The History of Graphic Design from Lynda.com

While evaluating a trial of Lynda.com I stumbled across what I thought was going to be just a test course, and turned out to be a very valuable course that caught my attention and forced me to finish the entire series.


Topics Covered:

• Why study graphic design history?
• Art Nouveau
• The Arts and Crafts movement
• The Soviet Revolution
• European avante-garde
• New Typography
• The great age of posters
• American modernism
• Post-war optimism
• The rise of the corporate identity
• Exploring the fused metaphor and the "big idea"
• Reviewing Swiss typography
• Post-modernism
• Minimalism
• The West Coast shift

 Author:
 Sean Adams is a partner at AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills. He has been recognized by every major competition and publication including Communication Arts, Graphis AIGA, The Type Directors Club, the British Art Directors Club, and the New York Art Directors Club. AdamsMorioka has exhibited often, including a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Adams has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally in I.D. magazine's I.D. Forty.


Partial Bibliography:
Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
http://www.amazon.com/Meggs-History-Graphic-Design-Philip/dp/0470168730

Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis
Graphic Design History
http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-History-2nd-Edition/dp/0205219462

Johanna Drucker, Emily McVarish
Graphic Design: A New History
http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-A-New-History/dp/0300120117

Stephen J. Eskilson
Graphic Design History
http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-History-Georgette-Ballance/dp/1581150946

Georgette Ballance, Steven Heller
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Referenced-Language-Applications/dp/1592537421

Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin Vit
Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer
http://www.amazon.com/Herb-Lubalin-Director-Designer-Typographer/dp/0931144280

Gertrude Snyder, Alan Peckolick
Paul Rand
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Rand-Steven-Heller/dp/0714839949