Annotated Bibliography 

“CollegeGrad.” ​Jobs, Career, Salary and Education Information​, 

collegegrad.com/careers/graphic-designers. 

CollegeGrad’s article talks about life after college and jobs you can get as a graphic designer. 
It gives helpful advice and tells the qualities of a graphic designer. It basically tells you what 
you would need and how much you could make working as a graphic designer. This article is 
helpful because it talks about life after college and once you get a job what you can expect 
from it. 
 

“The Difference Between Visual Art and Graphic Design.” ​Speckyboy Design Magazine​, 9 

May 2019, speckyboy.com/the-difference-between-visual-art-and-graphic-design/. 

The Speckyboy article talks about the difference between art and design in more detail and 
gives perspective on how art is a born talent and design is an acquired skill. It helps provide 
me with a lot of detail on the difference between art and design. 
 

Leonardis, Lou. “25 Things I Love About Being a Graphic Designer by Lou Leonardis.” 

Trillion Creative​, 1 Nov. 2017, trillioncreative.com/25-things-love-graphic-designer/. 

Lou talks about 25 things that he likes about being a graphic most of them are very specific but 
it lets you know about the general day to day life and what could help you during your work. 
He talks about the simple things that would help you get your brain working and might make 
your day easier working as a graphic designer. 
 

Ovsyannykov, Igor. “How to Become a Graphic Designer Without Going to School. 

”​Creative Market​, 13 Aug. 2019, 

creativemarket.com/blog/how-to-become-a-graphic-designer-without-going-to-school. 

Igor writes about not only being a graphic designer as a profession but also weather the need 
for graphic design school is important. There are many ways without expensive schooling and 
spending 4 years to learn graphic design and he goes over what that would involve and how 
you could start. It is very easy to read the article and he pays attention to the fact that most 
people reading this are new graphic designers or people wanted to get into the subject, despite 
a lot of people would be arguing about how graphic design school is necessary. It’s important 
to my work because it talks about the difficulties of becoming a graphic designer and what 
would make you a better designer. 
 
 

Warren, Jeanette. “Graphic Designer vs. Graphic Artist.” ​CATMEDIA Internal 

Communication​, Jeanette Warren 

Https://Catmediatheagency.com/Wp-Content/Uploads/2018/07/Catmedia-Logo-Tem

p.png, 15 July 2019, catmediatheagency.com/graphic-artist-vs-graphic-designer/. 

In Jeanette’s blog, she discusses the difference between being a graphic artist and a graphic 
designer. She gives good perspectives on what it’s like to be either one and what qualities each 
position has. This helps me in my research because the line between graphic design and 
graphic art is not very clear and both are used very differently. 
 

Suzuno​, ​Melissa​. “What's It Like to Be a Graphic Designer?” ​AfterCollege​, 14 Oct. 

2013, blog.aftercollege.com/whats-like-graphic-designer/. 

Melissa talks about more of working as a graphic designer and about talking with clients 
especially about crazy requests that they would give or important details about time 
management. She gives details about working freelance which makes it seem more challenging 
but also makes the job interesting. It gives interesting advice about working in the field. This 
article gives me a perspective on some of the struggles that there are working as a graphic 
designer and input on how talking to clients is very important. 
 
“4 Easy Steps to Create a Beautiful Design Portfolio.” ​AIGA,​ 13AD, 
www.aiga.org/4-easy-steps-to-create-a-beautifuldesign-portfolio. 
 
This article talks about making a portfolio and gives you specifics about what you need to do to 
make a professional portfolio. Portfolios require a little bit of writing which is a quick synopsis 
about the piece and explains why you made the piece. This will help me make my final project 
if i choose to make a professional portfolio by telling me what exactly I need to do. 
 
 
 
“How to Become a Graphic Designer: The Ultimate Guide.” ​Howto Become a Graphic 
Designer The UltimateGuide Comments​, 27 Sept. 2019, 
icons8.com/articles/how-to-become-a-graphic-designer​/.\ 
 
This website gives me books I can research as well as how to become a graphic designer and 
what is graphic design. this will help me further my research by giving me books to about my 
topic. 
 
Vengoechea, Ximena. “How To Know Which Skills To Develop At Each Stage Of Your 
Career.” ​Fast Company,​ Fast Company, 29 Apr. 2016, 
www.fastcompany.com/3059358/how-to-know-which-skills-to-develop-at-each-stage-of-you
r-career. 
 
This article talks about the needed skills and the how being a likable person can put you very 
far into the graphic design community. This will help me find a real job as a graphic designer 
and it will give me more things to talk about in my final project. 
 
 
“What High School Courses Should I Take to Prepare for a Graphics Design Major?” 
Graphic Design Degree Hub​, 2018, 
www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/faq/what-high-school-courses-should-i-take-to-prepare
-for-a-graphics-design-major/. 
 
This article gives a list of classes you could take and tells you the importance of a degree in 
graphic design for getting a job in that field. It tells you how to start when your in high school 
and what you can do to continue into college. This helps me because it is related to my life 
right now and gives me information for moving forward into college 
 
 
My product will be a slideshow/portfolio talking about what I learned about working 
with clients but also about the differences between digital art and graphic design. I will 
probably put examples of works that I’ve done in both categories as examples and will go over 
the major differences.