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graphic design
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graphic design

The art and profession of selecting and arranging visual elements—such as typography, images, symbols, and colours—to convey a message to an audience. Sometimes graphic design is called “visual communications.” It is a collaborative discipline: writers produce words and photographers and illustrators create images that the designer incorporates into a complete visual message. Although graphic design has been practiced in various forms throughout history, it emerged as a specific profession during the job-specialization process that occurred in the late 19th century. Its evolution has been closely bound to developments in image making, typography, and reproduction processes. Prominent graphic designers include Jules Chéret, Piet Zwart, Paul Rand, Alexey Brodovitch, Milton Glaser, and David Carson.


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Crow was previously a professor of interior design and a graduate mentor at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Under Fascism, the synthesis of Italian art and design developed a strong national identity and was forcefully promoted by the Triennale and the magazine Domus.
 
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