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Graphic arts is a term applied historically to the art of printmaking and drawing. In contemporary usage it refers to the applied trade-skills of a graphic designer or print technician. The term can include the trades of lithography, serigraphy and bindery, among others. Graphic arts as a trade can be traced back to the first instances of the stamped image or word. Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ...
For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ...
Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ...
Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ...
Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ...
Bindery refers to the a place where books are bound, where the various processes involved in incorporating paper materials into a finished form, such as a book are performed. ...
Traditional Meaning
Graphic art is an artistic process of creating a design using a medium (like a rubber or plexy glass) and transferring the image to a material (like paper), thus creating an artistic expression.
Early history Tang Dynasty and Bi Sheng
The technique of printing with carved wood blocks appeared about the 7th century, early in the Tang dynasty. It was invented as a way to enscribe thousands of sheets of rice paper with a memoire of a beloved Empress. Every sheet of paper was placed in hilltops and shrines all over China so that her name would never be forgotten. For the band, see Tang Dynasty (band). ...
Movable type was first invented by Bi Sheng of the Song dynasty between the years 1041 and 1048. This invention was recorded by his contemporary Shen Kuo which recorded it in his Dreampool Essays. During the 13-14th centuries, the agriculturist Wang Zhen made an important contribution to the development of movable type printing.
Moveable type was probably first used in Europe in the mid 15th century by Gutenberg in Germany, who also invented the printing press. This combination then rapidly spread to the rest of Europe, and later the world. Printing became a distinct trade. This article is about the inventor of printing in Europe; for other uses, see Guttenberg (disambiguation) and Gutenberg. ...
The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ...
Lithography Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ...
Serigraphy Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ...
Bindery Old book binding and cover Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. ...
Tools of the trade
- Computers and software
- Process camera work, registration, crop marks & masking
- Cutting edge technologies
From digital proof to plate to press.
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See also Reprografie Communication design is a sub-discipline of design (sometimes referred to as Graphic Design) which is concerned with how media intermission such as, print and digital pieces of work communicate with people in a visual way. ...
Graphics are often utilitarian and anonymous,[1] as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. ...
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ...
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