Top Most Important Business Graphic Design Types

Graphic design comes in all different shapes and forms. The usual thing that comes to people’s minds when they think of graphics is a nicely done image. This is, however, a very limited view of what graphic designers do every day.

Depending on what your business is, you might find yourself in need of using a specific type of graphic design to do what you want. This blog will cover some of the most important types of graphic design that businesses need.

UI/UX Design

The most in-demand type of graphic design in the digital age. Thanks to the rising popularity of digital content, more and more online businesses are finding themselves in need of designing user-friendly interfaces.

Graphic designers specializing in this niche make it their job to deliver website interfaces, images, and visual content that speaks to an audience and is easy to use. Businesses afraid their website ranking is suffering should look first to see if they have well-designed user interfaces and user experiences.

Advertisement Design

This specific niche focuses on developing creative ads powered by the right visuals. Some of the things those graphic designers work on are billboards, logos, banners, and many more types of creative graphics.

Design and marketing intersect very strongly. In fact, it can be said that creative graphic design expands your marketing efforts, and it is because of the ability to absorb graphic content much more quickly than the written word.

Brand Design

A great brand is all about having a captivating design. Graphic designers specializing in this area make it their job to identify a brand, understand its goals, work out a way to have it appear visually appealing, and align it with the brand experience.

Businesses without a strong brand look are ignored, and this alone can destroy a business because first impressions dominate the modern world.

Packaging Design

Very overlooked but still very important. Having a good packing design can sell your product right away. Graphic designers in this area focus on associating your brand with the package itself.

Moreover, the package design requires specialized knowledge of printing to make effective decisions about how it should look. Some common examples of packages that need good design are stickers and wrapping paper.

Publication Design

Despite falling out of favor because of the rise of digital books and weaker salaries, publication design is still an important area of ​​focus for many designers. These designs are the ones that appear on books, printed paper, catalogs, and magazines.

As with the other design types mentioned here, a good visual eye for detail is important to work out something that can be sold far and wide. Since printed media requires people to look through the book, it becomes essential to design attractive margins and grids to captivate and keep them invested in the material they’re reading.

Motion Graphic Design

Another key area of ​​the design spectrum. It’s also a strong component of visual content and the driver behind website traffic.

Motion design is basically

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These Gadgets Banish Mosquitos

Mosquitos on skin.
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Summer is great, but there’s something tiny that can be a big nuisance this time of year: Mosquitos. Lathering on the bug spray is not your only defense against these bloodsuckers. A clever gadget is all you need.

The market for mosquito repellants and killers is vast. Not only are they extremely annoying—both with the buzzing sound and itchy welts–but they can also carry disease. It’s in your best interest to have some sort of line of defense.

A lot of people are only familiar with the classics—bug sprays with DEET, citronella candles, and Tiki torches. However, we can do better than that thanks to a nifty line of mosquito repellant devices from Thermacell.

Notes: This is not a sponsored article. We have been using Thermacell products for several years and just like them a lot. At the time of writing in June 2022, Thermacell is the only company that sells mosquito repellant devices like this.

What Is a Thermacell?

Thermacell is the name of a company that produces mosquito-repellant devices. The company offers a range of devices that all essentially serve the same purpose. The idea is you turn on the device and it creates an invisible zone of protection around you.

There are a number of different devices from Thermacell for different use-cases. The company offers rechargeable battery-powered models, fuel-powered models, and a wired-in whole backyard system. All of these different models work essentially the same way.

How Does It Work?

You might be thinking that sounds too good to be true, so let’s talk about how it works. Thermacells use either a saturated mat or liquid-filled cartridge that contains allethrin, a component found in plants that are toxic to mosquitoes and other insects.

Whether powered by fuel or a battery, the liquid is heated up and dispersed into the air. It’s colorless, odorless, and otherwise undetectable by humans. The zone of protection depends on the Thermacell model, but it’s usually around 15 to 20 feet.

It’s worth noting that it takes some time for the heating element to get going. You should expect to wait around 15 minutes before the full zone of protection is established.

Is Thermacell Safe to Use?

Many bug repellants—including the notorious DEET—come with safety concerns for humans and other animals. If used correctly, they’re fine, but what about Thermacell devices?

Thermacell says its repellant has been “independently tested” and it has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, there are still some things to keep in mind. The liquid in the mats and cartridges should not be consumed by humans or animals. You should also avoid breathing in the vapors directly from the devices.

The most important thing to understand is the ingredients in Thermacell devices are not technically “repellants,” despite the marketing and packaging using the term repeatedly. Allethrin works by scrambling nerve signals in insects, causing them to fall and eventually die.

Warnings: Yes, the allethrin kills all kinds of insects in the “zone of

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WLU Invites Nonprofits to Partner with Graphic Design Students

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va., June 13, 2022 – West Liberty University’s Graphic Design seniors invite nonprofits to partner with them now to meet marketing and design needs.

“Our seniors are looking for local nonprofits that may need assistance on marketing and graphic design tasks. It might be a website, or flyer, logo or other brand related tools. It is so beneficial for our students to gain real world experience and work with actual clients. We are grateful for those who ask for our help and it’s easy to do online,” said Sarah Davis, associate professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Media and Visual Arts.

The deadline to complete the online application for design service is July 15, 2022 for projects that begin in August, 2022.

