Abstract:
Visual communication design connotes the use of graphics packages in enhancing the communication and production or advertisement of goods and services to the public. This paper has tried to trace the historical development of Visual Communication Design practice in Eastern Nigeria. It has explained the meaning of graphics design in visual communication design practice in particular. Also the visual communication artists and their works as well as the pioneers of graphics design in Eastern Nigeria were located and discussed. The works of these pioneers and their values to the contemporary society are quite evident,C considering the importance and usefulness of their description to the historical development of a nation.Graphics artist all over the world have been engaged in solving and clarifying difficult intellectual, often abstract, problems. This is in part, the result of globalization; the revolution in multimedia and information technology that fosters the rapid transmission of complex data. Historically speaking, its socioeconomic and psychological effect and influence have also led to the development of notable global and national achievements through the pioneers of this profession.
