[Sigia-l] Putting the "Graphic" back with "Designer" (was: the lesser importance of home pages)

[Stewart Dean]

On 20/12/05 2:12 pm, "Christopher Fahey" <askrom at graphpaper.com> wrote:

> I wanted to add one thing: I think I am seeing a trend whereby graphic
> designers who had been calling themselves "designers" for the last few years
> are now becoming proud of being "graphic designers" again, and are finding a
> new appreciation for the graphic design traditions that, during the internet
> boom, they were patronizingly told over and over again "were SOOO print".
> The re-emergence of grid systems, increased consciousness of typography (and
> techniques to go beyond the fonts included with browsers), the widespread
> adoption of CSS, have all largely been pioneered by people whose
> appreciation of the "graphic" part has been core to their professional
> identity. 
> 
> It's a trend I hope continues.
>  
> -Cf

Here here,

I work with graphic (aka visual) designers on a constant basis and feel
their role needs to be highlghted. The skill of graphic design on the web
today is now at a standard where it's not seen as a poor cousin to print. In
fact more and more print is starting to look like it took it's ideas from
the web (like the recent BP campaign).

Stew Dean