Ciska Swaak/WA
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What is your craft?
Graphic designers becoming more multidisciplinary these days.
A lot graphic designers mostly art academy schooled are visual(graphic) artists in my eyes.
Because they are creative thinkers who solving problems by looking form a lot of other approaches wich can results in artpieces.
The boundaries between traditional graphic design and graphic design nowadays are getting vague by using traditional craftsman techniques on new ways.
If i take a look at myself my education i am multidisciplinary schooled as a all-round dtp’er, multimedia designer and Graphic designer.
I am trying to know and learn a lot of different disciplines so i can use my knowledge for almost.
My goal is to be a geeky-graphic designer/artist.
Working with algorithms, mathematical formules, repetition, code/scripting to create graphics.
What are the tools and media of your craft?
A short list of the tools i use: my brains/mind my imagination experience knowledge spatial ability adobe creative suit camera’s digital and analogue and off course my computer.
A short list of the media i use: The big world called the internet give me the most information in one click to use, research and create with. books point of view experience
What are the borders of this practice?
It is hard to define borders of graphic design while the new technologies grows day by day. We have acces to new printing techniques and technology to create. I think that the borders can be so far away as you want. And that you probably wouldn’t meet them often.
Historical discourse of inspiring historical and contemporary practitioners.
Graphic and type design started early, when it wasn’t called graphic or type design.
COMMENT JON
What are elements that make a geek graphic designer. What does the use of algorithms and code do for your practice. Does is help you make decisions? Make sense of information? Keep things in constant flux? Try to be more specific of why this is interesting and what effects it has on the kind of work you make.
You say that you can put the boarders of your discipline far away and then you would not meet them. What does it mean to design with no limits? Could you move your boarders closer to help frame your practice?
