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Sunday 7 December 2008

History of graphic design



The phrase graphic design is thought to be in a debate because it was said Richard Guyatt a British designer was the first to create the term “graphic design” but then other sources say William Addison Dwiggins an American book designer in the early 20th century was the person who invented the term “graphic design”.
This been said in the early London Underground scene the modern era of graphics specially fonts was designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.
Graphic design really took off in the 1920s with the constructivism development, this saw artistic designs like buildings, theater sets, posters, fabrics, clothing, furniture, logos, menus etc.
A designer called Jan Tschichold laid down the principles of modern typography in his 1928 book ‘New Typography’. He repeatedly talked about his philosophy, in his book he described it as being fascistic, saying that it was still influential.
Tschichold and the Bauhaus typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Lazszlo Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky are the masterminds of graphic design it is heavily suggested, as we know today. These are the people who pioneered and created production methods and techniques and stylistic materials throughout the twentieth century.
The coming years so graphic design in modern style growing and expanding wide, the coming of world war 2 saw production for advertising and packaging in the American economy.
The relocation of the German Bauhaus School of design to Chicago in 1937 paved the way for massive production of “modern” architecture and design.
Recognizable names in mid century modern design include Adrain Fruiger, designer of typefaces ‘Univers’ and ‘Frutiger’, Paul Rand was active from the late 1930s until his death in 1996 applied the principles of the Bauhaus when designing popular advertising logos. He helped to create a different and unique American approach to European methods all this while pioneering the subset of graphic design better known as corporate identity. With the help of Josef MullerBrockmann they designed posters in a creative and visual way in between the 1950s and 60s era.
This is how graphic design grew and this is what makes or expresses how people see it to be, a form of art?.....

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