Friday, 9 October 2015

Spencer lecture: 9th October

History of Graphic design


Tony fry- History is selective, History is affective
Book: Graphic design, a new history. 
Meggs history of design (1985) the first time in history that history and graphic design were used together. He says that heart of graphic design is the namely commercial reason for being. 
Illuminated manuscript Manuscripts decorated with gold/silver light, religion, technology AD 500- AD- 1000
Evolution of type and printing ( Remember, this is both a technological and aesthetic history. 
Jan tschichold: New Typography (1924)

Stephen Eskilson: Graphic design, a new history “Graphic design has too long been presented through a parade of styles and individual achievements”

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