Comments on: Communication design, the definitive definition. http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/ An inspration feed updated daily by the troublemakers at Language in Common Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: walkingstick http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27347 walkingstick Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:27:06 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27347 I like it. I've used this: Art is about the relationship between the artist and their work. Design is about the relationship between the work and its intended audience. If it is pretty but does not effectively communicate a specific message to a specific audience to achieve a specific result, it is a simply a pretty piece of confusing visual white noise that fails its intended purpose there by making it art and not design. Put it in a frame, hang it on a wall and call it a stylized visual expression and you may make some money off your creation. I like it. I’ve used this:
Art is about the relationship between the artist and their work. Design is about the relationship between the work and its intended audience. If it is pretty but does not effectively communicate a specific message to a specific audience to achieve a specific result, it is a simply a pretty piece of confusing visual white noise that fails its intended purpose there by making it art and not design. Put it in a frame, hang it on a wall and call it a stylized visual expression and you may make some money off your creation.

]]> By: Michael Holdren http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27369 Michael Holdren Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:11:20 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27369 So now there's yet someone else adding to the pile of what they feel is "the" definition, when it's really just "their" definition. I have mine, Bass has his. Rand had his. I bet Armin has his. Bierut, Scher, Danziger,, Bantjes has hers, and the list goes on an on and each definition (as well as the "definitive" term) is always different, in semantics at least. The philosophy itself varies somewhat less, but it's no less tragic. This should be a call, loud and clear within our industry, for certification and standardization. So now there’s yet someone else adding to the pile of what they feel is “the” definition, when it’s really just “their” definition. I have mine, Bass has his. Rand had his. I bet Armin has his. Bierut, Scher, Danziger,, Bantjes has hers, and the list goes on an on and each definition (as well as the “definitive” term) is always different, in semantics at least. The philosophy itself varies somewhat less, but it’s no less tragic.

This should be a call, loud and clear within our industry, for certification and standardization.

]]> By: josh kamler http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27490 josh kamler Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:55:39 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27490 @michael really? bass and rand and the rest have articulated definitions for Communication Design? it sure would be cool it if you pointed them out to us. @michael
really? bass and rand and the rest have articulated definitions for Communication Design? it sure would be cool it if you pointed them out to us.

]]> By: Michael Holdren http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27506 Michael Holdren Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:17:26 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27506 Call it communication design, graphic design, visual engineering, graphic art... we all have our own terms and definitions for what we do. I do apologize for my cynicism though. This kind of thing always comes up and it's an easy enough of a knee-jerk reaction to have. What we do is so very subjective that no one will ever be able to pin down, in specific words, what it is about our lives that our parents will never understand. Call it communication design, graphic design, visual engineering, graphic art… we all have our own terms and definitions for what we do.

I do apologize for my cynicism though. This kind of thing always comes up and it’s an easy enough of a knee-jerk reaction to have.

What we do is so very subjective that no one will ever be able to pin down, in specific words, what it is about our lives that our parents will never understand.

]]> By: josh kamler http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27520 josh kamler Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:32:08 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27520 @michael except that in your list, communication design is the only one that is not exclusively about the visual product. it is actually a different practice than graphic arts/graphic design/visual engineering. which is why we wrote the definition. @michael
except that in your list, communication design is the only one that is not exclusively about the visual product. it is actually a different practice than graphic arts/graphic design/visual engineering.
which is why we wrote the definition.

]]> By: Michael Holdren http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27569 Michael Holdren Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:43:32 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/04/17/communication-design-the-definitive-definition/#comment-27569 I saw this as part of the definitive definition: "And that meaning can be shared through words, images, and experiences." The word "images" made it an all encompassing thing for me. I saw this as part of the definitive definition:

“And that meaning can be shared through words, images, and experiences.”

The word “images” made it an all encompassing thing for me.

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