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| Most Recent Posts New World Order for DummiesPosted Aug-16-08 23:41:44 PDT Tuesday, June 24, 2008 U.S. sues Monex, spinoffs for 1980s taxesGovernment seeks $378 million from Newport Beach precious metals dealer.By RONALD CAMPBELL The Orange County Register Monex, the giant Newport Beach precious metals dealer, is fighting the federal government again. The stakes this time: $378 million in taxes and penalties that the government says Monex has dodged for more than two decades. Monex attorney Michael Cohen predicted the U.S. would drop the lawsuit and settle the case "without any material impact on Monex's business." Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Pribe did not return two phone calls seeking comment. Starting 40 years ago with a Long Beach coin shop, Louis Carabini built Monex into a multibillion-dollar business. Along the way he has repeatedly battled the federal government in court over regulations and taxes. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission all have sued Monex or other Carabini companies. He has gotten the closest scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service. The new lawsuit, filed June 13 in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks to collect on a 1998 settlement for more than $100 million. With interest and penalties, the bill now totals $378.2 million, according to the complaint. But the 1998 settlement was with Monex International – a company that no longer exists. "The government is trying to recover tax obligations that are owed by an entity that hasn't been in business for over 10 years," Cohen said. Not so fast, the government says. The government alleges that Carabini and other Monex insiders shifted employees, office space, even phone numbers from Monex International to several new entities to avoid paying the tax bill. Those new entities – including PCCE Inc., Monex Credit Co. and Monex Deposit Co. – are new in name only, the government says. Monex created the new companies "in an attempt to escape liability for the federal tax liabilities of Monex International." Source: http://www.monexfraud.com Monex "Commitment to Service"On the Monex website the company makes the following claim: "Monex is committed to customer service. We are continually developing new policies, procedures and products to satisfy our customers' needs...and to maintain our long-held reputation as America's Trusted Name in Precious Metals Investments. We invite you to contact us at your earliest opportunity and give our service a try."
So let me get this straight, with no less than 21 complaints at the Better Business Bureau, at least five serious unanswered complaints at Ripoffreport.com, and a Better Business Bureau rating of F and they would have us believe that they are "committed to customer service"? That could easily be the most fraudulent claim of all! Try a Google search for "monex fraud" (with or without the quotes) and you might be surprised at what Monex' former customers are saying about Monex:
Wow, that's some customer service commitment right there! The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short VersionPosted Aug-15-08 17:29:20 PDT Monex "Commitment to Service"On the Monex website the company makes the following claim: "Monex is committed to customer service. We are continually developing new policies, procedures and products to satisfy our customers' needs...and to maintain our long-held reputation as America's Trusted Name in Precious Metals Investments. We invite you to contact us at your earliest opportunity and give our service a try."
So let me get this straight, with no less than 21 complaints at the Better Business Bureau, at least five serious unanswered complaints at Ripoffreport.com, and a Better Business Bureau rating of F and they would have us believe that they are "committed to customer service"? That could easily be the most fraudulent claim of all! Try a Google search for "monex fraud" (with or without the quotes) and you might be surprised at what Monex' former customers are saying about Monex:
Do not trust Monex, the company that buys and sells gold. Check out Monex on the BBB and you will see the truth.- To all those who have already invested with Monex may I say that I am truly sorry and I feel your pain.http://www.monexfraud.com I don’t know if this is horror story or not, judge it yourself! It was horrible for me.http://www.monexfraud.com Kevin said... Wow, that's some customer service commitment right there! U.S. sues Monex, spinoffs for 1980s taxesGovernment seeks $378 million from Newport Beach precious metals dealer.By RONALD CAMPBELL The Orange County Register Monex, the giant Newport Beach precious metals dealer, is fighting the federal government again. The stakes this time: $378 million in taxes and penalties that the government says Monex has dodged for more than two decades. Monex attorney Michael Cohen predicted the U.S. would drop the lawsuit and settle the case "without any material impact on Monex's business." Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Pribe did not return two phone calls seeking comment. Starting 40 years ago with a Long Beach coin shop, Louis Carabini built Monex into a multibillion-dollar business. Along the way he has repeatedly battled the federal government in court over regulations and taxes. