Does creating tee shirt graphic designs fall under graphic design?
I guess this answer can vary to different people, but I would say yes. To create t-shirt designs you use a vector program, the best one out there is adobe Illustrator, and vector graphic are a form of graphic design. after your done creating the graphics and it goes to the screenprinter, then at that point it becomes "screenprinting"
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October 28th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I guess this answer can vary to different people, but I would say yes. To create t-shirt designs you use a vector program, the best one out there is adobe Illustrator, and vector graphic are a form of graphic design. after your done creating the graphics and it goes to the screenprinter, then at that point it becomes "screenprinting"
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October 28th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Yes, it’s one of the many many areas of graphics. I learned to create characters this way and years later use this skill again to create greeting cards which is another area of graphics.
It’s not all nasty flyers for supermarkets you know!
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Replace "creating" in your question to "designing" and reask it:
Does designing tshirt graphic designs fall under graphic design?
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
no its under what we call ( a graphic Art ) coz the technique depends on the silk screen printing and it referees to the GA specialty
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
You answered your own question.
It’s still graphic design, it’s just produced onto a shirt instead of paper.
It doesn’t matter what you used or how it got onto the shirt (screenprinting is not used very often these days due to the labor and cost involved, many printers have moved to digital) but the fact you designed something to be put onto a shirt.
Wikipedia puts these pretty explicitly, as does the Graphic Artists’ Guild handbook:
The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to produce the final result. Graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
The short answer is yes.
Specifically, there is no difference in the creation of designs for posters, packages, magazine pages, websites or tee shirts. It is a graphic designer that does this.
And, just because the process of PRINTING the design, or displaying on a web page may fall under a different class in school, doesn’t separate it from the industry. A good designer had BETTER know the entire process, from concept to consumer if he or she wants to do a good, effective job.
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