Filed Under: Tools and Resources, Career Guide, graphic design, design educators, students. Illustration: Able Parris. Graphic design, also known as communication design, is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. The form of the communication can be physical or virtual, and may include images, words, or graphic forms.
Click the Schedule button on the Energy Saver window to set up a time for the computer to automatically wake up or go to sleep. Tick the box next to Start up or wake and select the time in the field at the right of the window to have the computer turn on at a certain time each day. Tick the box next to the drop-down menu below the Start up option and select either Shut Down or Sleep to set an automatic sleep time.
If you have a laptop, this enables your computer to save on battery consumption; desktop users can save time by not having to reboot the computer. You can automatically set your computer to enter sleep mode after a specific period of time, ranging from one minute to five hours, from the Windows 8 Control Panel.