Graphic design

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design and of the fine arts. Its practice involves creativity, innovation and lateral thinking using manual or digital tools, where it is usual to use text and graphics to communicate visually.
— Wikipedia

Here good examples of graphic design, from popchart.

A Stylistic Survey of Graphic Design.

An array of aesthetic advancement, this rigorously researched and hand-illustrated diagram documents the progression of Graphic Design from the Victorian era into the modern digital age.
— popchart

A Stylistic Survey of Graphic Design

Another example, The ABC Of Design.

What are the ABCs of design? More specifically, what are the elements that every visual design has in common? All that will be answered.
— Designmatic

The ABC Of Design