Alexandra Contreras - History of Graphic Design

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19171 93 1

t S i j e l D Style: Simplification Grid and Rules Primary Colors Tightly Contained Creativity Heightened Sense of Control

Key Figures: Theo van Doesburg Piet Mondrian Vilmos Huszรกr Bart Van Der Leck

Typography: Imaginary Grid Baseline Content Size = Emphasis DeStijl Journal


1919193

h a u u a s b Style: Flat Color Gesamtkunstwerk Industrial Aesthetic Post WWI Germany Reductive/Geometric Feeling of Absolute Dissilution

Key Figures: Josef Albers Johannes Itten Jan Tschichold Walter Dexel Herbert Bayer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Typography: The New Typography Sans-Serif Minimalist *Futura

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1934

-194 4

D e c t o r A Style: Lively, Bright Colors Sensual Shapes Humanist Type Emphasized Photos/Illustrations Celebrated Machine Aesthetic

Key Figures: Mehemed Agha Cipe Pineles Lester Beall Norman Rockwell

Typography: Clean Text Manipulation Consice Use of Type Slanted or Curved Type *Pinot *Bifur *American Broadway


1945 -196 0

t a i n o r n e al t In Style

Style: Commercial Design Focused on Client Gesamtkunstwerk Assymetrical Clean and Simple

Key Figures: Josef Muller-Brockman Armin Hoffman Ivan Chermayer Paul Rand Saul Bass Alvin Lustig

Typography: Minimal Text Sans-Serif Grid Text Set FL/RR Readability Focus


1934 -194 4

EMPOR AR T N Y CO Style: Reductive/Horror Vacui/Anything Goes Graffiti, Comics Referencing Popular Culture Struggle for Unique Voice New Medium: Motion Graphics

Key Figures: David Carson Art Chantry Chip Kidd Jonathan Barnbrook David Goines Kyle Cooper

Typography: Grunge Typography Varying Legibility Art Graffiti

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