Is graphic design art?
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- kelpie0
oh ffs
- SigDesign0
Warhol says:
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
- lowimpakt0
someone said that that design that doesn't produce profit is art.
- NickInfozure0
I did my University Thesis, for want of a better word on this subject. I contacted Julian Opie and he actually got back to me and I argued that he was a graphic designer. He didnt like that and said he was an artist. So in short i came to the conculsion that it was a silyl question because its an art from but it is not 'fine art'.
- harmsie0
no its not art. Art is something exists for no other purpose than for itself. Graphic Design is something that exists for a purpose other than itself.
- neue75_bold0
keep going, I'm not sure you've solved it yet...
- set0
Graphic Design = Something
Art = Everything
Graphic Design = ArtBut, Art does not = Graphic Design
- set0
^ I don't agree with the second part of that at all.
Art, originally, was to record and share beauty. It has become completely bastardised just as humans themselves have. I would say 'art at it's best' is about recording and sharing a (beautiful) view point.
- Beautiful being nothing but a personal point of view, meaning ANYTHING + EVERYTHING can be labelled 'art'.set
- neue75_bold0
Graphic design at it's best is about communication and function, art at it's best is about communicating disfunction...
- Bluejam0
"We’re not here to give them what’s safe and expedient. We’re not here to help eradicate everything of visual interest from the face of the earth. We’re here to make them think about design that’s dangerous and unpredictable. We’re here to inject art into commerce.”
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"After 15 or 20 years I discovered that design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do. Now I’m at a point where I’m tired of talking about what kind of accents to use. I want to talk about the words that are being said."
Tibor Kalman
- roundabout0
No
- DesignJudge0
Absolutely not.
Graphic Art is Art. Graphic Design is an Industry.Think it's very important to draw this divide — by all means 'Art' can be incorporated into Design, but the minute a project fails to work to a brief, facilitating a need for a client, it's up for grabs. However, in my opinion it's no longer Graphic Design.
- letters20
Black or white definitions are – as clear and beautifully comprehensible as they are – a need of the past. Take our president elect as an example.
- Corvo20
can you hang graphic design up-side down?
- letters20
Black and white definitions are – as clear and beautifully comprehensible as they are – a need of the past. Take our president elect as an example.
- janne760
i say: yes, but no, but yes, but no, but yes..
- emukid0
nick shits on this thread
- Mimio0
Are people confusing fine art with design these days? Are we clearing up a great social disservice?
- cannonball0
I think my fart director has a copy of that on his shelf