Printmaking and Graphic Design
Justin Lemaire
Another interesting subsection of graphic design in terms of the final format is printmaking. Printmaking has been discussed tangentially in other posts on this blog, but it should be given at least a single post just to the topic because it is a very important part of the graphic design field. The art of printmaking simply has to do with the idea of printing on paper in a way that creates a very beautiful graphic design. In old times the printmaking would have been done through a press and impressions and there are many different techniques still in effect today that use this very old and very tried method of graphic design.
Modern printmaking however makes use of everyone’s favourite piece of technology, the computer. You can now create all of the graphic design work through the use of graphic design software on a computer and then hook that computer up to a printer to achieve the exact same results as you were able to have before. The process is a lot faster and far more efficient, saving companies millions of dollars annually.
Since each printed piece is still an original creation, the term “print” as opposed to “copy” is still valid and by extension the term printmaking is also still valid. This is just one way in which an ancient graphic design format has been made easier to accomplish with modern technology.
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