Information Design is based on the concept that communication works best when the whole environment is taken into consideration. Whether a particular piece exists on paper, on the web, or on the intranet each medium has its own rules. A particular piece will be used in a particular way, buy a particular audience, with particular needs.   © 2010 WordStyle, Inc. Graphic design. n. The practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website Web Site Design Compelling web site design is important. It should fit your product or service, establish credibility, and help visitors enjoy surfing your site. It should never get in the way of users finding the information they are looking for – instead, it should lead them to it. We created this site for our local chapter of the Society for Technical Communication This is a personal website for author F. Eugene Barber. The purpose of the site is to advertise his books and highlight his interest in word and phrase origins. The challenge for Luke's Christian T-shirts was to design a clean, easy-to-navigate background that would let the client insert text and graphics on several web pages while maintaining a consistent "look" throughout the site. This site was designed for a group of local boaters who are willing to "share" their love of water sports with visitors to Las Vegas. STC-Nevada ReadersKorner Luke’s Christian T-Shirts Boating on Lake Mead Business Graphics Sales Brochure Tri-fold Brochure Catalog Page Business Card The design of the page should make it easy for the user to locate information and to understand it, while complementary graphics illustrate the point - studies show that information supported by graphics is remembered much longer and more accurately than information supplied by text alone. Click on an image for a larger view. Click on an image for a larger view. Photo Manipulation Certificates A way to celebrate and express your pride in accomplishments. Class Certificate Confirmation Certificate Business Personal This is from a Calendar for a man's 75th birthday. His wife sent this picture of him when he served in Korea. We removed the background and put him in front of an American Flag and the Korean War Memorial. A photograph can be used as a "fill" for text.  This is the cover graphic used for a Family calendar given as a Christmas present. The Year was filled with a family photo taken a few years earlier. Make sure you resize a photo or other bitmap image before adding it to a report rather than resizing within a document. This will greatly reduce the file size of the final document. Here we took an old black and white photo, removed the background, and gave it a sepia tint. Filters can be used to "stylize" a photograph Click on an image for a larger view. Uniquely themed t-shirts rendered in high-quality permanent ink. Visit our t-shirt gallery here.