GRAPHIC DESIGN
Graphic Design is a form of visual communication. It is
a process in which visual information is given form and
structure. This is often done through the arrangement of
typography and images and take any form from photography to
3D design. Graphic design can incorporate the use of
illustration, iconography, and branding, but is not limited
to these devices.
Graphic design is practiced in numerous fields and media,
the most common are:
- Print - Magazines, newspapers, posters, periodicals,
business collateral materials, print advertisements;
- World wide web and software user interfaces;
- Film, videos, CDs, DVDs - title design, motion graphics,
promotional materials;
- Identity systems, environmental graphic design including
signage, wayfinding, and retail environments;
- Products, packaging, point-of-purchase displays.
According to the classic theory of design, or graphic
design, visual design, art, the visual excitement of a work
of design is a result of how the composition of the design
elements create mood, style, message, and a look.
The art of graphics budded in the 15th century from the
need to produce more than one copy of the same image, in a
society that saw an evolving merchant and bourgeois class
which had economic means so developing cultural and
knowledge needs before allowed only to upper-class people.
The process of graphics has considerably changed in the
course of time since, in the mid 1980s, the arrival of
desktop publishing and the introduction of software
applications introduced a generation of designers to
computer image manipulation and 3D image creation that had
previously been unachievable. Computers are now considered
to be an indispensable tool used in the graphic design
industry. However, a few designers continue to use manual
and traditional tools.
fonte: www.wikipedia.org
