Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art Design and Knowledge in the University and the “Real World”

• Lectures from programs such as semiotics, literary theory, etc. were introduced to students back in 1937 in the New Bauhaus of Chicago.
• Design is synthetic, meaning that "it does not have a subject matter of its own. It exists in practice only in relation to the requirements of given projects."
• Proposes graphic design education as a liberal arts subject
• Aristotle defined liberal arts as: not mechanical; not utilitarian; no restrictions in the mind; and has an intrinsic value.
• Educators should pick up the trends to prepare their students for the future. Make them adaptable
• Liberal art could include: history and theory.
• Design is about meaning and how meaning is created: where science, literature, sociology and history all take part.