what is visual design?!?

Inez Relihan: Look, I want to define categories a little bit. Not Yahoo! categories, categories. When my sister went to Brown University to study computers back in the sixties, she got her degree in Applied Math and I learned that computer science was a sub-category of applied math: this is still true. Math is the language we use to make sense of how computers process information. IT might be separate but IT is not computer science. If you want to understand how computers work, you use computer science or engineering.You are specifically asking about pure design. This is an entirely different discipline, which in the form it is practiced today achieved its current form at the Bauhaus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus ). As far as computers go, it began in the late eighties and early nineties when Steve Jobs, whose understanding of the related discipline of Industrial Design is legendary, brought out the Macintosh and Mac Plus, and programs like Pagemaker, Qua! rk XPress, and Photoshop came out for them. (Yes I know they are mainly used on Windows today, but Windows machines had to catch up with Macs before they were even available and Quark XPress, which is mainly for design geeks, is certainly still available for the Mac).What is visual design? It is a way of organizing information using a visual logic: whether you are using photographs, bits of paper and ink, and rubber cement to create paste-ups and collages, or a computer. It by definition exploits the special qualities of each method, so by definition none of the above methods can ever be obsolete. Most questions about it (and some computer questions) are asked in Home > Arts & Humanities > Visual Arts. Sub-categories include: Drawing & Illustration, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and General - Visual Arts.This artist is a photographer and designer: an intelligent discussion of his work would be off-topic here because what he does uses Visual Logic more than it does C! omputer Science.EDIT: If this is coming off as putting you do! wn I'm sorry. That is not my intention. And I love it when I see questions which overlap my diverse areas of expertise, however, this is not a question where the two overlap: possession of the right tools will not make it easier for you to understand how to use either properly....Show more

Barrett Alosa: It can be described as "eye candy". I asked the great Mr. Wiki I. Pedia and he said: "The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture, are called plastic arts...." If it's a pretty design, it's a good visual design whether it has any other qualities or not....Show more