Comments on: Is graphic design dead? http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/ An evolving design and communication story by Studio Pip and Co in Melbourne, Australia Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jonathan Gold http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-63105 Jonathan Gold Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:33:31 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/?p=1520#comment-63105 What's wrong with calling ourselves Visual Communicators or just plain Designers? What’s wrong with calling ourselves Visual Communicators or just plain Designers?

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]]> By: Simeon King http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-13186 Simeon King Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:05:19 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/?p=1520#comment-13186 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics (this is gold, and oh what a sentence) "In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and even larger units of discourse (referred to as texts). The basic area of study is the meaning of signs, and the study of relations between different linguistic units: homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, paronyms, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy, holonymy, exocentricity/endocentricity, linguistic compounds." I bet you didn't know there were so many ...nymys? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics (this is gold, and oh what a sentence)

“In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and even larger units of discourse (referred to as texts). The basic area of study is the meaning of signs, and the study of relations between different linguistic units: homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, paronyms, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy, holonymy, exocentricity/endocentricity, linguistic compounds.”

I bet you didn’t know there were so many …nymys?

]]> By: Simeon King http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-13185 Simeon King Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:02:43 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/?p=1520#comment-13185 Why keep the design bit? What's in a name? If we boiled everything down to the bare bone ingredients, wouldn't it just fall under the Ministry of Communication (whereby writers, advertisers, publishers, podcasters, computer games, the mass media, directors, editors and anyone else would all fall in to the one pot?). Before Graphic Design, there were people called Graphic Artists...like Andy Warhol, doing nice drawings of shoes for catalogues...and working for guys like Larry Tate at McMann & Tate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tate, there were also typesetters and paste up guys, and bromide guys, and photographers. Now everyone does everything. Thanks to computers and pixels and digital everythings. We need names and titles...I guess GRAPHIC + DESIGN nailed it for somebody 30 or 40 years ago. Things are still mostly GRAPHIC and mostly still DESIGNED even if they are on the web, or a sign or a bumper sticker. If they aren't they probably deserve another title. Like Interior Design or Desktop Publishing or Marketing. Visual Communication is such a bloody vague term - isn't someone using sign language using Visual Communication? What about a road sign? Or a graffitist? Titles are useful, so are names. Take architects. That is a very descriptive title. If you didn't go through the authentication process then you become a 'building designer'. Same same but different. Don't worry about the name. Do your job. Call it what you want. A spade is a spade. A shovel is a shovel. They both dig dirt, or shift manure, or plant trees. It's what you do with it I guess. Why keep the design bit?
What’s in a name? If we boiled everything down to the bare bone ingredients, wouldn’t it just fall under the Ministry of Communication (whereby writers, advertisers, publishers, podcasters, computer games, the mass media, directors, editors and anyone else would all fall in to the one pot?). Before Graphic Design, there were people called Graphic Artists…like Andy Warhol, doing nice drawings of shoes for catalogues…and working for guys like Larry Tate at McMann & Tate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tate, there were also typesetters and paste up guys, and bromide guys, and photographers. Now everyone does everything. Thanks to computers and pixels and digital everythings.
We need names and titles…I guess GRAPHIC + DESIGN nailed it for somebody 30 or 40 years ago. Things are still mostly GRAPHIC and mostly still DESIGNED even if they are on the web, or a sign or a bumper sticker. If they aren’t they probably deserve another title. Like Interior Design or Desktop Publishing or Marketing. Visual Communication is such a bloody vague term – isn’t someone using sign language using Visual Communication? What about a road sign? Or a graffitist?
Titles are useful, so are names. Take architects. That is a very descriptive title. If you didn’t go through the authentication process then you become a ‘building designer’. Same same but different. Don’t worry about the name. Do your job. Call it what you want. A spade is a spade. A shovel is a shovel. They both dig dirt, or shift manure, or plant trees. It’s what you do with it I guess.

]]> By: Owen http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-13053 Owen Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:35:27 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/?p=1520#comment-13053 Perhaps AGDA could be renamed to Australian Communication Design Cooperative; then the acronym could be ACDC ;p Better title, and potentially thousands more internet search hits. Perhaps AGDA could be renamed to Australian Communication Design Cooperative; then the acronym could be ACDC ;p
Better title, and potentially thousands more internet search hits.

]]> By: John http://peoplethings.com/andblog/is-graphic-design-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-12934 John Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:43:28 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/?p=1520#comment-12934 "Ag-Da" seems easier to say than "Ac-Da". Perhaps I'm just lazy “Ag-Da” seems easier to say than “Ac-Da”.
Perhaps I’m just lazy

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