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 don't realize it.Graphic design can serve many functions. Just a few of the uses of graphic design include: Signage Corporate identity/branding Packaging (from water bottles to appliances) Printed materials (books, flyers, magazines, newspapers) Online art (banners, blogs, websites) Album covers Film and television titles and graphics T-shirt and clothing designs Greeting cardsCorel Draw is a vector drawing tool. As such, it mainly used to create logos, signs and to vectorize images, or create new fonts (just in case you wondered how someone could build a brand new font from scratch, this is the type the program you would use, and in Corel Draw is very easy)yes, you can create your designs using Corel Draw (and slice and create the HTML, too, although I never suggest to use these tools in any program, and Corel Draw is not an exception).It is a fantastic software but, as any other software, you need to know the interface. For some things, Corel Draw is better than Adobe Illustrator or Freehand (previously from Macromedia, now Adobe's since Macromedia has been bought by them). For other things, is harder to get the same result as in Illustrator.Most of the people will tell you that Adobe's are better. Well, I use Adobe because I love Photoshop (I haven't seen any other software so powerful for photographs) and it's got a wider range of users. But, for certain tasks, I use CorelDraw, and I always say to myself "isn't this a great piece of software". It has nothing to envy to others. But it is a case of personal preference.