Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Rarely is a poster more effective than live TV coverage, but Victore’s Racismadded a critical dimension to the event. If Victore ...

dedicated to performing Shakespeare in public spaces presumably as the Bard had originally intended. The payment involved was ne ...

hoped. It was too easy to work together because somebody had an idea, and everybody else said ‘Yes.’” Without more of an interna ...

has managed to avoid in his other work), but he argues that in this instance it is the most effective means for getting the poin ...

Ashcroft... You’re Next! Micah Wright You may think you’ve seen Micah Wright’s posters before, possibly in World War II history ...

never has.” Although it may appear easy to parody a kitsch image, Wright states, “It’s never enough to just start with a great p ...

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Jugend and Simplicissimus^53 In 1896 not one but two revolutionary periodicals were introduced in Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany.Jugen ...

( 1874 – 1968 ), whose woodcut-like brush-and-ink drawings were said to have influenced the German expressionists, and Eduard Th ...

PM and AD^55 The Composing Room of New York was no mere type shop. It was the vortex of progressive design activity from the lat ...

commercial priorities but nonetheless formed a solid foundation for the celebration and documentation of graphic design. In 1934 ...

work.” The magazine and gallery were symbiotic. Often a feature in one would lead to an exhibition in the other or vice versa. D ...

Picture Magazines of the 1930s Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ...

photographs. With new technology in place, innovation was inevitable. Soon sequences of integrated texts and images, designed to ...

was bitten by the camera bug, he devoted his life to photography. By force of will, tempered by an acute understanding of the so ...

Lorant was inspired by Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, yet he also understood that it had failed to use photographs as effective ...

Punch. After the war he emigrated to the United States, where he edited documentary picture books. During the late 1920 s and 19 ...

the magazine’s bias was alienating advertisers as France was turning more vociferously toward the right. Owing to diminishing ca ...