I would like to draw the attention to the CONNECTION
OF ART AND GRAPHIC DESIGN!
I do understand the wide area that graphic design embraces That is why I am
trying to concentrate on the connection between Art and Graphic Design
only.
From my understanding and study it seem that graphic design was influenced
very much by the movements in arts. As a communication tool it has been
used from beginning of mankind (Mesopotamia = iconography), where the
Egyptian alphabet contained the theory as well. Today we refer to them as
works of ART, so why can we not separate graphic design in to appropriate
categories and give them credits as works of ART or as sometimes we refer
to as CLASSIC DESIGNS?
General public still understands - e.g. packaging and branding as selling
tool ‘only’- not as information source, so it seem the only way to correct
that point of view is by appropriate display of past successful branding,
advertising and posters. This if shown through a period of time, where
comparisons can be made of the way we did and the way we do now would show
the differences not only in design but also e.g. in the product
improvements over period of time.
margaret
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