Graphic Designers visualizing ideas

Graphic Design

Graphic Designers Art calls upon a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts. Artists are all about self-expression. Their only boundaries are their own skills and imagination. Graphic Designers deal largely in aesthetics and have the unfiltered freedom to invent new visual codes to deliver their feelings or perceptions. Self-expression becomes a characteristic that must blend with the message. It is the process and art of combining text and graphics and communicating an effective message.

Graphic Designers Art

Swiss graphic designer Josef Muller-Brockman, was one of the great pioneers in the New Graphic Design movement, (also known as Swiss Graphic Design). This two-color poster, designed in 1960, was one of the revolutionary turning points in contemporary graphics. And it was not just another transitory style, it defined a contemporary graphic environment world wide.

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.

It 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 organization, 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.

It is 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 designers often use desktop publishing software and techniques to achieve their goals.

This artform often refers to both the process by which the communication is created and the products which are generated.

Graphic Designers Art and the Message

In graphic design, self-expression becomes a characteristic that must blend with the message. If style becomes too "loud" in graphic design, the work loses effectiveness and turns into noise, interrupting the communication.

In today's competitive field graphic designers must grapple with producing art that appeals (pretty) solutions and creating strategic communication designs that produce results.

James Turner's graphic novel, NIL : A Land Beyond Belief is so graphically dense it really must be seen to be believed. The entire book is done in the black & white vector style and it just works.

Egle Vertelkaite

"Something Unexpected Art Gallery is pleased to present The Other the Same, an exhibition of works by Lithuanian artist Egle Vertelkaite.

Egle Vertelkaite is among the most conceptual Lithuanian graphic (printmakers) artists. She is a participant and award winner at the Main European Printmaking Exhibition. It is possible to recognize her work easily from its' horizontal format: chosen motifs reverberate like an echo against the edge of a picture and are repeated in another work. The line marks not the separation of form and space, but time. As if the artist was drawing a giant staff and people were notes. Vertelkaite subtly connects 'high' art and domestic or even kitschy motifs: roses, hearts and glasses of wine next to characters permeated with existential concerns which only emphasize the drama. It is interesting that in Vertelkaite's works one could often meet people well known in the art world: Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp or a sword devourer from Diane Arbus' photographs. This exceptional company is not just popular icons: not only their images, but also ideas that communicate.

In Scream by Vertelkaite we see Cindy Sherman performing a Lithuanian folk song (just her big mouth and the sound waves), and then Cindy is rising to heaven and is reflected on the water - but we don't know which image is a reflection. We all consist of bits and pieces of information. And when the sound or image is transformed to the sequence of numbers, one can hardly tell the difference between a folk song and a communist, futurist or any other manifesto. Egle Vertelkaite is breaking visual and conceptual codes juxtaposing different contexts. Legs of cancan dancers reflect the multiple gesture of a fascist salute - both dancers and soldiers are merely body-machines under total control of power structures. Drawing a line is always a political gesture. It implies order and separation, ruling and borders." reference

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Nil: A Land Beyond Belief

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Branding through identity design

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Typography can also illustrate concepts that are either defined directly by words or demonstrate or even perform the actions they represent.

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Fingerprint - Book

The book showcases projects from an impressive roster of designers, using handwork techniques that range from lettering, illustration, mixed media and surface embellishments, to printing methods such as letterpress and silk screening. It is an inspiration and a call-to-arms for all designers to step back from the computer and reconnect with our repertoire of non-digital tools, especially the brain. Josh and his team of designers shared with us their collective thoughts and philosophies about handmade design. Afterwards, Josh mentioned he was struck by the synchronicities in his team members' approaches. "Personally," he said, "this reminds me again what a special group of talented, intelligent designers I get to work with day in and day out, and how thankful I am to have them be part of the CDA team. I wouldn't be able to do half the things we've done as a design studio without these guys."

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

by Chen Design Associates

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Design is at a turning point. Our infatuation with--and the backlash against--technology is over. Today's best designers have learned to embrace its advantages and think beyond its limitations by combining the power of the computer with the tactile qualities of handmade elements.

Inside you'll find examples of work that showcase a variety of design methods, including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage. You'll find inspiration in examples from outstanding designers and see how traditional elements can make a more powerful statement than anesthesized computer-only work. Fingerprint also includes insightful essays on the power of the handmade by Debbie Millman, Jean Orlebeke, Jim Sherraden, Martin Venezky and Ross Macdonald.

The projects in this book are beautiful, technical, simple, layered and powerful. Each project communicates its intended message with eloquence.

You can be part of this exciting design revolution. Leave your own fingerprint on the world by exploring the fusion of the digital with the hand-wrought.

Chen Design Associates is a visual communications firm based in San Francisco. Firm Principal Joshua Chen is a frequent guest speaker for professional conferences, workshops, studio tours and educational institutions. The firm self-published the award-winning Peace: 100 Ideas.

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