Editing Graphic designer (section)

=== Origins ===
The [[Industrial Revolution]] in England had drawn a distinctive line between fine art and commercial art, and this split formed graphic design as a modern design profession.{{cn|date=April 2025}} During the first and second world wars, graphic designers were needed to unite, persuade and inform citizens with the help of printed media.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nirbrant |first1=Marcus |last2=Hvannberg |first2=Ebba Thora |last3=Lindquist |first3=Siniia |chapter=A theory of skills of software, interaction and graphics designers: Contrasting aspects emerging from empirical studies |date=2011-10-19 |title=Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2079216.2079242 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=ACM |pages=177–188 |doi=10.1145/2079216.2079242|isbn=978-1-4503-0754-3 }}</ref> The post war era shifted designers’ focus to the advertising and consumerism promotion.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nirbrant |first1=Marcus |last2=Hvannberg |first2=Ebba Thora |last3=Lindquist |first3=Siniia |chapter=A theory of skills of software, interaction and graphics designers: Contrasting aspects emerging from empirical studies |date=2011-10-19 |title=Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2079216.2079242 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=ACM |pages=177–188 |doi=10.1145/2079216.2079242|isbn=978-1-4503-0754-3 }}</ref> The profession of graphic design emerged from the printing and publishing industry, and the term has been widely used since the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ambrose |first1=Gavin |last2=Harris |first2=Paul |last3=Ball |first3=Nigel |date=2020 |title=The Fundamentals of Graphic Design |url=https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474270304 |doi=10.5040/9781474270304|isbn=978-1-4742-7030-4 }}</ref>