Graphic Design + Tin Ceilings

Graphic Design, as a profession, has many unanswered questions for those that do not understand what it is I actually do from day to day. First I would like to paint a picture of what graphic design is through definition, and also what it is to me on another level of thought and process.

Graphic Design is ambiguous in itself. It is difficult to pin point a clear definition other than it being a number of disciplines focusing on visual communication and presentation to an audience. Methods are used to create symbols and words to formulate a message or invoke meaning from varying ideas. Often referred to by process and product (or designing to the end result of a finished design).

Through an idea’s conception, practices are put in place to communicate this form of one thing to another and get the attention of a given individual or group that could benefit from such subject matter. It is through conceptualization and reasoning that an idea can formulate into a visual product or thing. Once this is put in a tangilble idea, it is then analyzed through many different tests to ensure its usability and value.

A tin ceiling can be one form of analogical reference. It’s pure intention is for aesthetic value, although its historical content can out do its virtuous appearence. How so many view it for its beauty yet referece its historical existance. It acts as a time stamp, bringing happiness and provokes thought. It has a function as well as visual likeness to itself by doing nothing other than being inside a structure. At the same rate, it covers up what lies beneath it, always sitting on a solid foundation.

Graphic design plays a huge role in identifying the producer of the tin ceiling. Through branding and identity, the world is exposed to the originator of the newly stamped historical ceiling product. Color, image, word all play a role in telling a story to personify this product with a potential buyer.