Craft to Career: Designing With Graphic Arts: DIY Visual Projects
Linocut printing is a form of block printing that allows artists to create their own stamps Line and tone are important aspects of most graphic art forms 6 IDEAS Digital graphic design is a form of graphic arts and a popular career field Mw
THE BASICS WHAT ARE GRAPHIC ARTS paper or another surface Heat or chemicals can also be used to create designs that can be inked and printed The term graphic arts can refer to many different forms of visual art It covers most art forms done on a flat surface These include painting printmaking drawing photography calligraphy and more Computer designed pieces are also works of graphic art Graphic arts may get confused with graphic design Graphic design is a form of graphic arts It uses design concepts to communicate particular messages or information Graphic designers arrange text and illustrations together to do this Graphic design also often refers to computer created art There are forms of graphic design that are done by hand But people tend to think of digital processes when they think of graphic design Graphic arts in general aren't necessarily intended to convey information Artists may create works of graphic art just for beauty Or they may craft something practical Though it encompasses many different art forms graphic arts usually refers more specifically to works that rely more on line and tone rather than color These can include drawings engravings and especially printed works Letterpress stamps are used to typeset text for print Graphic artists can make prints in many different ways Techniques range from simply using stamps and ink to using special equipment to screen print Some forms such as woodblock and linocut printing require artists to carve designs into the surface of wood or other material The carved designs are then inked and pressed onto 1
HISTORY OF GRAPHIC ARTS people to print many copies of the same text Graphic art is one of the oldest art forms Its history can be traced back to cave paintings from 45,000 years ago Writing developed in the Middle East around 3000 BCE At first people wrote on slabs of clay Later people wrote on rolls of papyrus and animal skins Paper was developed in China in 105 CE By 600 the Chinese were using woodblock printing Art could be shared by making many prints of the same design Movable type was developed by Chinese artist Bi Sheng in the 1040s This involves arranging wooden or clay blocks carved with letters and symbols The blocks are held together and inked for printing on paper This allowed 8 Around 1450 German printer Johannes Gutenberg invented a new type of printing press This machine used metal instead of wood blocks for letters This new printing press could print more copies of texts more quickly and for a lower cost During the Industrial Revolution lithography and photography were invented These art forms made art more affordable People didn't have to be rich to buy art In the 1900s the computer introduced a whole new way to create graphic art Today different forms of graphic arts are used for a variety of purposes PUE
GRAPHIC ARTS TIMELINE 45,000 YEARS AGO People in many places around the world create cave paintings 600 CE Woodblock printing is used in China 1450 Johannes Gutenberg invents a new printing press that is cheaper and more efficient 1826 French inventor Nicéphore Niépce takes the first successful photograph 1963 Sketchpad the first software that could be used to create an image on a computer is introduced 1990 Photo editing computer program Adobe Photoshop is released 9 ABOUT 3000 BCE Early forms of writing develop 1040s Bi Sheng develops movable type in China 1796 Lithography is invented in Germany 1880s Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype a typesetting machine 1985 Microsoft Paint enables people to create images on their home computers
