Graphic design is the most universal of all the arts. It is all around us, explaining, decorating and identifying : imposing meaning on the world. It is in the street,
in everything we read, it is in our bodies. We engage with design in road, signs, advertisements, magazines, cigarette packets, headache pills, the logo on our t-shirt, the washing label on our jacket. It is not just a modern or capitalistic phenomenon. Streets full of sign, emblems, prices, sale offers, official pronouncements and news would have been just as familiar to Egyptian, mediaeval Italians or the People of Soviet Russia.
Graphic design performs a number of functions. It sorts and differentiates “ it distinguishes one company or organization or nation from another¦. It acts on our emotions, and help to shape how we feel about the world around us. – NEWARK, Q. (2002)
Nurul Rahman, Graduate Research Conference (GRC), Autumn, 2007.
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