can illustration be considered graphic design?

[yoyoH2O]

when is an illustration considered graphic design and not just art? could someone please show me an example?

[PrintDriver]

Homework question?

check out old circus posters or any vintage poster for that matter. Most were illustrated with the illustration being the design.

[Broacher]

Yes. When? Lots of times. Example? It's a tattoo, and well... you'd have to be here to see it.

Actually, you'd have to be here on your knees (but that's another story).

[carter the artist]

pretty much anytime an illustration is used in a layout, it's graphic design. which means most any layout of a banner, magazine article, business collatoral, etc... with an illustration is your example.

(WHat is up with the illustration vs. graphic design discussions this weekend?)

[Drawing a Blank]

when is an illustration considered graphic design and not just art? could someone please show me an example?

When an illustration fulfills the goals of graphic design it is a graphic design, when it does not fulfill those principles and goals it isn't.
When an illustration is not a graphic design it may not be "just art" either such as technical illustration. <<Disclaimer; I do a great deal of technical illustration and am not trying to belittle it in any way by saying it is not art. I have a degree in art and know that good technical illustration takes skill, but I do not consider it "art" in the classic sense.>>

[Broacher]

Oxygen and hydrogen are gases at room temperature. Therefore water (H20) is a gas at room temperature.

Composition is one of Aristotle's 13 fallacies.