Í stuttu máli þá snýst grafísk hönnun um að leysa sjónræn vandamál og koma skoðun eða skilaboðum á framfæri á sem skilmerkilegastan hátt.
Hérna fyrir neðan eru nokkrir punktar á ensku. Bæði sögulegir og heimspekilegir.1. “Since prehistoric times, people have searched for ways to give visual form to ideas and concepts, to store knowledge in graphic form, and to bring order and clarity to information. Over the course of history, these needs have been filled by various people including scribes, printers, and artists. It was not until 1922, when the outstanding book designer William Addison Dwiggins coined the term ‘graphic design’ to describe his activities as an individual who brought structural order and visual form to printed communications, that an emerging profession received an appropriate name.”
MEGGS. Philip, B.A -
History of Graphic Design2. “Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.”
Jessica Helfand -
AIGA What is graphic design?3. “The practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website.”
Dictionary.com4. “The process and art of combining text and graphics and communicating an effective message in the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication. Today's graphic designers often use desktop publishing software and techniques to achieve their goals.”
About.com5. Graphic design is the most universal of all the arts. It is all around us, explaining, decorating, identifying; imposing meaning on the world… Without graphic design's process and ingredients - structure and organisation, word and image, differentiation - we would have to receive all our information by the spoken word. We would enter another Dark Ages, a thousand years of ignorance, prejudice, superstition and very short lifespans.
Quentin Newark -
What Is Graphic Design?
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