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| Up until these last few decades, business drawing had to be kept to a minimum. Drawing projects were time consuming, required extensive planning and once created, could not be altered. The best alternative was clipping images from magazines, arranging and pasting them on paper for copying. Hence the name ‘clip art' was applied to these projects. Often these lacked an air of real professionalism that the much more expensive artist created drawing had. Only the largest companies had polished art. |
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| Then the computer art program began to make inroads in the business world. Requiring a skilled artist who now also had to be a programmer, the business art field was still expensive and time consuming. However there were some advantages over the hand drawn art. Primarily, changes could be made without having to scrap the entire original work. Slowly the software became more sophisticated. The business artist no longer had to know programming, but still had to have good art skills and some computer skill. |
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| The development of desktop publishing along with the continuing refinement of art software brought a small revolution to the business art world. People with little art skill could now make decent business drawings and incorporate them into documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Computer clip art made sure that even those lacking in any art skill could put together a montage of art clips and text to create a professional looking business document. However there was still one thing missing. |
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| Unlike spreadsheets and databases, art programs didn't connect the objects drawn with other types of data. The drawing of a chair produced by a manufacturer did not have any program-related link to its cost factors, production time, construction materials or its current inventory, until Visio. Combining data with shapes was just one of Visio's revolutionary features that made it an instant business success. Resulting in a new form of business art that combines spreadsheet functions with clip art ease. |
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