WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN?

Everybody involved in graphic design will all have their own separate, influenced or not impression of what graphic design actually is, what it contains, the skills that it incorporates and what it means to call yourself a graphic designer, and this is what makes it such a unique and expansive subject. many designers will still tend to try and use traditional creative techniques such as mark making and cut and paste styles as (i believe) these hold the most crisp & effective aesthetics and it is a lot more rewarding to create using hands on methods. The technological advances that have occurred over the last 20 years has meant that the media used to produce design is now broader and more versatile, personally learning my trade in the 21st century i think is more exciting than ever before, the opportunities to learn to use software that lets you create almost anything you want visually and be able to pick and choose from techniques that i pick up from those teaching me and others around me.

For this project i have produced a poster containing 6 examples of views that people have on the subject, or just their interpretation of the question, from a competition pool on flickr in which participants have submitted artwork and the won deemed best would win. I thought that this was a good way of getting a diverse range of opinions to recreate in my own way, there are some very interesting comments and this when communicated graphically puts across my own view that graphic design is different for everybody involved in it and thats what makes it so unique. 

https://www.flickr.com/groups/what_is_graphic_design_poster_competition/