What does it mean to be a Communication Designer or a Graphic Designer

It means you design graphic communication.

What is communication?

A word (noun) that means different things in different space/times.

See below.

What is design?

A word (verb) that means different things in different space/times.

See below.

What is graphic?

A word (adjective) that means different things in different space/times.

Words and how they are used emerge from long standing human conversations to capture different slices of reality. As reality changes old words get new meanings, and sometimes new words emerge.

Probably some combination of these three words can help capture the new reality that Milieu is trying to articulate.

To see some of the possible ways to combine design, graphic and communication, click here.

Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)

Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Main Entry: communication

Part of Speech: noun 1

Definition: exchange

Synonyms: advice, advisement, announcing, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, disclosing, dissemination, elucidation, expression, global village, intelligence, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, link, making known, mention, notifying, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, translating, transmission, utterance, writing

Antonyms: secret

Main Entry: communication

Part of Speech: noun 2

Definition: information

Synonyms: account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, dope, dope sheet, excerpt, global village, goods*, hot poop, hot story*, ideas, info*, information, inside story*, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop*, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work

* = informal or slang

Main Entry: advertisement

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: notice

Synonyms: ad, advert, announcement, ballyhoo, bill, blurb, broadcast, circular, classified ad, commercial, communication, declaration, display, endorsement, exhibit, exhibition, flyer, literature, notice, notification, placard, plug, poster, proclamation, promotion, promulgation, propaganda, publication, publicity, squib, throwaway, want ad

Main Entry: design

Part of Speech: verb 1

Definition: plan

Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, arrange, block out, blueprint, cast, chart, construct, contrive, create, delineate, describe, devise, diagram, dope out, draft, draw, effect, execute, fashion, form, frame, fulfill, invent, lay out, outline, perform, plan, produce, project, set out, sketch, trace, work out

Main Entry: design

Part of Speech: verb 2

Definition: create

Synonyms: compose, conceive, contrive, cook up*, devise, dream up*, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, invent, make up, originate, produce, think up

Main Entry: design

Part of Speech: verb 3

Definition: intend

Synonyms: aim, contemplate, contrive, destine, devise, make, mean, mind, plan, prepare, project, propose, purpose, scheme, set apart, tailor

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source

Main Entry: graphic

Part of Speech: adjective 1

Definition: explicit

Synonyms: clear, clear-cut, cogent, colorful, compelling, comprehensible, concrete, convincing, definite, descriptive, detailed, distinct, eloquent, expressive, figurative, forcible, illustrative, incisive, intelligible, lively, lucid, moving, perspicuous, picturesque, poetic, precise, realistic, stirring, striking, strong, telling, unequivocal, visual, vivid

Antonyms: softened, vague

Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)

Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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