Is Graphic Design Art? Rating Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Well...is it?

http://isgraphicdesignart.com/

I voted yes.

[Joanne]

I wish that website gave some points for each side. =\

But I voted yes.

[dosomethin888]

I voted yes. There are so many more forms of art nowadays then there was before..


Now, there is everything and everyone is so creative.

[Whinoa]

no,

it's cheating!

kiddinidk.

[none345678]

What the hell is it if its not?

I voted yes.

[JonHMChan]

Absolutely. Anyone that puts as much effort into these things (I know I put my blood and tears into this stuff) it should be art. Art is expression - not much else.

[RCKstarh]

i sed yea. but i cant believe how many ppl sed no....

[Simba]

hail yeah

[Amaranthus]

Yes.

I really don't understand how anyone can say no.

[markmejia]

Anyone who said no, please stand up. -_-

[imperfectionistx]

I voted yes (:
Like others said, I don't understand how it isn't considered art :/

[Joss-eh-lime]

everyone said they voted yes, but why exactly is it art?
what is does the term graphic design entail?

using photoshop to brighten a photo?

im just asking otu of curiousity

[lkajsfklajskds]

I wouldn't consider brightening a photo graphic DESIGN. isn't there some sort of other name for it?

[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.

[Whinoa]

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.

Right.

[Joss-eh-lime]

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.

nice answer

[ScArFaCeLaDii]

100% YES (:

[pandemonium]

yes it is!!

[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.

[manny-the-dino]

The people who voted no are post-nuclear twats. It IS art. It just happens to be made on a computer screen instead of the traditional way, with hands.

Agreed.

I voted yes.

[digitalfragrance]

Yes. There's a reason it's called "Design."
Graphic Design = Creating on a Canvas (whether it's electronic or print)
Creating on a Canvas = Art

[Mikeplyts]

^Yeah, just put it that way.

I voted yes.

[datass]

well, if music and literature is consider art also..

[firechild]

art is defined as:
the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
artwork: photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"

doesn't graphic design fit under this? It does to me

[Gigi]

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

Did you even read my post? I said in the first sentence that brightening a photo isn't graphic design. Instead of nitpicking my words, realize that I only used that as an example of something that is done on Photoshop but ISN'T graphic design.