I worry a bit about the first sentence in your statement. It keeps throwing me off in many ways. At first I thought that maybe you should rethink it, that it might be read as sort of a clueless thing to say about graphic design, that if you didn't know design was about communication then what did you think it was about? Then I thought, well I guess it depends on your audience, who is reading this statement. A lay-person wouldn't find it odd to say this, but a designer might. I was going to suggest that you take out "I have come to realize, in the process of becoming a graphic designer," and have it read something like, "Design is married to communication." I see that it is a statement that is supposed to set up a context for the rest of the paragraph, but it's not quite working.

Then I thought that it's something else, it's that the term "communication" is just very broad. I wanted to be a designer since high school and 10 years later I'm thinking back to what it meant to me, what a designer was. Back then and even as an early undergrad, I'm not sure that I would have used the word "communication" specifically, but I would have known that it was about that.

So in saying all that, I think that you probably were aware of the fact that graphic design was somehow tied to communicating, through color, font choices, layout, etc. But that now you see that there is a new type of communication going on, a change through technology and one that you want to explore and use now and in the future. So maybe you should say a bit about what type of communication you thought it was before you came to the realization of what type of communication you think graphic design is now.

I don't know, I can get really, really wordy and stuff about this sort of thing. As a grad student I probably spent like a year finicking with my statement and finally finding the right thing to say, then of course writing a 20 page document explaining in detail. It helped to have 2 professors constantly wanting me to explain each sentence hehe, so I guess that is where I get it from. I'll give you a link to my Master's Report and you can see in the "abstract" portion what I ended up printing in our catalogue for the show.

www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/design/graduate_program/gradsite/may_2008/selina_silvas/report.pdf

Also, take my advice with a grain of salt hehe, and hopefully I don't sound like a HUGE asshole. I have and still continue to struggle with communication and one of my biggest hang-ups is "do people understand what I'm trying to say" and I end up talking A TON