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Learning Graphic Design History

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Focuses on the hows and whys of graphic design history, from Art Nouveau to new wave, detailing the development and evolution of specific styles, techniques, and genres.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. 1880-1912
  • Victorian advertising
  • American wood-type posters
  • La Belle Époque
  • Art Nouveau
  • Arts and Crafts
  • German posters
2. 1912-1930
  • World War I propaganda
  • The Soviet Revolution
  • European avant-garde
  • De Stijl
  • The Bauhaus: Part one
  • The Bauhaus: Part Two
  • New Typography
3. 1930-1950
  • The great age of posters
  • The American magazine
  • American modernism
  • World War II: Axis powers
  • World War II: Allied powers
4. 1950-1965
  • Post-war optimism
  • The fused metaphor
  • The New York School
  • Swiss typography
5. 1965-1975
  • American corporate identity
  • Protest
  • Fillmore
  • Typographic eclecticism
  • The golden age of album design
6. 1975-1990
  • Japanese design
  • Punk and new wave
  • Low-tech Seattle
  • Post-modernism
7. 1990-2014
  • Digital revolution
  • Minimalism
  • Vernacular
  • West Coast shift
8. Conclusion
  • Where next?

Taught by

Sean Adams

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