home > HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN / HISTORY OF GRAPHIC ARTS

HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN : HISTORY OF GRAPHIC ARTS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

A Brief History of Type - It is difficult to cover all the developments and movements of typography in a short space. My separation of evolving technologies from the development of typefaces is an artificial one---designs and the technology used to create them are not truly separable---but perhaps it is conceptually useful.

ABC Typography - A virtual museum of Typography.

Graphic Designers from our Community

Book History - Time table of book design history

Design History Discussion List - Threads of the design history discussion list

The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors - This year marks the 350th anniversary of printing in what is now the United States. In the first century of that period the business of printing was in its infancy, confined to a handful of developing cities on the Atlantic seaboard and practiced by a small number of craftsmen. Even before the first century drew to a close in 1740, a historian, Thomas Prince, was attempting to collect the materials printed in the British colonies in North America.

Graphic Arts - The Senate maintains a collection of over 900 historical prints and engravings. This collection contains a rich array of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate.

Graphic Design Archive Online - 20th Century Editorial Online Design Archive

Graphic Design Timeline: 1975-1995 - Important Dates in the Last 20 Years of Design

History of Books and Printing - Chronological History of Books and Printing

History of Graphic Design - History of graphic design with Signs, Symbols and the orgins of Typography and The Graphic Revolution of the 19th Century

History of Graphic Design and Its Audience - To insist that, or to prescribe how, the history of graphic design need be taught in any particular way is to unnecessarily limit the field in both methodology and pedagogy. Since there is no consensus amongst historians of graphic design on what the history of graphic design is or what it should be, no scholar studying the subject should commit to any one way of researching, writing, and teaching.

History of Papermaking - The papermaking process has come a long way since 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese court official, invented paper. Paper as we know it today is what your are holding in your hand. In all likelihood, Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Thus began humanity's greatest revolution in communications.

Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation - History and timeline of graphics and animation.

Letterpress Printing in the 1960's - A compilation of information 'deciphered' from my old note books whilst an apprentice letterpress machinist at The Melbourne School of Printing & Graphic Arts, plus numerous old trade journals and books collected or 'borrowed' from employers over many years. I have had to exclude some drawings and diagrams of press settings and adjustments etc, due to their poor quality, but hope to rectify that problem some time soon!

Reading Design - My stomach dropped the first time I opened a copy of Warren Chappell’s A Short History of the Printed Word.

The Infancy of Printing - In 1639, Bernard von Mallinckordt of Munster Cathedral first associated the term "Incunabula" with books. The study of books printed during the first fifty years of printing illuminates the birth of the craft and the transition from the manuscript tradition to the print tradition.

Timeline for Graphic Design History - Design history, basic research theory, and the opportunity to experiment are essential for students to develop. The pressures of the workplace do not allow this higher development to occur on the job.

The Contributions to The History of Graphic Design PDF (1927-1942) - A thesis paper I found on the web, it might be useful to those looking for more abou the history of graphic design

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY ARCHIVES / HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS GRAPHIC DESIGN

Ad Classix - Vintage ads offer a fascinating glimpse of history and represent the archival documents of our consumer driven society. If you own a vintage or show vehicle, a print of its original publicity advertisement is the finishing touch to your investment.

American Sign Museum - The American Sign Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape.

Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room - 1934 - 1942 - An Important Historical Time In The Development Of American Graphic Design ... An MFA Thesis Project

Design Archive Online - Review twentieth century magazine design and photography with biographical profiles of designers. A project of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the image archives have limited access.

Fine Printing - Fine printing is a very broad subject, but my aim at this Web site is relatively modest: to bring together some basic information that may be of interest to those who are fascinated by beautiful books and their histories.

Follow The Sun Australian Travel Poster History - Archival History of Australian Travel Posters 19302-1950s

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - This is a virtual online gallery I've created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera.

History of Swiss Posters - The Swiss Poster Collection: 1970 to the Present

History of Postscript - PostScript now exists for almost 20 years. It has made a profound impact on the publishing industry and even today remains as important as it was when the first LaserWriter printer became available.

Italian Futurist Book - This is an online exhibition of Italian Futurist books, famous for their innovative uses of typography and graphic design, from the years 1909-1944.

Library of Congress Print Collections - Collections of prints

Medicine and Madison Avenue - This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed.

Media History Project - Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels

Metal Type - Metal Type is the place for Printers and Typesetters who remember the old days of Letterpress Printing to come and reminisce.

