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If you're new to the whole "form and content" thing then it's probably still a very sketchy thing. I can say the following no better than Paul Rand himself, All art is relationships, all art. That is how you have to begin. That is where you begin. Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.
Understanding design, form, content through relationships is fundamental.
If we adapt the ideas on form and content that we have now in terms of media, i.e. Marshall McLuhan's perspective, we'll get a much more sophisticated, precise, modern definition of design. Now we have form as both, a containing medium, and the designer's overall problem. Content is now the concept we're trying to portray, as well as another medium within itself.
Design is the simplified reconciliation of form and content in consideration of many of its associated things. Graphics design is a visual simplification, whereas writing would be a literary simplification. The depth of relations goes deeper when approaching web design. (Web designers will have a blast taking this site apart!)
It's all relative.
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