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visual design of content in various media

AI overview

Graphic design is the art of arranging visual elements like text, images, and colors to communicate a message across different media such as websites, print, and packaging. It matters because effective graphic design helps people understand information more quickly and makes content more engaging and memorable.

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Encyclopedic overview

Due to its interdisciplinary nature, graphic design can be performed in different areas of application: branding, technical and artistic drawing, signage, photography, image and video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, among other fields.

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design and of the fine arts. Its practice involves creativity, innovation and lateral thinking using manual or digital tools, where it is usual to use text and graphics to communicate visually.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “graphic design” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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