Presenter: Jacob Norwood
What is Graphic Design?
Graphic Design is collection of typography, illustrations, and photography organized to communicate a message, usually in a client/designer relationship.
Design History and Movements – Past 100 Years
- Pre Modern Design – 1600-1930’s
- Illustrative, Hand Made, Artist created
- Toulouse Lautrec
- Artist and Graphic Artist (Poster Design) Artist and Designer blur.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Toulouse-Lautrec_-_Moulin_Rouge_-_La_Goulue.jpg
War Posters - Propaganda on Flickr
- Modern Design - 1930’s to Present
- Photographic, Clean, Strait lines, Grids, Simplistic
- Swiss Graphic Design
- German Modern Design
- Bauhaus Design
- an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933. the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.
- Post-Modern Design 1960-Present
- Broad Design aesthetic – Backlash to the modern design movement – No More Rules
Current Web Design Examples within Design Aesthetics
- Modern Design with Web 2.0
- Post Modern Design
Design Techniques
The Grid
The use of a grid originated during the modern design period. The grid is used to position objects in a space symmetrically or asymmetrically in a visually pleasing way.
- http://tutorialblog.org/grid-systems-in-web-design/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_(page_layout)
- http://www.mastertemplates.com/free-templates.htm
Typography
Typography is one of the most important and expressive mediums in design, and the most neglected.
Web Design
People like to separate web and print design. I think they are the same with different technical details.
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