Wikipedia:WikiProject Graphic design

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Welcome to the Graphic design WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Graphic design. (For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Contents 1 Purpose 2 Scope 3 Guidelines 4 Tasks 4.1 Open tasks 4.2 Task suggestions 4.3 Requests for page assesment 4.4 Article Alerts 5 Origins of this Wikiproject 6 Members 7 Sources

[edit] Purpose

This Wikiproject aims to create a more complete understanding of the breadth of the discipline by explaining the role of Graphic design in different contexts, and by drawing connections between Graphic design and its many related disciplines, areas of interest, and specializations.

[edit] Scope

One route to achieving a more complete understanding of Graphic design is to frame it in a variety of contexts:

• The history of Graphic design
• The business of Graphic design
• Professional accreditation in Graphic design
• The science of visual communication (semiotics, perception)
• The Political impact of Graphic design (ie. poster design and war propaganda)
• Design movements (Arts and Crafts, Scandinavian modern, etc.)
• Design education

[edit] Guidelines

Learn all about how Wikipedia works, what constitutes a great article, and how to go about editing an article here:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• The Manual of Style

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Graphic design:

Recruit motivated design practicioners, educators, and organizations to join this Wikiproject Add articles to project each design related article (here's a good list) as within the scope of this Wikiproject by adding the following code to the top of its talk page {{WikiProject Graphic design}}. If there are multiple projects claiming an article, try to consolidate them with {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} or {{WPB}} codes. Categorize Design-related articles not already in Category:Graphic design by adding [[Category:Graphic design]] near the bottom of each article. Be sure to properly categorize any new article you write! Proper categorization will cause an article to automatically appear in the category index. Develop a skeleton structure off which to hang a revised main article on Graphic design Create a list of stub articles on topics for which there is no article yet, and publish them on the main page a list of articles in need of repair/restructuring

[edit] Task suggestions

Get involved in editing the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, especially regarding how graphics are used on Wikipedia. Oicumayberight (talk) 17:19, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for page assesment

Hello, most wikiprojects have a section like this, the general rules seem to be a page can be requested for evaluation at most once a month. As I have been spending a bit of time editing GIMP, I would like to make the first request. feel free to delete this and put in a better explanation if this is agreed :)

I have added an assessment sub-page in order to give direction and context for requests like this. For now, let's continue to list articles here. -- UnkleFester (talk)

• GIMP, state unevaluated --Gnepets (talk) 13:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

• Article appears to give excellent coverage of the subject, is readable and clear, as well as being reasonably well laid out. I am rating it "Good Article" on the Graphic design quality scale.-- UnkleFester (talk) 1 July 2009 21:08 (UTC)

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[edit] Origins of this Wikiproject

The initiative that led to the creation of this Wikiproject grew out of a meeting of the Vancouver Graphic Design Meetup on September 11, 2006.

[edit] Members

{{User WP Graphic design}} This user is a member of WikiProject Graphic design. You may wish to place this userbox on your user page to indicate your commitment to the project.

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Steveluscher (talk · contribs) (Web design / development, accreditation, information architecture)
2. Hitrish (talk · contribs) (Member at large, information architecture, editorial contributor)
3. Rasi2290 (talk · contribs) (Elements of graphic design; design as process, product, and career; design today; impact of technology, what is/isn't graphic design)
4. Chelt (talk · contribs) (History of graphic design, design education, information design, type + image, graphic design as fine art)
5. Magnaniteck (talk · contribs) (Web Design, History of graphic design,image)
6. Oicumayberight (talk · contribs) (Communication Design, Media Studies, Advertising)
7. sh0wnpc (talk · contribs) (Visual Design: print, web, application, mobile. Graphic Design and Art. Process)
8. Zinjixmaggir (talk · contribs) (Industrial design, web design, typography, information design, visual communication, usability) (inactive)
9. Recury (talk · contribs) (History of graphic design, categorization)
10. seXie^(t0lk) (Interface design, vectorization)
11. Modelwatcher (talk · contribs) (comparative analysis of webpage editors, categorization, web design, web development)
12. Alper Ersoy (talk · contribs) (visual communication, typograpy, usability, web design, categorization)
13. Parhamr (talk · contribs) (jack of all trades)
14. Bonzobonce (talk · contribs) (Graphic design process, accessible design, design management, cross-media interaction)
15. Andrew c (talk · contribs) (typography, history of Graphic design, web/CSS, etc)
16. Indoles (talk · contribs)
17. Mythobeast (talk · contribs) (software engineer, graphic designer, mathmatic modeler)
18. Bbh123 (talk · contribs) (graphic designing, terms)
19. Tkgd2007 (talk · contribs) (graphic designing, web design/development, graphic design software, typography, visual design)
20. necz0r (graphic design, drawing, technical illustration, web design, interface and navigation design, typography)
21. Imag1nation(art, painting, graphic design, drawing, technical illustration, web design, interface and navigation design, sculpture)
22. Grafista (graphic design history. Areas of interest: United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy)
23. UnkleFester (graphic design history. Schools of interest: postmodernism, cranbrook emigre, rise of user-centered design)
24. MugRack (graphic design history, illustration, typography)

[edit] Sources

Suggested sources for use by editors.

1. Looking Closer series - collection of critical essays. (Historical essays are in Looking Closer 4.)
2. Meggs, Philip. History of Graphic Design - an omnibus history of graphic design. Beware of factual errors.
3. Hollis, Richard. Graphic Design: A Concise History

represented by Ahsan Bilal (Graphic Designer)