With the advent of the computer, traditional techniques have been combined with technology to create a new form of art, digital media. Some people believe that it has replaced the traditional methods by prematurely working on the computer to generate their initial ideas, without fully developing them on paper first.
    Digital media is being widely accepted in the art world today and technology is placed side-by-side with art. The American Institute of Graphic Arts defines graphic design as 'a creative process that combines art and technology in order to communicate ideas'. But there are still those artists that were raised in the artistic tradition before the advent of computers, where the advances of technology is not seen as positive.