I went to art school. I ended up going into graphic design because I'm good at it, but also because I got so bloody damned fed up with this sort of discussion, this sort of "more artful than thou" crap. You know what? My clients couldn't give a fat hairy rat's ASS if I designed the fonts, made the Photoshop shapes myself, invented HTML, painted the textures, did the 3D modeling, etc. They pay me for the end result, and how I get there is no issue. So long as they get what they want, they're happy, I'm happy, and it's happy all around. Is it art? Why should I care? Fact is: I don't. And the cover of a magazine isn't "art" in the "fine art" sense. It's "illustration". With illustration (as with graphic design) it's the end result that counts, not the method or materials. And now let's discuss something more important, like, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" bonni

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