" To design is to communicate clearly by whatever
means you can control or master. "
Milton Glaser
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- Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) - The Museum of Modern Art, New York presents the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), one of the leading Russian artists in the period following the Revolution of October 1917. On view from June 25 through October 6, 1998, the exhibition is comprised of more than 300 works in a wide range of mediums and includes an approximate reconstruction of the Workers' Club that Rodchenko designed for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.
- American Sign Museum - The purpose of the American Sign Museum is to preserve, archive and display a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms. The Museum will also document and survey the products and equipment utilized in the design and manufacture of signs, and offer biographical information of the people who have contributed to the industry.
- The Art of Persuasion: - The history of American advertising in the early part of this century (and graphic design history more generally) is crucially in need of serious study. Only in the past fifteen years has this area of American history received any real scrutiny at all, and this has been scant. On one front, American historians such as Pamela Laird and Roland Marchand have realized the importance corporate communicators of the 1920s and 1930s have had in shaping the way contemporary American culture tells its stories.
- Design Archive Online - A networked learning resource on the history of design. It presents a collection of approximately one-thousand images with supporting descriptive documentation drawn from materials in the RIT Library Special Collections.
- Design History Society - Founded in 1977, the Society works nationally and internationally to promote and support the study and understanding of design history. Its activities are focused on consolidating the teaching of the subject in universities and colleges, and demonstrating the widespread cultural and economic significance of design history.
- Dr. Leslie and the Composing Room - An MFA Thesis Project Written & Designed by Erin K. Malone. Originally conceived as a Hypercard Interactive experience, the work has been translated and modified for the Web so that others may benefit from this design history research.
- Follow the Sun - Australian Travel Posters 1930's - 1950's. The posters in this exhibition are drawn from the collections of the National Library of Australia.
- Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - This is a virtual online gallery I've created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. It is not my whole collection, just a portion. Everything on this website is original. The material is not reproductions.
- The History of PostScript - Learn the story of modern PostScript technology and its impact on the publishing industry.
- A history of the CND logo - One of the most widely known symbols in the world, in Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament – and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the United States and much of the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.
- The Italian Futurist Book - Futurism (1909-1944) was perhaps the first movement in the history of art to be engineered and managed like a business. Since its beginning, Futurism was very close to the world of advertising and, like a business, promoted its product to a wide audience.
- Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky - Explore the Getty Research Institute site devoted to this modernist Russian typographer, book designer, and architect. Includes chronology, images, and links to related resources.
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- Posters American Style - This web site for Posters American Style uses the newest communications inventions to learn about one of the oldest communications inventions. Collection by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- The Swiss Poster Collection - The Swiss Poster Collection at Carnegie Mellon University is a critical selection of more than 300 works representing the Swiss Posters of the Year competition and other Swiss posters from 1971 to the present. The collection is for students, teachers, scholars, and the general viewer to explore the art of the poster and its leading expression in Swiss graphic design.
- Graphic Design Education Fundamentals - By Michael Kroeger. Especially now with computer technology dominating the design industry we need to establish basic guidelines of study for current university graphic design students. I have been working on this project for the past several years. I developed these projects in my curriculum to guide first year design students through their design education. The students make all designs by hand using cut paper or gouache.
- Graphic Design - Typography - The pages are drawn from the holdings in the rare book section of the Dept. of Special Collections. They are to give you some idea as to what we have that can be used in the study of the history of typography and book design. The images of the printed material can be quite large; all sizes are given below the thumbnail. University of Florida.
- A Website about Corporate Identity - The Resources section contains information about corporate identity, including a bibliography and links to related sites on the internet. Furthermore, the site provides a catalogue containing descriptions of a large number of corporate identities.
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