What is graphic design to you?

when i hear the word i think…indesign…photoshop…and most of all…good customers!

I was about to refer you to Paul Rand. Few thoughts: 1) Most other definitions are simply rearrangements of Rand’s quote. 2) Why are we defining it?

Graphic Design is about making other designers feel like Idiots because it wasn’t their idea

I always say: “problem solving for visual communication”. Here’s a nice series of visual answers to the question.

studying it for 6 years?? really.. im a graphic design major and i really like it

An income that give me lots of untraditional freedom.

The synergy of words and image to convey a message to a (laregly) unknown audience. And the way I’ve made my living for twenty years.

A means of communicating visually.

Visual communication through a creative use of structure, typography, and graphic abstractions.

Also, I like to consider it a narrative of some sort, as if I am visually orchestrating a narrative through design.

I always tell people “I was to poor a speller to use words”

a visual message. A visual intention or thought.

graphic design is
masking
your ideas

Visual problem solving.

Or as I once read (can’t remember where): “Great design is timeless. Bad design is everywhere.”