What is Graphic Design?

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…

Comments...

2002 was not last year as far as I can remember.

frenki
18/Sep/08, 10:03 am

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).

creativereview
18/Sep/08, 10:30 am

What a load of Slosh!

Ryan Killeen
18/Sep/08, 11:01 am

… is the question most Graphic Designers like to think about …

Andrew
18/Sep/08, 2:13 pm

‘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.

David
19/Sep/08, 10:33 am

Wasn’t this posted initially on QBN.com?

Hon Lam
19/Sep/08, 4:34 pm

I think the guy who posted it on QBN said it saw it here first… (though it is actually a few years old)

creativereview
19/Sep/08, 4:38 pm

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