Graphic
can be signs, like the letters of the alphabet, or from part of another
system of signs, like road marking. Put together, graphic marks- the
lines of drawing or dots of making or choosing marks and arranging them
on a surface to convey an idea.
A
sign is not a picture. Graphic images are more than descriptive
illustrations of things seen or imagined. They are signs whose context
gives them unique meaning, and whose positioning can lend them a new
significance.
Most
usually words and images are used together; either text or image may
dominate, or each have its meaning determined by the other. Some of the
most sophisticated examples of graphic design have relied on the
precision of words to give an exact meaning to an ambiguous image.
