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Graphic Design

AN INTRODUCTION

What is it?

In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience." (Meggs)

Graphic Design

A VISUAL HISTORY

Early Design

Lascaux, France. circa 14000 B.C.E.

Early Design

Egyptian Hieroglyphics, date unknown

Early Design

Book of Kells, AD 800

Early Design

Gutenberg Bible 1450s

First text in western Europe that used movable type.

Reproduction now more economic and efficient

Enlightenment

Pamphlet, John Locke, 1734

Enlightenment

Declaration of Independence, 1776

Design as symbol of resistance

Industrial Revolution

Toulouse-Lautrec Poster late 1800s

The Dawn of Advertising

Industrial Revolution

Advertisement Late 1800s

Art Nouveau

Modern Design

DaDa-inspired poster 1920s

DaDa1920s-30s

Paris, GermanyNew York

Modern Design

Bauhaus Poster 1923

The Bauhaus Movement1919-1933

Mirrors Cubism and Constructivist movements in art world

Modern Design

Bauhaus Poster

The Bauhaus Movement1919-1933

Modern Design

Soviet Constructivist Design

Swiss Movement

Piet Mondrian

The influence of the Swiss

Swiss Movement

The influence of the Swiss

Swiss Movement

Helvetica Poster

The influence of the Swiss

Helvetica

Swiss Movement

VW Beetle Ad, 1950s

The influence of the Swiss

Swiss Movement

Magazine Cover, 1969

The influence of the Swiss

American Modernism

Logos

Paul Rand1914-1996

Book Cover

Paul Rand1914-1996

American Modernism

American Modernism

Album Cover

1960s & Pop Art

Milton Glaser

Post-Modernism

Magazine Cover

Tibor Kalman1949-1999

Post-Modernism

Magazine Cover

David Carson

Post-Modernism

Poster 1995

Paula Scher

Post-Modernism

Poster 1995

Stefan Sagmeister

Post-Modernism

Magazine Cover

Tibor Kalman1949-1999