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Graphic design is 'clear thinking, made visual'. The best graphic designers are problem solvers; closer to visual engineers, than they are to decorators.
by lwhi 16y ago
Graphic design is 'clear thinking, made visual'.
The best graphic designers are problem solvers; closer to visual engineers, than they are to decorators.
- derefr 16y agoMy personal gestalt of the word "design", such as it is, is that it is the second step of the creative/problem-solving process: to come up with good solutions, you first generate novel connections between concepts (brainstorm); and then evaluate those concepts, and sort them on, how well they solve the problem, and prune the ones that sort "badly" (design.) You then connect together the ones that sort well (brainstorm again), and prune those, and so on. When someone says that a product "lacks design," it means the bad ideas have not been pruned from it. Good design is minimalist, because it has been pruned incessantly. And so on.