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