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission all have sued Monex or other Carabini companies. He has gotten the closest scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service. In a series of cases the IRS demanded back taxes from 1975 through 1984. The IRS claimed that Monex dodged taxes by investing in abusive tax shelters. The new lawsuit, filed June 13 in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks to collect on a 1998 settlement for more than $100 million. With interest and penalties, the bill now totals $378.2 million, according to the complaint. But the 1998 settlement was with Monex International – a company that no longer exists. "The government is trying to recover tax obligations that are owed by an entity that hasn't been in business for over 10 years," Cohen said. Not so fast, the government says. The government alleges that Carabini and other Monex insiders shifted employees, office space, even phone numbers from Monex International to several new entities to avoid paying the tax bill. Those new entities – including PCCE Inc., Monex Credit Co. and Monex Deposit Co. – are new in name only, the government says. Monex created the new companies "in an attempt to escape liability for the federal tax liabilities of Monex International." Source: http://www.monexfraud.com buy goldbuy gold bullionbuy silverbuying gold bulliongold coingoldbarsmonexmonex goldmonex.+comprecious metals trading1797 coins1797 coin1797 britannia coin2.50 gold piece2.50 gold coins2.50 gold coin19k gold23k gold22k gold bangles22k goldThe Real Gangsters in AmericaPosted Jun-26-08 14:28:38 PDT This video is not for the faint of heart! I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but the truth needs to be told. Viewer discretion is advised! This video is not for the faint of heart! I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but the truth needs to be told. The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may utilize typography, visual arts and page layout techniques in varying degrees to produce the final result of the project. graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.Common uses of graphic design include magazines, advertisements, product packaging and web design. For example, a product package might include a logo or other artwork, organized text and pure design elements such as shapes and color which unify the piece. Composition is one of the most important features of graphic design especially when utilizing pre-existing materials or using diverse elements.History of graphic designgraphic design spans the history of humankind from the caves of Lascaux to the dazzling neons of Ginza. In both this lengthy history and in the relatively recent explosion of visual communication in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they share many of the same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience."[2]EarlyThe paintings in the caves of Lascaux around 14,000 BC and the birth of written language in the third or fourth millennium BC are both significant milestones in the history of graphic design and other fields which hold roots to graphic design.The Book of Kells is an early example of graphic design. It is a lavishly decorated hand-written copy of the Gospels of the Christian Bible created by Celtic monks around 800AD.The Invention of Printing Main article: History of printingDuring the Tang dynasty (618–906) bettween the 4th and 7th century A.D. wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts. A Buddhist scripture printed in 868 is the earliest known printed book. Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing making books widely available during the Song dyanasty (960–1279).[3] Sometime around 1450, Johann Gutenberg's printing press made books widely available in Europe. The book design of Aldus Manutius developed the book structure which would become the foundation of western publication design. This era of graphic design is called Humanist or Old Style. [4]The Start of Industrial DesignIn late 19th century Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, the movement began to separate graphic design from fine art. Piet Mondrian is known as the father of graphic design. He was a fine artist, but his use of grids inspired the modern grid system used today in advertising, print and web layout. [5]From 1892 to 1896 William Morris' Kelmscott Press published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium. Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine art. The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical styles. This historicism was, however, important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced Art Nouveau and is indirectly responsible for developments in early twentieth century graphic design in general.[6]The term graphic design was first coined by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century[7]The signage in the London Underground is a classic[citation needed] of the modern era and used a font designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.Jan Tschichold codified the principles of modern typography in his 1928 book, New Typography. He later repudiated the philosophy he espoused in this book as being fascistic, but it remained very influential.[citation needed] Tschichold, Bauhaus typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and El Lissitzky are the fathers of graphic design[citation needed] as we know it today. They pioneered production techniques and stylistic devices used throughout the twentieth century. The following years saw graphic design in the modern style gain widespread acceptance and application.[8] A booming post-World War II American economy established a greater need for graphic design, mainly advertising and packaging. The emigration of the German Bauhaus school of design to Chicago in 1937 brought a "mass-produced" minimalism to America; sparking a wild fire of "modern" architecture and design. Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1960s.A graphic designer may use sketches to explore multiple or complex ideas quickly[12] without the potential distractions of technical difficulties from software malfunctions or learning the software.[citation needed] Hand rendered comps are often used to get approval of an idea execution before investing time to produce finished visuals on a computer or in paste-up. The same thumbnail sketches or rough drafts on paper may be used to rapidly refine and produce the idea on the computer in a hybrid process. This hybrid process is especially useful in logo design[13] where a software learning curve may detract from a creative thought process. The traditional-design/computer-production hybrid process may be used for freeing ones creativity in page layout or image development as well.