TLE 2

• Visual graphic design


  Craft where professionals create visual content to communicate messages
• Visual graphic design


  • Applies visual hierarchy and page layout techniques
  • Uses typography and pictures to meet user's specific needs
  • Focuses the logic of displaying elements in interactive designs
  • Optimizes the user experience
• Graphic design dates back to cave paintings


  17,000 years ago
• The term "graphic design" originated


  1920s
• Activities covered by graphic design

  • Logo creation
• Develop designs for


  1. logo

  2. print media

  3. user interface and user experience

  4. product packaging

  5. booth and product window display
• CORE UNITS OF COMPETENCY

  • Coc 1: Develop designs for a logo
  • Coc 2: Develop designs for print media
  • Coc 3: Develop designs for user experience
  • Coc 4: Develop designs for user interface
  • Coc 5: Develop designs for product packaging
  • Coc 6: Design booth and product / window display
• COMPUTER with THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE ALREADY INSTALLED

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Gimp
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Inkscape
  • Adobe In Design
  • Adobe Dimension
  • Adobe XD / Sketch
  • Autodesk Sketchbook
  • Test Edit, microsoft Word
  • any Open Office
• ICTS


  Information and communication Technologies
• ICTS are defined, for the purposes of this primer, as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.</b>
• These technologies include


  • computers
  • the Internet
  • broadcasting technologies (radio and television)
  • telephony
• ICT (INFORMATION AND communiCATION TECHNOLOGIES)


  the integration of information processing, computing and communication technologies
• ICT is changing the way we learn, work and live in Society and ore often spoken of in a particular context, such as in education, health care, or libraries.
• The term "information technology" evolved

  1970s
• The basic concept of information technology can be traced to the World War II alliance of the military and the development of electronics, computers, and information theory.
• The military remained a major source of funding for research and development

  1940s
• Expansion of automation


  Replace manpower with machine power
• Generations of computers


  Each generation reflected a change in hardware to decrease size but increase capabilities to control computer operations
• Generations of computers


  • First generation used vacuum tubes
  • Second generation used transistors
  • Third generation used integrated circuits
  • Fourth generation used integrated circuits on a single computer chip
• First commercial computer


  UNIVAC I, developed by John Eckert and John W. Mauchly in 1951
• The UNIVAC I was used by the Census Bureau to predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed microcomputers


  1975
• Tandy Corporation's first Radio Shack microcomputer followed


  1976
• Apple microcomputer introduced


  1977
• IBM (International Business Machines) introduced the first personal computer in 1981


  The market for microcomputers increased dramatically
• Categories of computers today

  • Supercomputer
  • Mainframe
  • Minicomputer
  • Microcomputer
  • Personal computer
• Personal computer categories


  • Desktop
  • Laptop
  • Handheld