Is Graphic Design Art? Rating Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Well...is it?

http://isgraphicdesignart.com/

I voted yes.

[Gigi]

Brightening a photo...that's not art. I mean, there may be an art to doing it, but the end product itself IS NOT art. I think it's more like an adjustment. Anyway, good photography should be purely adjustment anyway, and not straight-out photomanipulation.

I consider visual art to be something that you can look at and evoke some sort of meaning or idea behind it. Brightening a photo is NOT graphic design, nor does it make it photographic art unless the photograph itself is artistic enough. I don't understand how graphic design is not an art because it's "cheating". Wtf? Just because anyone and their monkey can download Photoshop and make some ugly ass banner with too many brushes and disgusting fonts, doesn't make them artists. Nor does it nullify graphic design "art".

As for the definition of graphic design, again, I consider it something that you have created yourself, mostly from scratch with just a few stock images or whatnot, that evokes a meaning, feeling, idea, theme, etc. You may dismiss graphic design as art if you consider a lot of the things people do on Photoshop as "trivial", but that doesn't prevent someone who does traditional art from doing something trivial as well. There's a double standard here that simply makes no sense.

[medic]

Brightening a photo...that's not art. I mean, there may be an art to doing it, but the end product itself IS NOT art. I think it's more like an adjustment. Anyway, good photography should be purely adjustment anyway, and not straight-out photomanipulation.

I consider visual art to be something that you can look at and evoke some sort of meaning or idea behind it. Brightening a photo is NOT graphic design, nor does it make it photographic art unless the photograph itself is artistic enough. I don't understand how graphic design is not an art because it's "cheating". Wtf? Just because anyone and their monkey can download Photoshop and make some ugly ass banner with too many brushes and disgusting fonts, doesn't make them artists. Nor does it nullify graphic design "art".

As for the definition of graphic design, again, I consider it something that you have created yourself, mostly from scratch with just a few stock images or whatnot, that evokes a meaning, feeling, idea, theme, etc. You may dismiss graphic design as art if you consider a lot of the things people do on Photoshop as "trivial", but that doesn't prevent someone who does traditional art from doing something trivial as well. There's a double standard here that simply makes no sense.

Brightening a photo isn't graphic design, it's post processing.