation. Both are vector drawing software, but CDR supports multi-page function, which is convenient for typesetting, and also has barcode production function.
Fourth: Indesign, a design software positioned in the field of professional typesetting, can complete designs with rich visual effects and is used in a variety of media including print publishing and online publishing. Indesign can Arrange the processed text and images as you wish, which greatly improves the designer's work efficiency. It also has some graphics drawing and image processing functions.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia-Graphic Design