Definition of The Designer
The profession of Communication Designing is difficult to define. It is never been easy to explain. Difference between the artist who draw painting on walls and the artist who create graphics on Adobe Illustrator is not just the media they use.
However “Icograda” (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations), the world body for professional communication design has made a good attempt to define the profession of Communication designing. ‘Icograda’ gives the standard definitions for the terms and concepts of Communication Design, Communication Designer,Graphic Designer, Graphic Design Process, and Graphic Design.
Take some time to read and understand the design as a strategic process that enables communication in a visual format. If you are a designer, know who really you are!
“Icograda” DEFINITIONS
Communication design
Communication design is an intellectual, technical and creative activity concerned not simply with the production of images but with the analysis, organization and methods of presentation of visual solutions to communication problems.
Communication Designer
One who has the sensibility, skill and experience and/or training professionally to create designs or images for reproduction by any means of visual communication, and who may be concerned with graphic design; illustration; typography; calligraphy; surface design for packaging; or the design of patterns, books, advertising and publicity material; broadcast, interactive or environmental design; or any form of visual communication.
- Ratified by the Icograda General Assembly 22, La Habana, Cuba, 26 October 2007
Graphic Designer
One who has the artistic sensibility, skill and experience and/or training professionally to create designs or images for reproduction by any means of visual communication, and who may be concerned with illustration; typography; calligraphy; surface design for packaging; or the design of patterns, books, advertising and publicity material, or any form of visual communication.
- Articles of Association of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, September 18, 1984
Graphic Design Process
The graphic design process is a problem solving process, one that requires substantial creativity, innovation and technical expertise. An understanding of a client’s product or service and goals, their competitors and the target audience is translated into a visual solution created from the manipulation, combination and utilization of shape, color, imagery, typography and space.
- Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA), Profile/Purpose
Graphic Design
Graphic Design is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving activity which combines visual sensitivity with skill and knowledge in areas of communications, technology and business. Graphic design practitioners specialize in the structuring and organizing of visual information to aid communication and orientation.
- The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario
“Icograda” also invites additional submissions of definitions from its Members and Friends around the world. So, what is your definition for the Designer?