[citation needed] Traditional graphic designers may employ computer-savvy production artists to produce their ideas from sketches, without needing to learn the computer skills themselves. However, this practice is less utilized since the advent of desktop publishing and its integration with most graphic design courses.Types of graphic designA graphic design project may involve the presentation of existing text and imagery, such as with a newspaper story which begins with the journalists and photojournalists. It then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required. In a magazine article or advertisement, often the graphic designer or art director will commission photographers or illustrators to create original pieces just to be incorporated into the design layout. Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.Page layout Further information: Page layoutPage layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalog layouts, proper page design has long been a consideration in printed material. With print media, elements usually consist of type (text), images (pictures), and occasionally place-holder graphics for elements that are not printed with ink such as die/laser cutting, foil stamping or blind embossing.Web design Further information: web designgraphic designers are often involved in web design. Combining visual communication skills with the interactive communication skills of user interaction and online branding, graphic designers often work with web developers to create both the look and feel of a web site and enhance the online experience of web site visitors.In the job field, many companies look for someone who can do both graphic design and the web application development involved in web design, including programming. There is a great deal of debate in the professional design community about whether this trend is positive, or if graphic designers are being over-tasked with unrelated skills and disciplines. A collaborative web-design team may split the tasks between graphic designers and software engineers.graphic design A clip from "As Good As It Gets"Posted Jun-26-08 14:06:54 PDT A clip from "As Good As It Gets" Classic Jack Nicholson! The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may utilize typography, visual arts and page layout techniques in varying degrees to produce the final result of the project. graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.Common uses of graphic design include magazines, advertisements, product packaging and web design. For example, a product package might include a logo or other artwork, organized text and pure design elements such as shapes and color which unify the piece. Composition is one of the most important features of graphic design especially when utilizing pre-existing materials or using diverse elements.History of graphic designgraphic design spans the history of humankind from the caves of Lascaux to the dazzling neons of Ginza. In both this lengthy history and in the relatively recent explosion of visual communication in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they share many of the same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience."[2]EarlyThe paintings in the caves of Lascaux around 14,000 BC and the birth of written language in the third or fourth millennium BC are both significant milestones in the history of graphic design and other fields which hold roots to graphic design.The Book of Kells is an early example of graphic design. It is a lavishly decorated hand-written copy of the Gospels of the Christian Bible created by Celtic monks around 800AD.The Invention of Printing Main article: History of printingDuring the Tang dynasty (618–906) bettween the 4th and 7th century A.D. wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts. A Buddhist scripture printed in 868 is the earliest known printed book. Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing making books widely available during the Song dyanasty (960–1279).[3] Sometime around 1450, Johann Gutenberg's printing press made books widely available in Europe. The book design of Aldus Manutius developed the book structure which would become the foundation of western publication design. This era of graphic design is called Humanist or Old Style. [4]The Start of Industrial DesignIn late 19th century Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, the movement began to separate graphic design from fine art. Piet Mondrian is known as the father of graphic design. He was a fine artist, but his use of grids inspired the modern grid system used today in advertising, print and web layout. [5]From 1892 to 1896 William Morris' Kelmscott Press published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium. Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine art. The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical styles. This historicism was, however, important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced Art Nouveau and is indirectly responsible for developments in early twentieth century graphic design in general.[6]Twentieth Century DesignA Boeing 747 Air Force One aircraft. The cyan blue pattern, the US flag, presidential seal and the lettering were all designed at different times and combined in this one final design. graphic design is applied in virtually every organization or society. There are virtually no limits to the size and applications of graphic design.A Boeing 747 Air Force One aircraft. The cyan blue pattern, the US flag, presidential seal and the lettering were all designed at different times and combined in this one final design. graphic design is applied in virtually every organization or society. There are virtually no limits to the size and applications of graphic design.The term graphic design was first coined by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century[7]The signage in the London Underground is a classic[citation needed] of the modern era and used a font designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.Jan Tschichold codified the principles of modern typography in his 1928 book, New Typography. He later repudiated the philosophy he espoused in this book as being fascistic, but it remained very influential.