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Graphic Design History

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Download and read the following PDF: Graphic Design History / Chapter 2.

Make note of the various visual styles and movements in this history. Which styles do you respond to? How is the world of graphic design today informed by yesterday? What similarities and differences can you identify in the way graphic design functions? What makes a work of graphic design great?

List of Designers from the twentieth century.
You have been assigned one of these designers to explore in an email. Research this designer and their work.

Peter Behrens
Lucien Bernhard
McKnight Kauffer
A.M. Cassandre
Kazimir Malevich
Laslo Moholy-Nagy
Max Bill
Alexander Rodchenko
El Lissitzky
Theo Van Doesburg
Herbert Bayer
Jan Tschichold
Piet Zwart
Herbert Matter
Lester Beall
Ladislav Sutnar
Paul Rand
Alvin Lustig
Saul Bass
Adrian Frutiger
Bradbury Thompson
Alexey Brodovitch
Josef Muller-Brockman
Armin Hoffman
Wolfgang Weingart
Milton Glaser
Ivan Chermayeff
Shigio Fukada
Herb Lubalin
Massimo Vignelli
Neville Brody
David Carson

How to make a gallery on the class site
Create a gallery of work by your designer.

Due Sunday, November 16

Part 1
Write a 200 word paragraph about your assigned graphic designer. Reference published material, but bring your personal insight and thoughts into your writing. Pay particular attention to the the designer’s approach or methodology, the context in which they worked. How did the work of this designer connect to the audience of the period?

Please mind the spelling and grammar. Don’t forget to include your primary research links.

Part 2
Highlight three distinctive and signature points that you learned about that person. These are details which gave you insight into the designer and their work as outlined in the first part above. Be succinct.

Part 3
Create a gallery of 5-9 important works by that designer. Identify the following in the caption: