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What Is Graphic Design
- 1. W H ATI S G R A P H I C D E S I G N ?
- 2. Is Graphic Design: A History Visual Art Commercial Art Advertising Visual Communication A Profession A Set of Computer Skills ?
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- 4. Josef Müller-Brockmann Adolphe MuronCassandre, 1935 Paul Rand Emigre Magazine, 1985 Milton Glaser, 1973
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- 8. I Saw theFigure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth, 1928
- 9. Composition with Red,Yellow,and Blue, Piet Mondrian, 1921
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- 12. Lascaux caves Japanese Ad, 1806 Book of Kells Robert Crumb Found Magazine Harold, date unknown
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- 26. Design is themethod of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. —Paul Rand
- 27. ... graphic designis a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye. —Jessica Helfand
- 28. A graphic designeris a communicator: someone who takes ideas and gives them visual form so that others can understand them. Graphic designers perform this service on behalf of a company or other organization to help that entity get its message out to its audience and, in so doing, evoke a particular response. —from Timothy Samara’s Design Elements (our textbook)
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- 54. Graphic Design isa profession ... serving a client defined by work with mastery of dedicated software tools equipped to solve any “visual design problem” and an established career path
- 59. ... and aset of skills. effective use of type and image to communicate an idea engagement in the evolving signs and symbols of our environment ability to critique and negotiate visual ideas in a team and with a client ability to conceive visual ideas; knowing what is possible and how to get there
- 60. Graphic Design isthe art of persuasion ... meant to create desire for products, or persuade viewer to think in a certain way establishing the public face of a company through branding ultimately is ephemeral
- 65. ... and anall-encompassing study of human symbols & signs. man makes marks to communicate; the evolution of those marks reveal a history of the times all marks are meant to communicate something for a reason, there is always a “client” we have own own symbolism; even advertising reveals the desires and needs of our society a successful graphic designer is tapped into the visual code of the times
- 67. Graphic Design ismeant to inform ... serving a function uniquely visual by conveying complex ideas quickly creating better understanding across language barriers, to direct giving security
- 70. ... and tobeautify. creates civic pride elevates aesthetic pleasure and creative thinking humanizes
- 71. Curiosity about lifein all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. —Leo Burnett
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- 73. What is thegoal of an education in graphic design?
- 74. Can graphic designbe taught?
- 75. Can graphic designbe learned?
- 76. When does onebecome a graphic designer?