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Graphic design is basically college-level meme making.

is the art of spending a great deal of time to make something look like it took no time at all.

Graphic design is basically taking a ton of time to make something look like it took no time at all.

is an art that can never be for its own sake. It will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.”

“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.”

is the form that purposeful planning takes.

“Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

is not about making things pretty; it is about communication, communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas.

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

is an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

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