- Got paid to paint pictures of the bible
- Illustrates the message as a lot of people couldn't read at that time either.
Graphics through the ages
- Bison and horses (15,000 - 10,000 BC)
- cave paintings to help communicate stories
Hentri De Toulouse - lautrec
- advertising nights out in france
- using fine art with text
Graphic design started out as fine art with text
- Swiss had cutting edge design
- English and American conscripition posters much more tradition with home values
- British design very reserved
- Paul Rand starts to become very inflauntial in america (1946)
- Paul Rand IBM logo
- Hitler shuts down the Bauhaus in 1933 to stop modernist forward thinking
- Hitler puts on degenerate art exhibition
- Sex pistols - do it yourself poster has links to how the punks think and their style and the movement against the hippys
- Volkswagen - think small advert
- Neville brody pushes the boundaries of type and layout
- David carson and ray gun magazine pushes the boundaries of legibility
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