Advertising Design and Graphic Design?

Mildred Pombo: Graphic design has a lot of names. It's sometimes called graphic arts, visual communications, production art, graphic communication, and sometimes even advertising (inaccurately).Generally, advertising is considered the same territory as marketing. They both deal with the study of consumers trends in buying habits and creating strategies for selling products or services. What separates graphic design and advertising is sometimes a muddy area, but if you want to actually be the creator of logos and ads as far as the graphics go, then you want to go into graphic design....Show more

Wilburn Denice: Im also a graphic design major and I would say its totally worth it to double major in advertising. I feel the more you know about advertising the better you'll be at designing for it. It will help you understand the industry better giving you more knowledge on what it is certain clients in particular fields are looking for.

Wally Gower: My degree is in ! Advertising and Graphic Design. They are very closely related because so much graphic design is for ads or promotional stuff. i.e. billboard, brochures, flyers. Things like magazines have both ads and page layout, so you can see there is a lot of overlapping. So I guess it's the basically the same job but they may have different types of clients.This is like discussing the difference between fine art and commercial illustration; both may require watercolors but the end result and clients are different....Show more

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