What does graphic designers do?

To be honest, many people out there didn't know about what graphic designers do, what is graphic design?

So, let's start to the basic. What is graphic design? In simple terms, graphic design is the skill and art of combining text and pictures in advertisement, magazine or book, it's also a visual communication and problem-solving through the use of text, colours and images (Wikipedia, 2015).

Well, we had roughly understand about what is graphic design. So, what are the duties of graphic designers ? Graphic designers are following the information of the brief, and create distinctive of great advertising, photography, illustrations, typography and more. Besides, they may major in design for marketing communications, digital media, corporate identity, publishing or packaging (Linton, 2016). They have many job scopes to exert their skills. They also need a good computer skills which have to use graphic design software to continue their works. In that case, how is the internet, mobile web and mobile apps affect graphic designers' works?

References

Chron (2015) ' What Are the Duties of Graphic Designers?' [Online] Available at : http://work.chron.com/duties-graphic-designers-12873.html ( Accessed : 5 January 2016)

Wikipedia (2015) ' Graphic design' [Online] Available at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design (Accessed : 5 January 2016)