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New ideas can come by way of experimenting with tools and methods, be they traditional or digital. Some designers explore ideas using pencil and paper to [[outside the box|avoid creating within the limits]] of whatever [[computer font]]s, [[clipart]], [[stock photo]]s, or rendering filters (e.g. [[Kai's Power Tools]]) are available on any particular configuration. Others use many different mark-making tools and resources from computers to sticks and mud as a means of inspiring creativity. One of the key features of graphic design is it involves selecting the appropriate image making tools out of it's ability to generate meaning rather than preference.<ref>Mike Rohde, [http://www.loosewireblog.com/pen_paper/index.html] [http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/000472.html] ''Wall Street Journal Mention in Jeremy Wagstaff's Loose Wire,'' Retrieved 3-19-2007</ref> Some graphic design ideas are created entirely in the mind, before approaching any external media.
A graphic designer may also use [[sketches]] to explore multiple or complex of ideas quickly<ref>Jacci Howard Bear, [http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/basic/a/thumbnails.htm?terms=squiggle desktoppub.about.com] Retrieved 3-19-2008</ref> without the potential distractions of technical difficulties from software malfunctions or software learning{{Fact|date=March 2007}}. Hand rendered [[Comprehensive layout|comps]] are often used to get approval of a graphic design idea before investing time to produce finished visuals on a computer or in paste-up if rejected. The same [[thumbnail]] sketches or rough drafts on paper may be used to rapidly refine and produce the idea on the computer in a hybrid process. This hybrid process is especially useful in [[logo]] design<ref>Gregory Thomas, ''How to Design Logos, Symbols and Icons: 24 Internationally Renowned Studios Reveal How They Develop Trademarks for Print and New Media,'' April 2003, pp:48 </ref> where a software [[learning curve]] may detract from a creative thought process. The traditional-design/computer-production hybrid process may be used for freeing ones creativity in [[page layout]] or [[image development (visual arts)|image development]] as well{{Fact|date=March 2007}}. Traditional graphic designers may employ computer-savvy [[production artist]]s to produce their ideas from sketches, without needing to learn the computer skills themselves.
==See also==
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