Graphic Design is not art

[danny kay]

Graphic Design is totally different from Art in my opinion. To me graphic design is about communicating with the audience, getting a message across, targeting a certain audience if needs to be and problem solving while using words, symbols and images as little as possible.

The thing that annoys me is when people relate you to art or think you just do whatever, bit of color here, picture there and thats it, but its simply not.

With out Graphic Designers the world would be dead or a very blank world.

I'll second this! what a great statement

[dot design]

I remember hearing this on Foundation: 'Artists solve their own problems, designers solve someone else's' which I like!

Paul's pretty much summed it up there, great quote!

Although graphic design can become art in some cases when said designer is producing their own work, ie: acting as their own client and getting others to purchase it, eg: selling prints etc.

[Paul Murray]

Graphic design + Picture frame = ART!

[YellowPeril]

I think if it came to it, I could have taken Hockney in a street fight!

[matt]

I thought that for something to be "Art" it needed to have no other use than as a piece of art.. If you're design has no use, then you're doing something wrong!