Graphic Designer vs. Visual Designer
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- gramme0
"you can call me Susan, if it makes you 'appy."
–Bullet Tooth Tony
- Meeklo0
Visual Design
Visual Design is the field of developing visual materials to create an experience. Visual Design spans the fields of Graphic Design, Illustration, Typography, Layout, Color Theory, Iconography, Signage, Photography, etc. and any medium, including online, broadcast, print, outdoor, etc. Visual Design is concerned with the elements of visual expression and style. It is often an integral step in Information Design and other communication design disciplines.Graphic Design
Graphic Design is an older term for the field of Visual Design. This term refers specifically to the use of graphic media (such as color, symbol, and type) to communicate a style or expression. In practice, however, Visual Design is a better term since most Graphic Designers are skilled in more than this narrow scope of visuals and graphic elements are only a subset of the possible visual components applicable to visual expression.According to some guy named Nathan:
http://www.nathan.com/ed/glossar…
- pango0
same thing with Graphic Design vs Communication Design. I usually say that i don't care. call me whatever you want! now what do you need! and what can i do for you!
- ukit0
one wears black rimmed glasses and a turtleneck, the other carries a lomo and wears a tee with ironic text set in Akidenz Grotesque
- jfletcher0
I tend to think graphic is more classic & print oriented. I think of visual as having to do with software or on screen areas.
- Thanks jfletcher that's what I was leaning towards, just needed someone else to articulate itComplexfruit
- PonyBoy0
visual designers get laid more
- Oh snap!Complexfruit
- *changes business card from "graphic" to "Visual" designflashbender
- Llyod0
visual designers get paid more
- gramme0
one is blind and the other isn't
- Milan0
simple, one designs graphics and the other visuals, don't ask me what the difference is between a graphic and a visual.
- madirish0
why would you?
- I was just curiousComplexfruit
- gotcha. i just think pidgeon holes are not really that great, that's all.madirish
- studderine0
salary...dem visual designers know a lot thur visuals.
- Complexfruit
Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you define the difference between these two terms, if any?