Designing Society - One Graphic at a Time: A study of the Graphics Design Market

Click! The TV turns on and the viewer is bombarded with advertisements, selling anything and everything from cars to toothpaste. While many people find these commercials very annoying, there are some teams of artists that are dancing around, toasting each other for a job well done on a beautiful new accomplishment. These champagne-drinking, funky-monkey dancing artists are none other than graphic designers doing what they do best - graphic design. What is graphic design? "Graphic …

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