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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 14 - The Mayan, Aztecs, Incas, and the Aboriginal Canadian Art

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Chapter 14 - The Mayan, Aztecs, Incas, and the Aboriginal Canadian Art. The ancient Olmec Civilization. Graphic Design in the Aztec Civilization. Graphic Design in Inca Civilization. The Art of the Aboriginal Nations of Canada. Konankada; the Chief of the Undersea World. The Kaminaljuyú clay figurine from the Middle to late Preclassic (1500 BC - 150 AD). (Kaminal Juyú from the Ki´ché words meaning “hills of the dead." ). The ancient Olmec Civilization. Kinich Ahau was the Sun god, and the patron god of t...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 33 Pop Art

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Chapter 33 Pop Art. Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans 1962, Medium Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, MoMA. Piero Manzoni. Artist's Shit No. 014. May 1961, MoMA. White Painting (Three Panels), 1951, Robert Rauschenberg. Ichtenstein pulled the comics into a new paradigm, changing them from a humdrum existence with limited audience into a thought provoking art form where panels juxtaposed print, advertising and more to create a conceptual work for a more sophisticated audiences. His work s...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 42; The Swiss Grid System -- and the Dutch Total Grid

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Chapter 42; The Swiss Grid System - and the Dutch Total Grid. Wim Crouwel and the Dutch Total Grid. Lella Valle Massimo Vignelli. The Revival of Swiss Grid System in the Cyberspace. In short, the visual characteristics of the International Typographic Style include:. Asymmetrically organizing the design elements on a mathematically-constructed grid to create Visual unity in a composition. Design is a socially worthwhile and serious vocation. The designer is a visual communicator and not an artist. Th...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 35 - Grafitti and Street Art

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Chapter 35 - Grafitti and Street Art. The rise of graffiti as an art form. Becoming part of the profit making art establishment. Advertising for multinational corporations. BLU, the Italian Street Artist. Street Art in Berlin. Bombing of Berlin's train stations by One United Power - aka 1UP. El Bocho; The observed observer. Please come back Linda! MTO, Portrait of a great humanist. Banksy and Mr Brainwash: publicity stunts, and commercial successes. Jade Uno: A graffiti and street-art artist from Peru.

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 37 - the Polish School and the Polish Art of Opera, Film and Circus Posters

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Chapter 37 - the Polish School and the Polish Art of Opera, Film and Circus Posters. The Emergence Polish Graphic Design - Late 19th Century until the WWI. Polish posters between the two wars. The Re-emergence of the Polish Opera, Film, and Circus Posters after WWII. The post-communist era's attempts for a revival. Leszek Zebrowski, Carmen - Bizet, 2009. The Emergence Polish Graphic Design - Late 19th Century until the WWI. Za naszą i waszą wolność. Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869 - 1907), Caritas (Love), 1904.

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 38 - Saul Bass, and the Art of Film Title Sequence & Film Poster

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Chapter 38 - Saul Bass, and the Art of Film Title Sequence and Film Poster. Aul Bass was born in the Bronx district of New York in 1920. His strong passion for drawing was evident from his early childhood. Bass studied at the Art Students League in New York and Brooklyn College under Gyorgy Kepes, a Hungarian graphic designer who had worked with László Moholy-Nagy in 1930s Berlin and fled with him to the US. Kepes introduced Bass to Moholy’s Bauhaus style and to Russian Constructivism. Bass produced a st...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 32 - Pioneers of Advertisement Posters

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Chapter 32 - Pioneers of Advertisement Posters. Emergence of 'mass production', and 'homogeneous consumer'. Advertisement for a 'segmented society'. Modern Layouts, and Alexey Brodovitch. Dr Mehemed Fehmy Agha: Redefining the role of 'Art Director' in advertisement. Henry Wolf; a thought provoking sense of style. Otto Storch: Inventing Visual Distortions. Quentin Fiore: The Medium is the Message (or the Massage? 8217; – an employment office for the jobless, which soon became the information center ...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 36 - Art of Posters for Films - the Cuban School

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Chapter 36 - Art of Posters for Films - the Cuban School. Antonio Perez - Ñiko. He Cuban school of Film posters started after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, with the pioneering works of gaphic designers such as, Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, Antonio Perez known as Ñiko, Antonio Fernández Reiboro, René Azcuy Cardenas, and Raul Martinez Gonzales among others. The most important impetus came from the establishment of El Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos. Cría cuervos , 1976. The most prolific ICAIC.

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 41. A History of the Comic Strips and the Underground Comix

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Chapter 41. A History of the Comic Strips and the Underground Comix. To construct a picture-story does not mean you must set yourself up as a master craftsman, to draw out every potential from your material — often down to the dregs! Nevertheless, the origin of the comics, an icon of American culture, could be traced back to the comic strip which appeared by the end of the nineteenth century. In 1892, James Swinnerton published the very first newspaper comic strip, The Little Bears and Tigers,. Which had...

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A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 27 - Gustav Klimt, and the Vienna Secession Movement

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Chapter 27 - Gustav Klimt, and the Vienna Secession Movement. Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918). Koloman (Kolo) Moser (1868-1918). Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) and the Hagenbund Rebellion. Heinrich Lefler’s illustrations in Die Bücher der Chronika der drei Schwestern (Book of Chronicles of the Three Sisters), 1900. Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918). The Tree of Life, 1909. Avenue in the Park of Krammer Castle, 1912. Koloman (Kolo) Moser (1868-1918). Secessionist exhibition poster, 1902. Vienna Workshops Poster, 1905.