Sunday, December 5, 2010

Final Post-The Graphic Design Timeline

For my final posting, I want to present each era as an representative image based on the timeline that was in our lectures. I had started this post earlier so when I opened Module 11 that had a nice review of what we learned, I was thinking oops. But this is strictly off the chart from the modules. Of course some images I picked were just because I liked it or it was different or it meant something to that time frame or just because. If you find an obvious error, please let me know.

I learned a great deal from the class of "History of Graphic Design." Now every where I go I notice the design and think "that's Bauhaus" or at least take a guess. The artists and designers were always adventurous and pushing the boundaries expanding our world and were great to study to learn about. As I grew up in the printing industry, I was able to relate to many of the printing and typesetting aspects.
I would like to have studied the first four chapters more slowly like 2 chapters a week instead of the 4. The book was so detailed sometimes I felt I had information overload. It had an impossible task which was to try and find as much as possible all the influential design and art that has effected Graphic Design. I also wish all the Modules and quizzes had been released in the beginning so at times I could do ahead. Commenting on others field journals were a challenge as most didn't post until just before it was due. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the class and reading other classmates field journal as they taught me too.

So, here is my small contribution.

PREHISTORIC

Chauvet Cave, France

MIDDLE AGES

Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is embroidered strip of linen telling the story of the events starting in 1064 that led up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

http://www.arthistoryspot.com/2009/10/bayeux-tapestry/

RENAISSANCE

Initial A: A man singing. MS. LUDWIG VI 2, FOL. 128V
Artist unknown, Italian, circa 1460-1480.
Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment.
23-3/4" x 17-5/16"

BARQUE

Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
Johannes Vermeer
jossingalongblog.wordpress.com/

VICTORIAN

Currier & Ives, 1874
http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2010/04/home-sweet-home.html

EARLY MODERNISM

Ballet School, 1873
Edgar Degas
http://chisnell.com/art/Impressionism/Forms/Gallery.aspx

Arts & Crafts

William Morris,

A Book of Verse, 1870

Williams Morris Fan Club

Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha
http://web.pinknet.cz/~malin/mucha.html

Glasgow

The May Queen 1900
Frances MacDonald
http://www.porcelainsandpeacocks.com/

Jugendstil

Illustration by Heinrich Lefler for Die Buecher der Chronika der Drei Schwestern, 1900
http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=728&entry=13678&slide=2#slide

Expressionism

Separation, 1896
Edvard Munch
http://www.paintingmania.com/separation-16_4037.html

Plakatstil

Lucian Bernhard, Steinway Grand Piano Poster
http://tekiela.posterous.com/?tag=posterdesign

MODERNISM

Cubism

Picasso, work and date unknown
http://chisnell.com/art/Cubism/Forms/Gallery.aspx

Futurism

Solidity of Fog 1912
Luigi Russolo
http://www.porcelainsandpeacocks.com/

Suprematism

Suprematism Sketch 1920, by Wassily Kandinsky

http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/product/84163/suprematismsketch1920

DaDa

Berlin Street, 1931
George Grosz
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/63.220

Constructivism

Proun 19D,1922
El Lissitzky
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79040

de Stijl

Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1, 1914

Piet Mondrian

Bauhaus

The Bright Side, 1923
Paul Klee
http://avp-08.blogspot.com/2008_09_28_archive.html

Art Deco

Flight Into the Future, 1946
Arthur Radebaugh
http://www.plan59.com/av/av410.htm

Surrealism

The Farm 1921/22
Joan Miró
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/miro/miro35.html

New Typography

A hand-rendered concept produced by Jan Tschichold while exploring his ideas.

http://retinart.net/graphic-design/jan-tschicholds-inspiring-penguins/

Heroic Realism

Adolf Hitler, Propaganda, Poster, NSDAP

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1597-69851

LATE MODERNISM

Abstract Expressionism Art

John F. Kennedy, 1962
Elaine de Kooning
http://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/group-f64/

Swiss International Style

Trademark Design, 1961
Paul Rand
http://www.splashnology.com/blog/inspiration/162.html

Revivalism & Eclecticism

Barry Zaid

Pop Art

Mickey Mouse by Andy Warhol

http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/Mickey-Mouse-8380.html

Japanese Modern(see below)

Psychedelic

Grateful Dead concert poster for the Fillmore 2-24-67 by Wes Wilson.

