What is graphic design?

Graphic Design is a language in which we use words/art to express who we are and to convey our personal styles and techniques.  Whether it's on match boxes, ceiling tiles, or tissue boxes; graphic design is everywhere.  It creates a sort of timeline of where you've been in life, where you're at, and where you're going or where you want to go.  Such as when you go on a vacation either your parents or yourself will get some sort of decorative item for proof you went wherever you did such as a hammock which is what I got when I went to Jamaica.  The design and way the colors were weaved together was mind-blowing to think someone had made this themselves.

Here's a cool video to help understand Graphic Design a little bit more:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeiZ6c6EBw


It's amazing to think that almost everything you look at was created by a graphic designer.  I never truly realized how much graphic design plays a part in how we choose things at the store or in school or even at my own house.  The way the different colors, patterns, and design itself connect to the brain effects our choice when deciding what pattern we want on our tissue box or if we even want a pattern at all.

Another time graphic design has effected my decision making is when I was at a concert last month.  My friend and I had been waiting for this concert for 2 years so when we got there we had to get a souvenir so when we got to the stand there were so many choices we had no idea which to choose because of all the different designs.  We ended up going with the simple album cover and not the out of the box patterned shirt just because it was as loud.  Graphic design is in almost every piece of clothing in your closet; the type on your T-Shirt is graphic design, the rip of your jeans is graphic design, even the tag has graphic design on it for the logo.