Graphic Design Lecture

A Medium for the Masses.

• Visual communication around for 1000's of year apparent from cave paintings.
• William Addison Dwiggins. just adding text into painting is the earliest usage of Graphic Design.
• Recording changes in society
• Alphonse Mucha Advertisings 1890 early adverts for cigarette papers. is it fine art?
• Motivational War Posters Uncle Sam
• After the first world war the way graphic design was used changed.

• Graphic Design is not just trying to sell things it is also trying to help society
• English design conformed to traditional styles
• 1921-2 the london underground map FH Stingemore.
• 1933 Harry Beck London underground map.
• Swiss design was very cutting edge
• 1933 Hitler shuts dow the Bauhaus. didn't portray traditional ways of thinking which he didn't like. He put of a modern art exhibition just to show how bad it was.
• Joseph Renaw Spanish.
• Graphic design was an underground movement / cutting and pasting
• New Commercial nature of graphic design Paul Rand. Think small VW campaign good use of negative space.
• FHK Henrion. stop nuclear suicide poster 1960
• Music of hippies.
• Julian House Primal scream album.
• Blue monday
• Neville Brody Face magazine covers communicate a message.
• David Carson's Ray gun Magazine