commercial art
Art for ads
Commercial art is visual work created for business purposes—advertisements, packaging, logos, product illustrations, and promotional materials.
The term distinguishes work made to sell products or services from fine art made for aesthetic expression.
She studied commercial art before becoming a graphic designer.
The boundary has always been porous; Andy Warhol famously moved between both worlds.
- poster artGraphics for wall display
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- advertisingPaid promotional communication
- ad campaignPlanned marketing offensive
- print adsPromotional content in publications
graphic design · marketing · Madison Avenue · Mad Men · photography · art prints · branding · brand identity · typography · packaging design · product packaging · corporate identity · creative brief · art director · packaging · visual communication · layout · screen printing
- creative industriesadvertising, animation, broadcasting, design, entertainment
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
- mass culturepop culture, popular culture, mass media, mass communication, entertainment
- Arts Industrygallery, auction house, art dealer, museum, theater
- design artsapplied arts, decorative arts, graphic design, industrial design, product design
- graphic design historyBauhaus, Art Nouveau, Swiss design, modernism, postmodernism
commercial artfine art
Aesthetic visual creations
high art · art for art's sake · studio art · experimental art · avant-garde art
commercial artavant-garde art
Radically innovative creative expression
experimental art · abstract art · conceptual art · outsider art · anti-art
commercial, commercials, commercialized, commercialize, commercially, noncommercial, commercializing