Assignment 1a – Introduction Video

Assignment 1b – Reading Response

Based on the readings from Helen Armstrong “Helen Armstrong, “Introduction: Revisiting the Avant-Garde” from Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field (2009)“and Bruno Munari “Bruno Munari, selected chapters from Design as Art (1966)”, the roles that design should play in our lives and culture is being able to have art communicate with the people. Designs playing a role in our lives is most likely the arts being some sort of an important factor to us, especially as we are growing up with it too. For instance, when it comes to the arts in modern times, people can naturally choose what is art to them. Take video games for instance. Video games are a form of art that would also be considered a cultural thing since it does reach out to a lot of people.

What distinguishes the fields of designs from other types of creativity is based on what kind of design it is? Would the design be in the form of a painting, a comic book, perhaps a poster? Designs come in many different shapes, forms and sizes and each and everyone of them would always turn out to be unique in its own way. However, one specific field of design would have to be graphic design mainly for the fact that it’s a type of field that would cover just about anything.

When it comes to theoretical questions, the kind of questions that designers are normally concerned about or even stuck on are the ones that dives into depth with their designs. It’s pretty much those kinds of questions that for some odd reason makes everything you do feel kind of thrown off. Although these kind of questions may seem rather intimidating, they are indeed very important which would allow designers to grow. Tough questions like this would remind me of the most urgent problems facing designers today. My interpretation on this would have to be making the final calls in a set design. My reason for this is mainly because most designers would be working for a company and when a designer makes a really nice design, sometimes it just doesn’t make it to the cut. With that being said, it is up for the designer to be able to solve this problem by taking any given critiques and to have a different perspective when it comes to these things.