Commercial Art/Communicative Art

JanieDough

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I'm sorry, but I don't like graphic design majors. My friend is a GD graduate, and she takes MONTHS to do something I could do in an hour because she custom makes her fonts, fiddles with the spacing and the ten million different shades of red.

She makes a big deal out of fonts and composition. A BIG DEAL.

Yes, somethings do require a lot of detail work to be beautiful, but others are just a tad overworked - and for what? A ten second viewing of the GD's personal taste or feel.


SOME people are really talented though. I'm sure it doesn't take them months just to make a shipping label.


Here are some cool examples of art being communicative (basically commercial/radical).

http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/tok-stok-business-card.html


Maybe it's art, maybe it's not.
 
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what happened to the old days when a Graphic Designer actually had to have "artistic talent" and not just computer skills.

These days its all done for them....they only need to click buttons and twiddle knobs.
 
cam elle toe said:
what happened to the old days when a Graphic Designer actually had to have "artistic talent" and not just computer skills.

These days its all done for them....they only need to click buttons and twiddle knobs.
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I completely agree. I mean all the GD majors at my school have to take all the other art classes, but it's not the same as taking out a pencil or paint brush.

But that's every field of visual arts - photography too. Talk about a crime. The disappearance of dark rooms is such a shame.
 
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