NY Public Library - The New York Public Library encompasses a specialized reference collection of over 15,000 volumes on the history of prints and printmakers; artist clipping files; and a collection of close to 200,000 original prints

Old Ads - Old advertisements from the 60's, 70's, and 80's

Posters American Style - At the present time, poster art is in a period of renaissance. Posters have come to be regarded as mysterious cultural objects, whose flatness and literalness only deepen their resonance, as well as inexhaustibly rich emblems of the society. . . . Posters have become one of the most ubiquitous kinds of cultural objects—prized partly because they are cheap, unpretentious, "popular" art

Posters American Style - View major posters from the last century. Learn about their design, printing and historical impact on culture. Includes audio. Collection by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Swiss Posters - Take a look through The Carnegie Mellon University's Swiss Poster Collection exhibit

The Art of Poster - Contains 5000 images and descriptions of posters.

The Art of Persuasion - The history of American advertising in the early part of this century (and graphic design history more generally) is crucially in need of serious study. Only in the past fifteen years has this area of American history received any real scrutiny at all, and this has been scant.

University of Florida Rare Book Collections - The pages below are drawn from the holdings in the rare book section of the Dept. of Special Collections. They are to give you some idea as to what we have that can be used in the study of the history of typography and book design. The images of the printed material can be quite large; all sizes are given below the thumbnail.

World of Spectrum - The official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the largest on-line gaming center on the Internet

Recent Articles from All Graphic Design Blog

6 Oct 2008 at 1:21pm
Web Based Image Editors - Online Photoshop Alternatives for Image Editing
With Adobe recently launching their online version of Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop Express - you might be wondering if there are other quality image editors online. You don't have to wonder anymore. We have put together a list of more than 30 web-based picture editors that are great alternatives to Photoshop Express. I am not saying that any of these online image editing tools are better than Photoshop Express, but they are all quality tools that can be used to create great image effects.

---

30 Sep 2008 at 2:54pm
Freelance Graphic Design Jobs and Web Design Jobs - We?re Rolling in Them
We have set up a script to take the freelance design jobs from dozens of freelance sites, graphic design forums, web design forums, job boards, and graphic design job sites. This script is set to automatically update this job board several times a day so you can be assured that you are looking at regularly updated freelance graphic design and web design projects on this aggregator.

---

25 Sep 2008 at 8:41pm
Fonts FAQ - Answers To Your Questions About Fonts
I get questions about fonts all the time and I wanted to write a post that would help many of you. Today I am answering many questions about fonts that will help you in your daily graphic design tasks.

---

20 Sep 2008 at 2:41pm
Productivity Tools for Efficient Graphic Designers to Automate Design Process
You will find that a lot of these tools can automate your graphic design process by actually doing the tedious repetitive tasks that slow you down. There are a ton of tools listed here, so make sure to bookmark this page.

---

11 Sep 2008 at 10:45am
Logo Design Process of Inspirational Graphic Designer Jon Sandruck
Logo Design Process of Inspirational Graphic Designer Jon Sandruck Do you want to learn about the logo design process from a logo designer who is going to have two of his logos to be included in the inspirational Logo Lounge 5? Then please welcome the very talented Jon Sandruck. Today Jon Sandruck is going to detail [...]

---

8 Sep 2008 at 12:15pm
Most Unique / Silly Shopping Bags Ever Designed - Inspirational Graphic Design
I have collected more than a dozen of the coolest shopping bags that I have ever seen. The creativity that was put into designing these bags could be put towards any graphic design project, and is not only limited to shopping bag design. These graphic designers thought outside the box (or bag in this situation) and I would love to have you submit some designs that you think showcase the same creative thinking (designing).

---

2 Sep 2008 at 9:23pm
Collection of Free Photoshop Pattern Sites - Start Downloading Those Patterns
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.

---

1 Sep 2008 at 11:05am
Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.

---

30 Aug 2008 at 8:48pm
A Roundup of the Best Photoshop Logo Design Tutorials Online
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.

---

28 Aug 2008 at 11:37am
Best Cool, Clever & Unique Billboards and Outdoor Advertising Part II
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.

---

All Graphic Design Resources is a Directory Full of Tools for Graphic Designers

All Graphic Design Portal is a Graphic Design education directory with resources & articles for Graphic Designers & Web Designers including a Design forum, blog, graphics software tips, graphic design jobs, advice for new designers about design schools and education as well as tips for freelance graphic design business owners, and much more.