Fillmore concert poster
Wes Wilson
http://www.live-grateful-dead-music.com/vintage-concert-posters.html

Conceptual Art

Empty Vessel, Empty Vessel , 1961
George Brecht
http://fluxmuseum.org/calls-for-works-fluxhibition5.html

Feminist Art

Vermeer's Wife,1998
Dotty Attie
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/dotty_attie.php?i=991

POST MODERNISM

This is American, 1968
Takenobu Igarashi
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6502&page_number=17&template_id=1&sort_order=1

Memphis

Memphis Design Fabric, 1980's
http://www.anambitiousprojectcollapsing.com/2009_03_01_arhive.html

Digital

UoPENN.print DC results 11.11/10
David Carson
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

Deconstruction

Reinventions: Insights 2008 Design Lecture Series
Ed Fella
http://www.manystuff.org/?p=1943

Rave

New Simplicity

Random Sharing-Design History as shown with Logos

Visal Art

http://ilovetypography.com/2009/04/05/yes-we-kern-the-week-in-typography-and-fonts/

I learned allot by going through these very fast and visual lectures. I am sharing the link with you so you can explore too. http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/ I have put two below to because they both show Design History in regards to logos. The first is a "what if" with Coppertone and the second is what really did happen with the Prudential logo.

http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/9000_review/review.html

The Prudential Logo has gone through many design changes that reflected the current trends. Check it out here to see and because of our study, we can easily see what time period each is.
http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/0040_prudential/prudential.html

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Norman Rockwell

For my own benefit and perhaps for someone else’s, I wanted to know why Norman Rockwell was not even mentioned in Meggs' textbook. Drucker/McVarish did give a nod on page 242 of "Graphic Design History" with one picture "Freedom of Speech." A mere two lines in the section about Iconography and national stereotypes is all. In this small book many were only mentioned in this way or not all as Meggs is the more detailed book. But at least he was in it.

So here is my small attempt to expose others to this great "illustrator", his impact, and how he was shunned in his own time by the industry. Below are some of the most famous of his paintings along with a few of my favorites. He did many others that showed daily life of small town America and showed common experiences. If graphic design is about visual communications, he was a master at it.

At the end is featured an recent exhibit of artists of today and their version of the "Four Freedoms." Some of whom we have studied in our class.

"Four Essential Human Freedoms" 1943 were painted in oil in response to President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech in 1941. After coming up with the ideas, all the government offices turned him down. (Read more about his inspiration and story.) The paintings were first featured for four consecutive weeks on the cover of the "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine where much of his work published and were accompanied with articles written by prominent thinkers of the day. They were than turned into advertisements for war bonds by the Office of War Information which helped raise $133 million for the war effort. They speak to the heart of America. What we were fighting for then and what we fighting for now.

Famous rejection quote from that very same Office of War Information when he tried to get someone in Washington to use the ideas of the "Four Freedoms."

"'The last war you illustrators did the posters,’ he said. ‘This war we’re going to use fine arts men, real artists. If you want to make a contribution to the war effort you can do some of these pen-and-ink drawings for the Marine Corps calisthenics manual. But as far as your Four Freedoms go, we aren’t interested.’"

That sums up what was thought of Rockwell early on as he was considered a commercial artist that did his work solely for money but now he is an acknowledged artist and not just an illustrator. The people always knew but it took the art world time to catch up.

"I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed."
-Norman Rockwell

I adore his Santa Claus paintings!

The facial expression on the boy is priceless.

Santa Claus doesn't exist

Girl in the Mirror, 1954

Abstract Concrete. This is how I felt sometimes in this class.

The Gossips 1948

Family Tree 1959

After the Prom 1957

A Pictorial History of the United States Army

To Make Man Free WW2

Homecoming

I will do my best.

There are many more you can look at here and of course just googling. http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=372
http://www.rockwelllicensing.com/

The "Thoughts on Democracy" exhibit on the "Four Freedoms"

by contemporary artists and designers.

The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian in Florida to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” posters, which were recently gifted to the museum by Leonard A. Lauder.