Look around you. Graphic design is everywhere, from the wrappers on candy bars to the logo on your favorite coffee mug. In fact, you see hundreds of examples of graphic design every single day, and most of the time, you donI't realize it.

 Graphic design can serve many functions. Just a

few of the uses of graphic design include:

1Signage 2)Corporate identity/branding 3)Packaging (from water bottles to appliances) 4)Printed materials (books, flyers, magazines,

 newspapers) 5)Online art (banners, blogs, websites) 6)Album covers 7)Film and television titles and graphics 8)T-shirt and clothing designs 9)Greeting cards 10)Adobe Illustrator is graphic-driven software used primarily for creating vector graphics. Developed alongside with Adobe Photoshop as a

 companion product, Adobe illustrator is used for

creating logos, graphics, cartoons and fonts for the photo-realistic layouts of Adobe Photoshop. A good

 place to start is by designing a poster in Adobe

Illustrator. After you've made a poster, you can try

to make a brochure in Adobe lllustrator which

requires a more skilled understanding of height, width, sizing, and layout.If however your plan is to

 create graphics that could be transported to Photoshop. many more things are done with Illustrator.. This is very important software nowadays for any type of designing work..