Career Fair: Graphic Design and Commerical Art
Presented by Paul Young
electric.pictures.com@gmail.com
Cunningham Children's Home
1301 N Cunningham Ave, Urbana, IL 61802
Friday, May 9, 2025 • 9am–12pm
About the Presenter
Paul Young is a graphic designer and a retired professor who has taught professionally for over 20 years. Currently, he produces his own instructional cooking videos for his Youtube channel to promote his cooking classes. Paul believes technology is just a tool that serves a need and should not be feared nor worshipped.
About Graphic Design
Before the term graphic design was invented, graphic designers were called commercial artists. Commercial artists are just like fine artists (painters, sculptors, photographers). Both types of artists create works of beauty and are highly respected by society. But commercial artists must connect with a diverse audience because our work is being used to market products, brands, services and events.
Today, graphic designers almost always create their work on computers. Digital technology is fast, efficient and can easily be copied or published. Traditionally, our work has been reproduced in print. However, more and more designers are working in digital media (web, apps, ebooks, displays, film, etc).
This page contains interesting links for you to explore. You may wish to bookmark this page on your home computer.
- What is graphic design?
- Examples of professional graphic design work
- Examples of student graphic design work
Where do graphic designers work?
- Surface 51 (a local ad agency/marketing firm)
- Pixo (a local web design firm)
- Dixon Graphics (a local printing company)
- Five Foot Productions (a local video production studio)
- Livids Media (a local digital media studio)
Graphic Design Job Titles
(from lowest to highest salary)
- Production Artist
- Layout Artist
- Illustrator
- Graphic Designer
- Web Designer
- Web Developer
- UI Designer
- UX Designer
- Motion Designer
- Packaging Designer
- Logo Designer
- Brand Designer
- Senior Designer
- Design Director
- Design Consultant
- Art Director
- Creative Director
Graphic Design Projects
| PRINT (PAPER) | DIGITAL MEDIA (SCREENS) |
| branding | branding |
| typography | typography |
| print ads | internet ads |
| brochures | websites |
| books | ebooks |
| newsletters | email newsletters |
| menus | menu boards |
| holiday cards | e-invites |
| posters | motion graphics/animation |
| packaging | apps |
Contact
Paul Young
Professor (retired)
Graphic Design Program
Parkland College
electric.pictures.com@gmail.com