Graphic Illustration vs Graphic Arts

What is Graphic Design / Illustration?

Graphic Design is all about communicating ideas through visual content, imagery, symbols and text. We immediately think of posters, magazines and business cards, but today the reach of graphic content and the importance of design covers all areas of human activity.

What is graphic design?: http://www.aiga.org/guide-whatisgraphicdesign

The idea that we can communicate visually is not new, in fact, humans have attempted to record ideas visually from the earliest of times through drawings, pictograms, and images on the cave wall. It's important to spend a little time with your students explaining that there is an incredibly rich history that overlaps with the entire history of art. Graphic Design is now an extremely broad interrelated series of design-based activities. 

Watch these three short videos by The Design Council and meet Neville Brody, the godfather of modern typography to hear directly from some of the world’s greatest designers:

Now let’s hear from some Graphic Designers about the wide variety of work they do, and the history of graphic design:

In this video we’ll hear about the design process, and what needs to be considered in order to create good graphic designs:

From watching these videos we can summarise that Graphic Design is not quite as simple as we may have initially thought, and covers a multitude of design disciplines and design concepts.

What about Illustration?

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