Brittany Kleckner
History of Graphic Design
Professor Robert Jones
December 7th,
2012
Communication Arts Critic
When I first thought about “Communication Arts” magazine,
I thought it was about art communicating to you through different visuals. As I
glanced and read the magazine, it brought you the latest information and
designs about the graphic design world. They interview current graphic designers
and have up to date galleries every month with a small story behind each design.
“Communicating Arts” focuses on two major sections, which are its monthly galleries
and current events as interviews and articles.
When looking through “Communication Arts” galleries, you
see various styles from different designers based on how they approach and set
up their project or idea. Each design has a small description about the concept
and process of their design; they would even have little background on the
designer. At the end of each description, it shares the designer’s success from
their project with the client and where they are now. If you look at each
design, they use everything they learn from art school and use it to transform
it into an artwork from active and busy to simple and plain. As most of us know
by now, a designer is given the idea of “less is more,” which is gestalt. These
designers have simplified it to the viewers that make it look like it is more. Not
only were the designs a major contribution to the magazine, the current events in
the graphic design world are also a major thing in the magazine.
“Communication Arts” have the latest information as interviews
and articles about a designer. They would have many interviews from any
designer. If you go to their website, they would have one preview of who the
magazine interviewed and how important they are by making the preview, their
design, and a picture of the designer
bigger than the rest of the interviews. This signifies that this person
or group is important, and it is a recommended interview to read about. At the
end of each interview, they always explain how successful they are and how
grateful they are for it. They also have articles on current designers and
firms and new software and technology. They also have articles on designs that
are either controversial or currently well known to the graphic design world.
AS for new software and technologies for a designer, they give up a preview on
the latest materials that a graphic designer would have like an update on an
Adobe software or how to make a design on a particular software. All in all, “Communication
Arts” shares plenty of information and designs to soon to be or current graphic
designers in order for them to recognize that this magazine shares events and
designs as inspiration.
Because of their current events and galleries, “Communication
Arts” is a useful magazine for graphic designers that want to explore new
designs and learn about how a designer or firm became successful. If they
wanted to look at designs from every type of designers, the magazine would
display designs every month to show to the viewers what they created and their
story behind it. There is current information about the designer or the firm,
and they would get the viewer’s attention with either a design that a person
did or an interesting article title with a preview of what the whole article is
about. For soon to be or current graphic designers, “Communication Arts” is for
people who want to explore the endless inspirational designs and interviews
that will help a graphic designer be successful.
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