[citation needed] Tschichold, Bauhaus typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and El Lissitzky are the fathers of graphic design[citation needed] as we know it today. They pioneered production techniques and stylistic devices used throughout the twentieth century. The following years saw graphic design in the modern style gain widespread acceptance and application.[8] A booming post-World War II American economy established a greater need for graphic design, mainly advertising and packaging. The emigration of the German Bauhaus school of design to Chicago in 1937 brought a "mass-produced" minimalism to America; sparking a wild fire of "modern" architecture and design. Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1960s.A graphic designer may use sketches to explore multiple or complex ideas quickly[12] without the potential distractions of technical difficulties from software malfunctions or learning the software.[citation needed] Hand rendered comps are often used to get approval of an idea execution before investing time to produce finished visuals on a computer or in paste-up. The same thumbnail sketches or rough drafts on paper may be used to rapidly refine and produce the idea on the computer in a hybrid process. This hybrid process is especially useful in logo design[13] where a software learning curve may detract from a creative thought process. The traditional-design/computer-production hybrid process may be used for freeing ones creativity in page layout or image development as well.[citation needed] Traditional graphic designers may employ computer-savvy production artists to produce their ideas from sketches, without needing to learn the computer skills themselves. However, this practice is less utilized since the advent of desktop publishing and its integration with most graphic design courses.Types of graphic designA graphic design project may involve the presentation of existing text and imagery, such as with a newspaper story which begins with the journalists and photojournalists. It then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required. In a magazine article or advertisement, often the graphic designer or art director will commission photographers or illustrators to create original pieces just to be incorporated into the design layout. Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.Page layout Further information: Page layoutPage layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalog layouts, proper page design has long been a consideration in printed material. With print media, elements usually consist of type (text), images (pictures), and occasionally place-holder graphics for elements that are not printed with ink such as die/laser cutting, foil stamping or blind embossing.Web design Further information: web designgraphic designers are often involved in web design. Combining visual communication skills with the interactive communication skills of user interaction and online branding, graphic designers often work with web developers to create both the look and feel of a web site and enhance the online experience of web site visitors.In the job field, many companies look for someone who can do both graphic design and the web application development involved in web design, including programming. There is a great deal of debate in the professional design community about whether this trend is positive, or if graphic designers are being over-tasked with unrelated skills and disciplines. A collaborative web-design team may split the tasks between graphic designers and software engineers.graphic design A Patriot Speaks Out!Posted Jun-26-08 13:00:10 PDT A patriot speaks out! The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may utilize typography, visual arts and page layout techniques in varying degrees to produce the final result of the project. graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.Common uses of graphic design include magazines, advertisements, product packaging and web design. For example, a product package might include a logo or other artwork, organized text and pure design elements such as shapes and color which unify the piece. Composition is one of the most important features of graphic design especially when utilizing pre-existing materials or using diverse elements.History of graphic designgraphic design spans the history of humankind from the caves of Lascaux to the dazzling neons of Ginza. In both this lengthy history and in the relatively recent explosion of visual communication in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they share many of the same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience."[2]EarlyThe paintings in the caves of Lascaux around 14,000 BC and the birth of written language in the third or fourth millennium BC are both significant milestones in the history of graphic design and other fields which hold roots to graphic design.The Book of Kells is an early example of graphic design. It is a lavishly decorated hand-written copy of the Gospels of the Christian Bible created by Celtic monks around 800AD.The Invention of Printing Main article: History of printingDuring the Tang dynasty (618–906) bettween the 4th and 7th century A.D. wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts. A Buddhist scripture printed in 868 is the earliest known printed book. Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing making books widely available during the Song dyanasty (960–1279).