HISTORY DKV

Glossary of Visual Communication Design has been frequently heard, but still many who do not know sebanarnya term and to what extent the scope of its influence in our everyday lives.

Some people are easy to interpret visual communication design is identical to the handyman handyman job advertisement or advertisements make along the way with advertising signage that reads "accept orders sepanduk an hour so, print invitations, silk screening, etc.. That glimpse of some of our communities, so they looked at the eye of the wrestling in the world of design


There are also some people who thought that the Visual Communication Design (DKV) is identical with the ad. It is not wrong in that statement, but also not completely true. Advertising is only one of the fields generated by the visual communication design.

For advertising professionals and the academic world in the field of communication this term has been known, although the Visual Communication Design is a new term. Academic circles even call it diverse, there is a mention as DKV (Dekave) or DISKOMVIS, which is the acronym of Visual Communication Design.

We unknowingly when viewing the visual appearance of our surroundings, in fact our daily lives surrounded by the products field of Visual Communication Design. Start of us wake up in the morning until you fall asleep in the clash, visual communication design to accompany us throughout the day of our lives, both in urban finite over remote villages in this country and even from private space to public space.

Word Origin of Visual Communication Design If we start defining the visual communication design in terms of the origin of words (etymology), the term is composed of three words, the design is taken from the word "designo" (Italy), which means the image. Who's in English design is taken from the Latin designare) which means to plan or design. In design terms the world of art combined with their shapes, their visual, design or sketch ideas.

Then said communication means conveying a message from a communicator (a messenger) to the communicants (the recipient) through a medium with a specific purpose. Communication itself is derived from English language communication is taken from the Latin "communis" meaning "same" (in English: common). Then communication was later considered as the process of creating a common suatau (commonness) or suatau unity of thought between the sender (communicator) and receiver (communicants).

While the visual word meaning anything that can be viewed and responded by our vision of the eye senses. Derived from the Latin word videre meaning to see that then inserted into the English language visually.
So Visual Communications Design can be regarded as art convey a message (arts of commmunication) by using visual language (visual language) delivered through the media is a design that aims to inform, influence to change the target audience behavior in accordance with the goals to be realized. The visual language is being used graphic form, sign, symbol, illustration images / photos, typography / letters and so forth based on the rules of visual language unique visual layout based on science. The contents of the message expressed in a creative and communicative, and contains solutions for problems which would be submitted (both social and commercial or form of information, identification and persuasion).

Book Introduction to Research Methods in Cultural Arts, explained Agus Sachari Visual Communication Design is a profession that assess and study the design with various matters relating to both the approach of communication, media, the image of the sign and value.
Visual Communication Design also reviewed matters relating to communications and message, printing technology, use of multimedia technologies and techniques of persuasion in society.

The scope of Visual Communication Design Includes: 1.Advertising (advertising) 2.Animasi 3.Desain Business identity (corporate identity) Marka 4.Desain environment 5.Multimedia Graphic 6.Desain Industry (promotion) 7.Desain Graphic Media (books, newspapers, magazines, dll0 8.Cergam (comics, cartoons, posters) 9.Fotografi, typography and illustration
History in Brief Glossary of Visual Communication Design in Indonesia The term is new visual communication design popular in recent times, a new fact is known in Indonesia in the early 1980s. Raised by Gert Dumbar (a graphic designer Netherlands) in 1977, according to her graphic design not only take care of printing the print-only. But also take care of the moving image, audio visual, displays and exhibitions. Thus the term graphic design is not enough to accommodate the development of an increasingly broad. Then raised the term visual communication design as we know it today.

What the Difference of Visual Communication Design and Graphic Design?
Many people are often confused with some terms that were almost identical. We often hear about the term that is almost similar to other visual communication design, namely graphic design and graphic arts.

The term itself is a visual communication design described above. While the graphic design itself is one of the most frequent terms disalahtukarkan with visual communication design. Indeed both are very closely linked, but actually there are differences between them.

Graphic Design Graphic Design or Graphic Design. Graphically according to word etymology is derived from the word graphic (English) derived from the Latin graphe (who adopted the Greek word graphos), which means writing or drawing etched in stone.
Design itself is a process of thoughts and feelings that will create something, by combining facts, construction, function and aesthetics to meet human needs or graphic design can also be interpreted in a concept of visual problem solving, colors, materials, techniques, costs, effectiveness and usage of disclosed in image and shape.
In the case of graphic design includes various fields such as engineering design drawings, shapes, symbols, letters, photography and printing processes accompanied with the knowledge of materials and cost. Usually the graphic design is usually applied to static media, such as books, magazines and brochures, but in line with the times, graphic design is also applied in the electronic media, which are often referred to as interactive design or multimedia design.

The purpose of graphic design than to create a functional aesthetic design or planning, but also an informative and communicative with the community that is also equipped with an understanding of mass psychology and theories of marketing, so that the works of graphic design can be a powerful promotional tool.

From this graphic design as well as other design type refers to the process of manufacture, design methods, the product (design), or any discipline that is used (design).

People who work in the field of graphic design it is called as a graphic designer (graphic designer), but oddly enough people working in the field of visual communication design, is very rarely referred to as visual communication designers. Usually a name given still a graphic designer.

Today Graphic Design using Software tools include: Desktop publishing: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Coreldraw, GIMP, Inkscape, Macromedia Freehand

Web design: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, Notepad
Audio visual: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier, Final Cut, Adobe Flash, Macromedia Flash or previous

Rendering 3 Dimensional: 3D StudioMax, Maya, AutoCAD Graphic Arts
Graphic arts (and this is most often confused together as graphic design) is entered into the fine arts (fine arts). While the graphic design into the group of applied arts (applied arts). Yes, the treasure of art, there is a classification of art into fine art and applied art. Referred to as pure art is if the purpose of creating art is to solely to spiritual fulfillment and expression of the artist alone. While the applied arts is an art that was created was to fulfill a requirement.
Printmaking is a branch of art-making process works using printing techniques, usually on paper. Except in Monotype technique, the process is able to create copies of the same work in quantity, this is called a print. Each copy of the work known as the 'impression'. Painting or drawing, on the other hand, creating a unique original artwork.
Media & Graphic Arts

Media used in graphic arts in the form of water-based ink, watercolor, oil-based ink, oil pastel, and pigment in water-soluble solid, such as dating D'Ache crayons.
Graphic artwork created on the surface called a plate. Techniques using digital methods are becoming increasingly popular today. Surface or matrix that is used in creating works of graphic includes wooden planks, metal plates, sheets, acrylic glass, sheet linoleum or stone lithography. Another technique called serigrafi or screen printing (screen-printing) using a sheet of porous fabric stretched on a frame, called a screen. Prints can be made even smaller by using the surface of potato or yam.

Referense: Graphic Design Graphic arts