I think and this just me: graphic design is an ad full with stuff in it. i.e. crampped with products, etc, etc, whereas advertising is an ad with lots of white space or you let your mind do the walking. focusing on (1) image alone.
graphics design - making products,fonts, look good trying to sell bunch of stuff (retail style).
advertising- classy style, bmw, mercedes benz and so on.
I say you need a graphic designer to advertise in any advertising outlet.
Graphic design is more than that. When you look at posters for dance events with all those WOW graphics on them, somebody has made those and tought of the composition. The font used somewhere, the colours in an advert. The look and feel of a flyer/leaflet/poster is something a graphic designer handles.
I would say that the Graphic designers handles a lot of stuff
There is difference, but it's not black and white. From my perspective the main difference is that at design studios you go home at 5pm. At advertising agencies you stay late.
Graphic Design is the practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website.
Advertising is the nonpersonal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media. Advertising often uses graphic design in its final communications.
Typically Advertising answers foremost to the idea/ communication where as Graphic Design answers to the visual appearance/ art of a piece.
Thank you for your answers...
Well I don't know if my own definition is accurate...but I think that:
Where there is a need to design information, it's Graphic Design. (brochure, flyer, poster, catalogue)
Where there is a need to communicate a message or persuade people to buy a product, it's Advertising. (tv, billboard, ambient, advergame)
And no this is not an assignment :) , just trying to understand the difference between the two majors, before going back to school.
brochure + flyer + poster + catalogue - they all involve a copywriter too. I can't count the number of flyers, brochures, and catalogues I made. I can't say I really enjoyed it. Posters, on the other hand, are absolutely great to work on.
There is always a need to communicate a message. Flyers do that. Posters do that. Brochures do that.
can't we all just get a long. one thing i can say.. we as creative people make so much difference in this world for better or worse we have a responsiblity to convey the message thru visual communication. remember there is no I in team. but there are 2 "I" in advertising and graphic design.
I'm sorry, but graphic design/er are two titles in which are overused. Just how you define yourself is upto you. I would generally be called a Graphic designer, but to myself i am a visual communicator.
This is what we all are, we all advertise and we all communicate via imagery of any kind. we are as a whole.
Advertiser or Designer we are Visual communicators, some just have better skills with language and can therefore be called a copywriter. so on and so forth. if you ask me it is important that we all be generalists, being able to branch out into different areas of conceptual development.
Yo digo, un aviso con una muy buena idea, pero sin un buen diseño grafico, es como un Porsche Carrera con neumáticos de madera. Obviamente remitiendonos a aquel aviso de Pirelli: Potencia sin control, no sirve de nada.
Estudie diseño gráfico, ahora estoy estudiando dirección de arte. Ambas cosas estan totalmente ligadas y una necesita a la otra.-
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graphic design/viusal communication is fluid... can change and be molded to fit any type of situation while adevertising on the other hand has a structure that has it's origins in marketing, you can't do that change is bad we fear it. this is true few advertising agencies fear to change methods style or even originality. from my experience a design studio creates all it's own art work while an adevertising studio uses istock for all it's imagery needs... personally it is something i despise.
if you can make heads or tales from that good, but if you can not what i am getting at is adevertising is too rigid and fails to create anything of worth while graphic design does, more often than not.
bottom line is you can't have one with out the other. design for the sake of design, with no thought will fall on def ears, or eyes in this case. The smartest idea poorly executed (lack of good design) be it simple or heavy design will have the same effect. Is there a difference between an art director and a design purist, without a doubt. but what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Submitted by nice gaijin on Tue, 2008-04-15 02:24.
There is definitely snobbery on both sides, but conceptual-eyes's definitions come the closest to being accurate and objective.
I think that the mistake most people here are making is thinking of graphic design only in the context of advertising. Just like how advertising is a field comprised of many different professions that come together to work towards a common goal (producing advertisement in its many forms), Graphic design is an extremely broad field with numerous related and separate professions, only a fraction of which falls under the "advertising" category. At its highest levels, design intersects with a number of other fields, from the obvious (communication and marketing) to the obscure or unapparent (psychology, anthropology and so on).
Indeed, graphic designers are visual communicators, but to focus only on the end product is to ignore 90% of the job. If you define graphic designers solely as visual communicators, whether you are one or not, you betray a monumental ignorance of the profession.
Advertising is design with a purpose of selling. WIth the exception of Radio.
Graphic Design is about the relationship between colors, textures and typography.
It's like art, and could be completely subjective.
GD doesn't have to sell a product in order to be qualified as being a good design.
Not so with advertising...
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I think and this just me: graphic design is an ad full with stuff in it. i.e. crampped with products, etc, etc, whereas advertising is an ad with lots of white space or you let your mind do the walking. focusing on (1) image alone.
graphics design - making products,fonts, look good trying to sell bunch of stuff (retail style).
advertising- classy style, bmw, mercedes benz and so on.
I say you need a graphic designer to advertise in any advertising outlet.
I resent that!
Graphic design is more than that. When you look at posters for dance events with all those WOW graphics on them, somebody has made those and tought of the composition. The font used somewhere, the colours in an advert. The look and feel of a flyer/leaflet/poster is something a graphic designer handles.
I would say that the Graphic designers handles a lot of stuff
There is difference, but it's not black and white. From my perspective the main difference is that at design studios you go home at 5pm. At advertising agencies you stay late.
I must say that is not true
That not entirely true, Ivan. There're even ad agencies who let off people on time, design houses who work late till the wee hours.
