Graphic design history
Tony fry:
- history is selective
- history is affective
Meggs history of graphic design (1985)
- first time the words 'history' and 'graphic design' were used together
Steven Heller
- wrote about eggs work - ambitious
Invention of mark making, writing, printing
cave paintings - documenting
theses are a king of graphic design, they almost look like prints.
they are part of the environment/
hittite cylinder seal - precursor to print image on side, image on base for standing (1650 - 1200 BC)
graphic design can get inside a culture
peter Behrens - new objectivity (1901) sans-serif geometric
avant garde
modernism vs post
classicism
grunge
