Learning Graphic Design History

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.

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?