Author: Asst. Prof. Yasemin ERENGEZGİN KAFKAS,

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Design Department/ Istanbul/ Turkey

yerengezgin@yahoo.com, +905054962729

This work aims to analyse the role and importance of the Arts relevant courses, concentrating on Drawing lessons, in the light of evolving technology and new expectations in the Graphic Design education era.

First of all, the article will briefly focus on the relationship between art and design area. Then, the topics such as the possible contributions of art and drawing classes in education and the link between art, culture and a good design will be covered.

In the next section, the old fashioned Graphic Design education methods and new approaches will be compared. The relation between creativity and knowledge, necessity of hand drawing while creating designs and the question about the competency of computer design programmes will be discussed. The discussion will be exemplified through comparison of Graphic Design curriculums from different higher education institutions.

Another important question attempted to answer here will be, to what extent the computer programmes an instrument of abstract design or the execution process are.

The expectations and demands of the students will be examined in context of previous discussions.

The final objective of the paper is to show that manuel drawing skills and art culture knowledge are still valuable achievements for a graphic design student. Therefore, the work will end with thoughts and demonstrations about convincing them to notice and properly learn these skills.