Graphic Design Designers and Stock Images

Graphic Design Designers and Stock Images
source: graphic-design-portfolios.com 


Many Graphic Design Designers relationship with stock images,sourced and found imagery are longstanding one,forged at Graphic Design School,Graphic Design College,or in the earliest years of their proffesional careers.
Graphic Design Designers ,Frederick Vanhorenbeke of Coast Design says," i started using stock images 1991 - My First year at Graphic Design School.

On some of the designs he has art directed or created himself,cevron employs stock images and souced imagery "as is" from royaly free CDs,seeing huge creative potential in recontextualizing and subverting the often staid,conservative, or familiar stock images he selects.
For example,for Coast's Design,Vanhorenbeke choose an image from a DigitalVision CD called CEOs ,and simply inverted it,cropping closely in on the image of a sharp-suited femle executive to create strong diagonals with in the frame.this leaves the viewer-and listener to explore the relationship between title and image in their own minds(the viewers task of recontruction) The lesson here about Graphic Design Designers and Stock Images is that even a familiar stock images,vector drawing,or icon can be raw material to any graphic design designer bold or imaginative enough to make a strong statement with widely available imagery to imbue it with new meaning,to make us look at the source material new.  Read More