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What is Graphic Design?
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 17 September 2008, 17:34 Permalink Comments (7)
A simple enough question? Well... not that simple it seems. This revealing (not to say amusing) vox-pop film made last year by Studio Pip & Co. in Australia, shows that our beloved artform still has some work to do in the sphere of public awareness. "Wanky, trendy crap"? A "load of slosh"? Some of it, certainly, but full marks have to go to the guy in the shoe shop who comes up with a pretty accurate (and diplomatic) answer...
7 Comments
2002 was not last year as far as I can remember.
2008-09-18 10:03:34
Yes, well done - the film was actually made in 2002, more info about its creation here:
http://www.peoplethings.com/whatisgraphicdesign/whatisgraphicdesign_afilm.html
(It was uploaded to YouTube last year).
2008-09-18 10:30:08
What a load of Slosh!
2008-09-18 11:01:59
... is the question most Graphic Designers like to think about ...
2008-09-18 14:13:33
'Graphic design' is something that makes some practitioners of the trade believe a self-important film would be so interesting that people want to watch other people confused by the term. In fact, if you took any trade from 'quantity surveyors' through to 'risk assessors', you would get the same mix of responses. Pathetic.
2008-09-19 10:33:29
Wasn't this posted initially on QBN.com?
2008-09-19 16:34:54
I think the guy who posted it on QBN said it saw it here first... (though it is actually a few years old)
2008-09-19 16:38:57
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