What is graphic design to you?
I always get asked this question. And even though I have been studying it for 6 years I still struggle to explain it one sentence. I usually refer to the way Paul Rand described it: Graphic design is thinking made visual.
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when i hear the word i think…indesign…photoshop…and most of all…good customers!
I was about to refer you to Paul Rand. Few thoughts: 1) Most other definitions are simply rearrangements of Rand’s quote. 2) Why are we defining it?
Graphic Design is about making other designers feel like Idiots because it wasn’t their idea
I always say: “problem solving for visual communication”. Here’s a nice series of visual answers to the question.
studying it for 6 years?? really.. im a graphic design major and i really like it
An income that give me lots of untraditional freedom.
The synergy of words and image to convey a message to a (laregly) unknown audience. And the way I’ve made my living for twenty years.
A means of communicating visually.
Visual communication through a creative use of structure, typography, and graphic abstractions.
Also, I like to consider it a narrative of some sort, as if I am visually orchestrating a narrative through design.
I always tell people “I was to poor a speller to use words”
a visual message. A visual intention or thought.
graphic design is
masking
your ideas
Visual problem solving.
Or as I once read (can’t remember where): “Great design is timeless. Bad design is everywhere.”
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