[3] Sometime around 1450, Johann Gutenberg's printing press made books widely available in Europe. The book design of Aldus Manutius developed the book structure which would become the foundation of western publication design. This era of graphic design is called Humanist or Old Style. [4]The Start of Industrial DesignIn late 19th century Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, the movement began to separate graphic design from fine art. Piet Mondrian is known as the father of graphic design. He was a fine artist, but his use of grids inspired the modern grid system used today in advertising, print and web layout. [5]From 1892 to 1896 William Morris' Kelmscott Press published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium. Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine art. The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical styles. This historicism was, however, important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced Art Nouveau and is indirectly responsible for developments in early twentieth century graphic design in general.[6]Twentieth Century DesignA Boeing 747 Air Force One aircraft. The cyan blue pattern, the US flag, presidential seal and the lettering were all designed at different times and combined in this one final design. graphic design is applied in virtually every organization or society. There are virtually no limits to the size and applications of graphic design.A Boeing 747 Air Force One aircraft. The cyan blue pattern, the US flag, presidential seal and the lettering were all designed at different times and combined in this one final design. graphic design is applied in virtually every organization or society. There are virtually no limits to the size and applications of graphic design.The term graphic design was first coined by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century[7]The signage in the London Underground is a classic[citation needed] of the modern era and used a font designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.Jan Tschichold codified the principles of modern typography in his 1928 book, New Typography. He later repudiated the philosophy he espoused in this book as being fascistic, but it remained very influential.[citation needed] Tschichold, Bauhaus typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and El Lissitzky are the fathers of graphic design[citation needed] as we know it today. They pioneered production techniques and stylistic devices used throughout the twentieth century. The following years saw graphic design in the modern style gain widespread acceptance and application.[8] A booming post-World War II American economy established a greater need for graphic design, mainly advertising and packaging. The emigration of the German Bauhaus school of design to Chicago in 1937 brought a "mass-produced" minimalism to America; sparking a wild fire of "modern" architecture and design. Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1960s.A graphic designer may use sketches to explore multiple or complex ideas quickly[12] without the potential distractions of technical difficulties from software malfunctions or learning the software.[citation needed] Hand rendered comps are often used to get approval of an idea execution before investing time to produce finished visuals on a computer or in paste-up. The same thumbnail sketches or rough drafts on paper may be used to rapidly refine and produce the idea on the computer in a hybrid process. This hybrid process is especially useful in logo design[13] where a software learning curve may detract from a creative thought process. The traditional-design/computer-production hybrid process may be used for freeing ones creativity in page layout or image development as well.[citation needed] Traditional graphic designers may employ computer-savvy production artists to produce their ideas from sketches, without needing to learn the computer skills themselves. However, this practice is less utilized since the advent of desktop publishing and its integration with most graphic design courses.Types of graphic designA graphic design project may involve the presentation of existing text and imagery, such as with a newspaper story which begins with the journalists and photojournalists. It then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required. In a magazine article or advertisement, often the graphic designer or art director will commission photographers or illustrators to create original pieces just to be incorporated into the design layout. Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.Page layout Further information: Page layoutPage layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalog layouts, proper page design has long been a consideration in printed material. With print media, elements usually consist of type (text), images (pictures), and occasionally place-holder graphics for elements that are not printed with ink such as die/laser cutting, foil stamping or blind embossing.Web design Further information: web designgraphic designers are often involved in web design. Combining visual communication skills with the interactive communication skills of user interaction and online branding, graphic designers often work with web developers to create both the look and feel of a web site and enhance the online experience of web site visitors.In the job field, many companies look for someone who can do both graphic design and the web application development involved in web design, including programming. There is a great deal of debate in the professional design community about whether this trend is positive, or if graphic designers are being over-tasked with unrelated skills and disciplines. A collaborative web-design team may split the tasks between graphic designers and software engineers.graphic design |
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