Graphic Design: A History The boom in mass media production was not followed by a complimentary expansion into the design profession. In this reading, Chapter 1: The Nineteenth Century – The Advent of Graphic Design, Eskilson explains that the many anonymous jobbers of the 19th Century were not exactly ‘designers’ as their work was primarily…
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Week 2: Lecture and Tutorial
The lecture covered design history starting with the Guttenberg Press which was established in 1456. How it impacted society and aided an illiterate population due to being capable of the mass production of the written word when prior to that, becoming literate was reserved for certain classes of society. This is when thought was put…
Lascaux Cave Paintings. Art or Design?
How do we decide to categorize something as either art or design? This was an interesting topic raised in the week 1 lecture that I thought about for a long time. When you break it down you start to see that cave paintings in general have aspects of both art and design. What is graphic…
Week 1: Trivial Comments
Great start to a new semester. Feeling inspired. I have a few ideas for assignments and projects swirling around in my head, however, I’ll expand on those in posts to come. I am mostly just focusing on my schedule and and trying to instigate a sense of routine again after half a year away from…
A Designer's Duty 