Katowice, Poland

Advertising Graphics

Grafika reklamowa

Integrated Master's degree
Field of studies: Graphic Arts
Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: en.wst.com.pl
Advertising
Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea. Sponsors of advertising are typically businesses wishing to promote their products or services. Advertising is differentiated from public relations in that an advertiser pays for and has control over the message. It differs from personal selling in that the message is non-personal, i.e., not directed to a particular individual. Advertising is communicated through various mass media, including traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, outdoor advertising or direct mail; and new media such as search results, blogs, social media, websites or text messages. The actual presentation of the message in a medium is referred to as an advertisement or "ad" for short.
Graphics
Graphics (from Greek γραφικός graphikos, "belonging to drawing") are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage it includes: a pictorial representation of data, as in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called computer graphics.
Advertising
It is never silent, it drowns out all other voices, and it suffers no rebuke, for is it not the voice of America? [...]
It has taught us how to live, what to be afraid of, how to be beautiful, how to be loved, how to be envied, how to be successful. ...
Is it any wonder that the American population tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms of this jabberwocky? That the stimuli of art, science, religion are progressively expelled to the periphery of American life to become marginal values, cultivated by marginal people on marginal time?
James Rorty, Our Master's Voice: Advertising (New York: John Day, 1934); pages 32-33, 70-72, 270.
Advertising
By saturating the public domain with false sincerity, advertising makes genuine sincerity more difficult.
Avner Offer, The Challenge of Affluence (2006), p. 359.
Advertising
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach, Letter (5/15/47) as quoted in Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Volume 2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (2016), p.190

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University
The founder of Katowice School of Technology is Arkadiusz Hołda. The school was founded following the decision of the Minister of National Education of 15th December, 2003 and entered in the register of private higher vocational schools (with the number 143). The aim of the school is to form a modern system of education for engineers whose qualifications meet European standards.

Katowice School of Technology is the first, private higher school in Silesia which offers Bachelor study programmes in the following specialisations:
  • Architecture
  • Interior Design
  • Civil Construction
  • Spatial Development
  • Design
  • Graphics
  • Directing
  • Journalism and Social Communication
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