...
http://alvinpck.deviantart.com/gallery/
i think adevertising and graphic desgin can work hand in hand.
identity, packaging, below the line, web, etc -> graphic design
press, radio, tv, outdoor, etc -> advertising
I would say that posters, flyers, and Guerilla are definitly Graphic Design
Graphic Design is the practice or profession of designing print or electronic forms of visual information, as for an advertisement, publication, or website.
Advertising is the nonpersonal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media. Advertising often uses graphic design in its final communications.
Typically Advertising answers foremost to the idea/ communication where as Graphic Design answers to the visual appearance/ art of a piece.
found a dictionairy?
No, but thanks ;)
Agree with you but in even more simplified terms-
Ads are conceptual.
Graphic Design is more based in relaying information beautifully and stylistically.
Thank you for your answers...
Well I don't know if my own definition is accurate...but I think that:
Where there is a need to design information, it's Graphic Design. (brochure, flyer, poster, catalogue)
Where there is a need to communicate a message or persuade people to buy a product, it's Advertising. (tv, billboard, ambient, advergame)
And no this is not an assignment :) , just trying to understand the difference between the two majors, before going back to school.
brochure + flyer + poster + catalogue - they all involve a copywriter too. I can't count the number of flyers, brochures, and catalogues I made. I can't say I really enjoyed it. Posters, on the other hand, are absolutely great to work on.
There is always a need to communicate a message. Flyers do that. Posters do that. Brochures do that.
can't we all just get a long. one thing i can say.. we as creative people make so much difference in this world for better or worse we have a responsiblity to convey the message thru visual communication. remember there is no I in team. but there are 2 "I" in advertising and graphic design.
That's what I was trying to say. Graphic Design and Advertising are very close together.
The funniest difference I've ever heard was this:
A graphic designer is an art director without a sense of humor.
Sorry if I offend. I used to be a graphic designer.
I've decided I hate signatures.
Art director is a person with a pencil stuck up his/her...
I think that Advertising designs Ideas, and Graphic Designers "puts them on paper"
I'm sorry, but graphic design/er are two titles in which are overused. Just how you define yourself is upto you. I would generally be called a Graphic designer, but to myself i am a visual communicator.
This is what we all are, we all advertise and we all communicate via imagery of any kind. we are as a whole.
Advertiser or Designer we are Visual communicators, some just have better skills with language and can therefore be called a copywriter. so on and so forth. if you ask me it is important that we all be generalists, being able to branch out into different areas of conceptual development.
please say if you disagree
I am a VISUAL PROSTITUTE. I create I get paid.
that's pretty imature, pixelbomb...
When I grow up I want to work in advertising..
http://www.gecko9.com/whenigrowup.html
lol, funny though...
i remember seeing that last month pixel bomb, it amazes me how long it is. Quite humorous.
The best art directors in the history of advertising
were the best graphic designers as well.
Moreover, it was a graphic designer who conceptualised
the concept team: art director & copywriter.
If you didn't know this, I wouldn't be surprised.
It was a best-kept piece of advertising history.
Yo digo, un aviso con una muy buena idea, pero sin un buen diseño grafico, es como un Porsche Carrera con neumáticos de madera. Obviamente remitiendonos a aquel aviso de Pirelli: Potencia sin control, no sirve de nada.
Estudie diseño gráfico, ahora estoy estudiando dirección de arte. Ambas cosas estan totalmente ligadas y una necesita a la otra.-
Graphic Design is a field within Advertising like PR, Marketing, etc.
Is it?
graphic design/viusal communication is fluid... can change and be molded to fit any type of situation while adevertising on the other hand has a structure that has it's origins in marketing, you can't do that change is bad we fear it. this is true few advertising agencies fear to change methods style or even originality. from my experience a design studio creates all it's own art work while an adevertising studio uses istock for all it's imagery needs... personally it is something i despise.
if you can make heads or tales from that good, but if you can not what i am getting at is adevertising is too rigid and fails to create anything of worth while graphic design does, more often than not.
There is no "vs". They are in love.
bottom line is you can't have one with out the other. design for the sake of design, with no thought will fall on def ears, or eyes in this case. The smartest idea poorly executed (lack of good design) be it simple or heavy design will have the same effect. Is there a difference between an art director and a design purist, without a doubt. but what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Is this is Ester Píscore the best designer?
no.
Graphic Design only is an Art
But Graphic design With strategy is an Advertising
hey all
im busy with an essy - id like to know your ideas on the difference between graphic and advertising design...
pls email me your response
There is definitely snobbery on both sides, but conceptual-eyes's definitions come the closest to being accurate and objective.
I think that the mistake most people here are making is thinking of graphic design only in the context of advertising. Just like how advertising is a field comprised of many different professions that come together to work towards a common goal (producing advertisement in its many forms), Graphic design is an extremely broad field with numerous related and separate professions, only a fraction of which falls under the "advertising" category. At its highest levels, design intersects with a number of other fields, from the obvious (communication and marketing) to the obscure or unapparent (psychology, anthropology and so on).
Indeed, graphic designers are visual communicators, but to focus only on the end product is to ignore 90% of the job. If you define graphic designers solely as visual communicators, whether you are one or not, you betray a monumental ignorance of the profession.
Advertising=Smart
Graphic Design=Pretty
Smart + Pretty = perfection
enas= politically correct
Advertising is design with a purpose of selling. WIth the exception of Radio.
Graphic Design is about the relationship between colors, textures and typography.
It's like art, and could be completely subjective.
GD doesn't have to sell a product in order to be qualified as being a good design.
Not so with advertising...
graphic design is part of the result of advertising. Like brochure printing, its design is called graphic design but its result is advertising.
advertising is a part characteristic of graphic design. That means advertising have involve in graphic design.