Thursday, April 28, 2011

Graphic Design Basics

By Mavic Poole


If there is an existing global form of art, that would be none other than graphic design. Graphic designs are omnipresent - in magazines, newspapers, in the streets, and even on our bodies. Graphic designs have even more proliferated in the advent of computer technologies.

Graphic designs have distinct and diverse functions. One is they distinguish and separate one product brand to another. Second, they help make better the mundane appearance of any written literature and non-fictional texts. And ultimately, they provide us with information - assisting us how we should think and feel about the world around us - even without the aid of spoken word.

Graphics Design - What Form Of Art It Is?

Graphic design is a form of service art. Hence, no matter how elemental this discipline could get, graphic design is confined to certain purposeful conditions for it to become successful in representing realities through icons.

Moreover, graphic design requires strict adherence to the message it must express. Far from self-expression, every design has to be persuasive or, if not, at least informative to make it different from other artforms, such as fine arts.

Graphics Design - How To Make Meaningful Designs

Another reason that makes graphic design a form of service art is that it necessitates designers to always prioritize the spectators. Designers therefore have to take into consideration what the spectators reactions would be once they were exposed to the design.

Designers also have to think of the aesthetic needs of the spectator. It is indeed probably the reason why graphic designs are incidentally perceived as an artpiece. Besides, how else such designs would channel message if not through the visual language?

For these reasons, designers are trained to recognize not only the grammar of language but also the ability of the visual language to make the design as powerful, emotive, and enduring as any masterpiece can be - yet without failing to be explicit, denotative, and precise.




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