After joining IDC to study ‘Visual Communication’, the question "What do you actually do?" from fellow students in various disciplines often led to some tentative answers, but it was very evident from people's facial expressions that they didn’t understand. The realisation came that "visual communication’ has to be studied more deeply, hoping that in the future it will also lead to an understanding of the broader subject of design. The current project is an attempt to do a qualitative and quantitative analysis of around 700 VC projects done at IDC from 1984 to 2016. Considering the time available, this study focused more on developing a methodology that could later be expanded for a more comprehensive study.