John M Garrison - Photographer and Pundit

Design history journal

This is a journal I made to illustrate various periods in Graphic Design History.

Style Guide

This table lists representative style characteristics and authors for each of the featured periods in graphic design. It also lists sources for the images used in the collage layouts.

Bibliography
Design Period	Style Elements	Artists	Sources
Victorian	Chromolithography Naturalistic renderings Decorative type Lots of ornament Ephemera	Charles Dana Gibson Louis Prang Randolph Caldecott	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://vintageprintable.com/ http://writeonandmore.files.wordpress.com/ http://erlutearmoniabenesseas.blogspot.com/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org
Arts and Crafts	Stylized natural forms [leaves, flowers] Horror vacuii [crowding of design elements in the field] Historicism [use of past styles, especially medieval figures] Private press movement [books]	Walter Crane Arthur Mackmurdo William Morris	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ http://bestoflegends.org/ http://www.wallwords.com/
ukiyo-e	Floating objects in a floating world Sense that we are frozen in time Japanese themes[such as geisha girls/kabuki theatre/nature: result of isolationism] Wood cuts	Hishikawa Moronobu Kitagawa Utmaro Ando Hiroshige	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
Art Nouveau	Stylized natural forms [flowers, birds] Whiplash curve [bimorphic lines, curvilinear] Exotic females [removed from contemporary time and place]	Alphonse Mucha Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Privat-Livemont	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://www.leninimports.com/ http://popartmachine.com/
Vienna Secession	Elongated figures and typography Tall, thin compositions Hand-drawn, stylized type	Beter Behrens Josef Hoffman Alfred Roller Kooman Moser	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/ http://www.szecesszio.com/
Cubism	Monochromatic palette [analytical cubism] Faceting of surfaces Geometric shapes Simultaneity [the subject is viewed from several angles at once, the subject remains stationary and the viewer moves]	Georges Braque Pablo Picasso Juan Gris	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://www.ibiblio.org/ http://www.artchive.com/
Futurism	Poetry Free typography Onomatopoeia [use of words whose sounds suggests a sense/emotion] Simultaneity In graphic works, letters suggest sounds from different sources heard at once In figurative works, the viewer remains stationary and the subject moves, the subject is represented in multiple positions at once Graphic Illustrations Geometric patterns Onomatopoeia [use of words whose sounds suggests a sense/emotion] Machine aesthetic [automatons, or elements suggesting industry]	Filippo Marinetti Fortunato Depero Antonio Sant'Elia	http://j-warburton1013-cts.blogspot.com/ http://dome.mit.edu http://ilpatastorico.blogspot.com/ http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/ http://heislenny.blogspot.com/ http://johnyatesdandad.blogspot.com/
Dada	Ready made materials Photomontage Absurdity, humor & social criticism	Hannah Höch Marcel Duchamp John Heartfield	http://wideeyeddreaming.blogspot.com/ http://dadasurr.blogspot.com/ http://dadasurr.blogspot.com/ http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/ http://disphotic.wordpress.com/ http://aparadeofone.files.wordpress.com
Expressionism	Bold contour drawing Woodcuts Deep sense of social crisis Empathy for the poor Thick paint Exaggerated distorted color, drawing and proportions	Pau Klee Henry Matisse Wassily Kandinsky	http://cep818.wikispaces.com/ http://www.blog.lilyofthevalley.se/ http://www.ibiblio.org/
Surrealism	Dream imagery Personal symbolism Illogical juxtapositions of elements	Salvador Dali René Magritte Max Ernst	http://www.fotopedia.com/ http://www.freakingnews.com/ http://www.antiquity.tv http://www.wikipaintings.org/
Photography and the Modern Movement	Concern for point, line, plane, shape and texture Multiple exposures, pure form and distortion Solarization and experimental techniques	Man Ray Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Francis Brugiere	http://www.meagan-marie.com/ http://bookmebookblog.wordpress.com/ http://www.britannica.com
Plakatstil (Pictorial Modernism)	Flat background color Dominant stylized image Name of product	Hans Rudi Erdt Lucien Bernhard The Beggarstaffs	http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/ http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/ http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/
