2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is most important in creating a graphic design for an advertisement to persuade teens to make a purchase?
2. In order persuade teens to make a purchase, a graphic designer must know what relevant to the design.
3. A. While working on my independent component with Paul, he showed an example of a room and pointing out irrelevant things that were in a graphic design and he scaled them "eye sores." He covered each of  with strips of paper and basically cropped them out and it made such an improvement on the design.
    B. In the article What Designers Need to Know by Sharon Helmer, she said "Designers think about visual forms and how they are put together to convey meaning." So everything that a designer adds into a design has a meaning and is relevant to the advertisement.
    C. In the article 13 Signs You're a Bad Graphic Designer by Jacob Cass, he had examples of using irrelevant thing such as drop shadows, helvetica in everything you write, boxes behind text and other unnecessary things. He says that adding only things that are relevant to a design will make it much stronger and more aesthetically appealing. 
4. "15 Signs You’re A Bad Graphic Designer." JUST Creative. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. <http://justcreative.com/2007/12/06/bad-graphic-design/>.

"What Designers Need to Know." AIGA. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. <http://www.aiga.org/guide-designersneedknow/>.

Independent component meeting with Paul 

5. Next, I'm planning on researching more on understanding what is relevant and what isn't in a design and trying to apply it to my own design.