Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Japanese Movie Tickets Design is a religion for the Japanese. Even the most everyday objects are imbued with elegance. Economy i ...

and shops, and designers who worked for them, found theoretical guidance and practical models. In addition to examples of orthod ...

ticket printer in Tokyo developed the idea and sold space to advertisers, thus developing two sources of income. Japanese movie ...

The Great Gargantua and Pantagruel^367 W. A. Dwiggins An admirer said of William Addison Dwiggins ( 1880 – 1956 ): “There are fe ...

his virtuosity. In this book Dwiggins wed respect for tradition with passion for the new. In Dwiggins’s work, the classics serve ...

state of mind... a natural and wholesome reaction against an overdose of traditionalism,” he wrote. “The graphic results of this ...

Vanity Fair and Fortune Covers Paolo Garretto Paolo Garretto ( 1903 – 1983 ) was a prolific cartoonist, caricaturist, and poster ...

decorative work was so well crafted that he eschewed these pigeonholes. Writing in a 1946 issue of Graphis, Orio Vergani describ ...

At age twenty-two Garretto received steady work from Dorland, Europe’s largest advertising agency. His work was published regula ...

Artone^373 Seymour Chwast The curvilinear style known as art nouveau in France and Jugendstil in Germany was revived by Push Pin ...

again,” Chwast recalled. Glaser’s proposals are lost and his ideas forgotten, but Chwast recalled doing a few variants on his be ...

specifically, and Chwast generally, as influencing his own distinctive style of design. Chwast used the upper- and lowercase alp ...

The Lover Louise Fili According to marketing wisdom, the book jacket designed by Louise Fili (b. 1951 ) for The Lover by Marguer ...

Since the 1960 s, consolidations and takeovers in the book publishing industry have increased competition for shelf space and pu ...

printing manuals and saved even just a few letters from old books or posters if they caught her eye. When it came time to design ...

French Paper^379 Charles Spencer Anderson Some call the current trend in revivalist design postmodern, vernacular, or retro; Cha ...

Although Anderson did not set out to be a counter-revolutionary, he discovered the graphic integrity woven into the crude innoce ...

Through the flagship CSA Archive Catalog of Stock Art, Anderson has both reintroduced and laid claim to many of the forgotten ar ...

Propaganda Art Chantry When Art Chantry (b. 1954 ) started designing posters in the late 1970 s, a time when corporate design bu ...

them he did not merely sanctify these lost artifacts of popular culture; he recycled them as functional graphic designs. The cru ...