Art Deco	Zig-zag line Geometric shapes Machine aesthetic [streamline, converging lines Eclecticism International motifs [Assyrian, American Indian, Greek]	Joseph Binder A. M. Cassandre E. McKnight Kaugger	http://www.dieselpunks.org/ http://www.ebay.com/ http://boothbylund.wordpress.com/
Suprematism Constructivism	Non-representational Pure colors Basic geometric shapes Lettering looks Soviet influenced Often uses red and black on beige colored background Geometric shapes Asymmetr Diagonal lines Lettering looks Soviet influenced Often uses red and black on a beige colored background	El Lissitzky Alexander Roachenko Kasimir Malevich	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://fideles86.deviantart.com/ http://armindaborges.wordpress.com/
De Stijl	Asymmetry Primary colors with neutrals [black, white and gray] Perpendicular lines	Piet Mondrian Bart van der Leck Theo van Doesburg	http://www.oilpainting-frame.com/ http://skelemitz.wordpress.com/ http://blanchardmodernart.blogspot.com/
Bauhaus	Sans serif asymmetrical type-New Typography Deliver message and communicate Function not decoration Purity, clarity, simplicity New approaches to photography[Extreme scale contrasts/bird’s eye/worm’s eye ] Montage	Oscar Schlemmer Joost Schmidt Laszlo Moholy-Nagy	http://malessaarchitekten.loretto24.de/ http://ilovebreda.unblog.fr/ http://www.imgspark.com/
New Typography	Asymmetrical, flush left ragged right Priority assigned to text based on weight and size Purpose of communication is to function not decorate Type used in simple form without embellishment Rules should be used for emphasis	Eic Gill Jan Tshichold Piet Zwart	http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ http://www.typotheque.com/ http://london-underground.blogspot.com/ http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/
Modern Movement in America	Bauhaus influence - American content WPA typography for social programs	Joseph Binder Lester Beall Herbert Bayer	http://www.houseofbokeh.com/ http://www.rit.edu/ http://www.fulltable.com/
The International Typographic Style	Asymmetry Flush left/ragged right layouts Sans serif letters with bold words for emphasis Reductive, objectivity, no superfluous decoration Grid systems	Adrian Frutiger Joserf Muller-Brockermann Hermann Zapf	http://design365.wordpress.com/ http://www.typotheque.com/ http://www.designishistory.com/
New York School	Uniquely American approach with origins in European modernism Playful, visually dynamic and unexpected Analyze communications content-reduce to symbolic essence Use of shape Asymmetrical balance	Peter Palazzo Bradbury Thompson Otto Storch	http://www.myspace.com/ http://westread.blogspot.com/ http://popartmachine.com/ http://myturtleneck.blogspot.com/ http://library.rit.edu/
Corporate Identity	Logotypes and identities Pictograph signage for Olympics and transportation	Paul Rand Lester Beall Saul Bas	http://www.themodernist.co.uk/ http://jcon23.blogspot.com/ http://olympic-museum.de/
Conceptual Image	Narrative information communicated with ideas and concepts Familiar in an unfamiliar setting Scale changes, substitution, visual puns and play	Armando Testa Milton Glaser Arnold Vega	http://www.cartype.com/ http://graphicnothing.blogspot.com/ http://www.liveauctioneers.com/ http://webposters.adm.ntu.edu.sg/
Digital Revolution	Computer generated imagery Internet, interactive design and the worldwide web	Alejandro Magallanes Luis Almeida Herrera Michael Beirut	http://kurosama-76.deviantart.com/ http://archive.reidab.com/ http://pentagram.com/ http://constructive9.wordpress.com/
Post Modern Design	Deconstruction Broke with international typographic style communications Intuitive Communicated emotional qualities with expressive typography Layering/overlapping Uses computers to generate layouts and typography New Wave Stair stepped rules Some evidence of grid underlying organization Layering, overlapping [simultaneity] Retro/Vernacular Eclectic modernist European design of first half of century Disrespect for proper rules of typography [placed in new ways] Kinky mannered type of 20s/30s	Rosmarie Tissi Dan Friedman Arnold Vega Michael Manwaring	http://www.thenewgraphic.com/2 http://users.design.ucla.edu/ http://www.creativereview.co.uk/ http://dave.lab6.com/

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