Graphic Design

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This paper takes a look at the history, development and evolution of graphic design and explains how all of this can best be understood understood in terms of the central function of graphic design - communication.

Introduction
The Evolution of Graphic Design: A Short History.
A Definition
What is the New Media?
The Influence of Computer Technology
The Changing Process.
Typography and Layout
Illustration
The World Wide Web

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"Graphic designers often see themselves as essentially communicative artists whose function it is to convey ideas, concepts and information through visual and textual imagery and data using a variety of techniques. It is this central communicative aspect which has enabled graphic designers to cover a wide spectrum of media and mediums and to "work across quite a wide range of fields and with different media: for companies and corporate bodies, in book or magazine publishing, exhibition design, signing and architectural graphics, television graphics, and so on. (Kinross, 1992, p. 73)"

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