If you are starting a new project, or perhaps a new business, you will eventually have to look into graphics. Whether it’s for your project’s website, marketing or a physical presence, graphics are a key part of getting and keeping people’s attention. Read on to find out all the ways graphic design can help your project.
Graphics evoke professionalism
You can always tell a small business that doesn’t have a graphic designer on hand. The photos of celebrities stolen off the internet in the barbers, passed off as past customers, or the clipart slogans of food on a café’s front door. These cafés may serve the best sandwich that your grandma couldn’t even top, but the sad fact is that graphics evoke professionalism, and if a café has dodgy graphics, you’re going to wonder what else the café has that’s dodgy.
Not only that, but graphics catch positive attention. Have you ever had to read through an essay or report? Blocks of text will scan past your eyes with no register from the brain. To be blunt: it’s boring.
Graphics on the other hand are designed to grab your attention and keep it. They’re colourful and bold. They can be funny, serious, bright, or cold and everything in between. They convey a lot with no words at all, which brings us to the next point:
A picture tells a thousand words
You can convey a lot with a simple picture. Sure, you can look at a Renaissance painting and see the underlying messages in the subject matter and expressions, but even simpler than that are symbols. An arrow is now a mouse today, and when people see a mouse, they know you work in IT. A wrench means you’re a handyman. A gas company adopts a blue flame, a pet sanctuary a paw, etc.
But if things were that simple, we’d live in a really dull world where all the world’s plumbers had the same pipe symbol on the side of their van. A good graphic will convey not just the bare minimum, but what makes you and your project unique from others.
You can use graphics to convey who your target demographic is, like having a blue and white pipe for Scottish plumbers, or what your brand stands for, like make up for darker skin tones conveyed with African culture patterns and colours.
Everyone should be able to look at your graphics and instantly know who you are, what you’re doing and what you stand for.
A graphic identifies you
Once you’ve got your symbol that tells people who you are, you’ll need to make sure it is prominent everywhere you intend to go. Wrap your logo around vehicles, stitch it into uniforms, stick it to premise windows and walls, and soon everyone will know who you are.
This can evoke a lot of loyalty. Your customers will remember you from your logo and come back if they remember having a good experience with you, and your staff members will gain a sense of company loyalty when they see your logo.
