On 7/12/07, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, but that's still graphic design of the appearance of Websites, NOT Website Design.
No, it's Graphic Design, Not "Graphic Design of the Appearance of Websites". Qualifying it in such a way confuses matters, and is terribly innaccurate.
It's not designing the dynamic structure, usability and accessibility (using Web standards) essential for good Website design which will hold across different platforms/browsers in which the user has control \
Why on earth not? What definition of graphic design do you have which excludes those things? Certainly not one that I've given.
And no, the visual design should not be the first thing to consider in meeting a client's requirements. Too many bad Websites have been produced in which graphic designers who have pretended to be Website designers and placed the visual design first and insist that this is paramount.
Who said anything about Visual design? I explicitly said that graphic design is *Not* about the visual, or aesthetic appearance. As it stands, I am concerned with Graphic design, and you are unconcerned with "visual design" "of the appearance of things. " , which I am largely unconcerned with as well. The only disagreement here is that I disagree that you reacted to anything that was in my post. On the other hand, if you or anyone would like to learn what graphic design is (Hint, it's not making things pretty. Hint hint.) may I suggest Meggs' History of Graphic Design. This is also a good book for the original poster. Others are Eric Speikerman's "Don't Steal Sheep", and Robert Bringhurst's "Elements of Typographic Style", which admittedly are only about typography, which is just one aspect of Graphic Design. I will leave it at that. If you would want to have further discussion of this with me off list, I would suggest at least humoring my premise "Graphic Design's primary focus is not visual", and you will have a higher chance of learning something, such as what Graphic Design's primary focus is. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