WLU graphic design students are ready to donate their design skills to nonprofit organizations in need. From left, top row, seniors Abigail Beckelhimer, Follansbee, W.Va., C’ierra Buchanan, Mineral Wells, W.Va., and Robert Trayon, Shadyside, Ohio; bottom row, Megan Cunninghan, New Martinsville, W.Va., Lacey Deem, Carrollton, Ohio, and Professor Sarah Davis, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Davis serves as an advisor for the students who participate in the Visual Communication Design studio course for Fall 2022, which is the class that simulates professional design studio experience and helps students get ready for their professional careers.

Possible projects may include branding systems, logo design and application, social media graphics, information design, brochures, book covers, high-end presentations, app design, animation, video, signage, and websites.

As a result of directly working with clients and team members, students provide strategically based, cost-effective, and visually compelling solutions.

Potential roles for students to work in include a combination of the following but not exclusively: team leader, account executive, art director, creative director, production manager, conceptual designer, graphic designer, researcher, design strategist, production artist, photographer, illustrator, typographer, or logo designer.

Nonprofits interested in becoming eligible to participate in the design service opportunity, should simply complete the online form linked above and wait to be notified when the project is selected for student work.

Successful recent partnerships include working with The Children’s Home of Wheeling, The Strand Theater of Moundsville, and Purpose Inc., located in Wheeling.

For more information or questions, please contact Davis at sarah.davis@westliberty.edu or call 412.215.3834.

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Gadgeteer Adds 23 New Musical Gadgets In Update

A new update for physics-based puzzle game Gadgeteer brings 23 musical gadgets to play with as well as a new environment to build in.

The Musical Gadget Update released recently for Gadgeteer on Quest and PC VR. It adds a bunch of new music-inspired tools for players to implement in their Rube Goldberg machines, such as a metronome, xylophone, drum parts, cymbals, gongs, cowbells and a rubber chicken.

As you can see in the trailer embedded above, players can use existing well-known Gadgeteer staples, such as the marble ball, to interact with the new musical elements to produce tones in sequences and create songs.

The update also adds in a new sandbox environment, ‘Study’, which is “purposely designed to offer a building canvas that’s different from the ‘Apartment’ environment” and provides a better canvas for building music-focused machines.

Metanaut CEO and Creative Director Peter Kao shared bits about future updates to come in a prepared statement, “Our players have been asking for gadgets that allow them to build perpetually running machines. They’ve also asked for powerful electrical gadgets. These are great suggestions and we have them on the top of our list of gadgets to prototype.”

Metanaut has consistently updated Gadgeteer through early access and post launch, adding in some key features such as online level sharing, while also expanding out with Quest and PSVR releases in 2019 and 2021 respectively.

The update is available now for Gadgeteer on PC VR and Quest platforms, with PSVR to come in the future.

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Best smart tech gadgets to buy under $500 » Gadget Flow

From Alexa-compatible glasses to smart video doorbells, these gadgets bring you seriously smart tech for under a grand. Check them out below.

Think you can’t upgrade your tech products without hitting the $1,000 mark? Well, these smart tech gadgets under $500 prove you can snag some pretty great products for less than you’d expect. Let’s have a look.

Related: Ultimate smart home gadgets guide June 2022 edition—you can never have enough!

If you’re in the market for a smartwatch but are confounded by the $500+ price tags, check out the DOOGEE CR1Pro. It has nearly all the features you’d expect from a more expensive brand and costs just $54.99.

Or maybe you’d love to own a robot vacuum. The eufy RoboVac G20 Hybrid gives you precision vacuuming and mopping, plus Alexa control, for just $299.99.

Treat yourself to great tech and still have money for groceries with the gadgets on this list.

1. The eufy RoboVac G20 Hybrid robot vacuum and mop leaves your floors spotless for just $299 and has Amazon Alexa voice control.

eufy RoboVac G20 Hybrid robot
eufy RoboVac G20 Hybrid cleaning a child’s bedroom

You can get an Alexa-controlled robot vacuum for under half a grand, and its name is the eufy RoboVac G20 Hybrid robot vacuum and mop. It never misses a spot with its Smart Dynamic Navigation.

Get it for $299.99 on the official website.

2. The Sony WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones have Alexa and Google Assistant built-in and adjust the audio based on your environment.

Sony WH-1000XM5 videos

The Sony WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones are some of the best headphones you can buy thanks to their adaptive sound, which adjusts to your surroundings. Even better, Alexa and Google Assistant are built-in for convenient track switching.

Get them for $399.99 on the official website.

3. The Amazon eero 6+ adds Wi-Fi 6 to your home and has its own smart hub, letting it work with Thread and Zigbee devices.

Amazon eero 6 plus
Amazon eero 6+ on a side table

Looking for enough bandwidth to support your family’s work, streaming, and video calls? Go for the Amazon eero 6+ Wi-Fi 6 router. It gives you gigabit speeds for less and comes with its own smart home hub, making it one of the best smart home gadgets under $500.

Get it for $139 on Amazon.

4. The Vue Lite 2 eyewear series includes pretty useful smart tech gadgets. Use them to check your calendar, send a message, and more.

best smart tech gadgets to buy for under $500
Vue Lite 2 on a person outdoors

If you’re always on the go, the Vue Lite 2 eyewear series offers the EDC tech for you. For just $199, this smart eyewear collection connects to Alexa and Siri, letting you ask questions and message others without reaching for your phone.

Get a pair for $199 on the official website.

5. The DOOGEE CR1Pro smartwatch puts GPS tracking, sports modes, health sensors, and more right on your wrist.

DOOGEE CR1Pro
DOOGEE CR1Pro GPS smartwatch on a wrist

Get all the features you’d expect from a premium smartwatch with the

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