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0303 IAT 102 Graphic Design
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0303 Typography: European Books Industrial Revolution + Victorian Era Break Design Basics
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European Books Content and images taken from: Megg’s History of Graphic Design and Jubert’s Typography and Graphic Design
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Johannes Gutenberg (1453 A.D.) Printing Press – typesetting / press operation
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movable type Typography refers to the use of independent, movable and reusable bits of metal, raised forms Letterpress technology a classic typographic page
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Illuminated Manuscripts (c.1450 ) Sample pages from the Gutenberg Bible
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Illuminated Manuscripts (1460 A.D.) The Book of Hours
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Illuminated Manuscripts Lindisfarne Gospels Mirror of Human Salvation - Peter Berger
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(c. 15 th century) Jost Amman (1466 A.D.) Ars Moriendi (1470 A.D.) Ars Moriendi European block printing
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Engraving (c. 15 th century) Albrecht Durer Nuremburg Chronicles (1493 A.D.) x
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Printing Shop: The Plate Printer (1642 A,D) by Abraham Bosse. A convincing range of lights and darks is built from scratched lines
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Victorian Era
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Pre- Victorian Era Agrarian society (agriculture) that relied on animal and human power for energy
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Industrial Revolution began between 1760 - 1840 Shift from agricultural society to an industrial society powered by the steam engine James Watt (1736 - 1819)
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Scientific knowledge enabled… - travel - electricity + gas-fueled engines (last 3 decades of 1800s) - growing urban population - factory system w/ machine manufacturing - division of labour - assembly line Train powered by steam engine - mass production (material goods) - graphics - marketing factory output
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- spanned two-thirds of 19th Century Queen Victoria - reigned from 1837 to 1901 Victorian Era
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The word ‘Victorian’ began to be used to express a new consciousness of the industrial era’s spirit, culture and moral standards.
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Ornaments played an important role in Victorian design.
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(c. 1880-1900) Forst Averell (c. 1870) Riverside print - Krebbs Litho Co. Chromolithography
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Chromolithography (c.1867) (c.1890)
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Chromolithographic packages (c. late 19 th century) U.K. and America
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Chromolithography (1884. A.D.) W.J. Morgan Theatre Co. / J.H. Bufford & Sons - sheet music
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Chromolithography (c. 1880’s) fine art print / sheet music cover
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Harper’s Illuminated & New Pictorial Bible (1846 A.D.) Joseph A. Adams & Co.
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Chromolithography (1856 A.D.) 5 Celebrated Clowns - Joseph Morse, 8.5’ x 11’
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Large colour plate book (1856 A.D) The Grammar of Ornament - Owen Jones (England)
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Large colour plate book (1856 A.D) The Grammar of Ornament - Owen Jones
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Victorian Illustrations (1834 ) woodcut / (1887) engraving Slab-serif typeface “fat-face” types
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Victorian Illustration (1890) Paul C. Helleu portraiture / Scribner’s cover (1895) Charles Dana Gibson
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Victorian Illustration (1871 ) Frederick Walker/ (c. 1880-90’s) Gibson Girl - Charles Dana
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Victorian Children’s Toy Books (1874 A.D.) Beauty & the Beast / Walter Crane
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Victorian Children’s Book Illustrations (c. 1880’s) Kate Greenaway / Ralph Caldecott
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Victorian Book Illustration (c. 1880’s) Three Jovial Horsemen / Hey Diddle Diddle - Ralph Caldecott
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The Crystal Palace - great exhibition of 1851 (Joseph Paxton)
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Surprise
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Design Tools
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How do you lead users through information by visual means?
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Alignment Golden Rectangle Balance Consistency / Repetition Contrast Proximity White space Gestalt Some well-accepted principles of graphic design
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What is the most important information? What should you see first? Second? hierarchy
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Scale (size) Weight Figure/ground White space Position Texture Colour Value Design fundamentals that help provide visual contrast are:
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figure/ground
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proximity
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weight, scale + texture
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visual contrast
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balance - symmetry
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balance - asymmetry
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American WWII production ad (c. 1941) Jean Carlu (USA)
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Lithography - Odeon Records ad, (c. 1929 ) Jean Carlu
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Most amateur designers think of a square as just a more convenient rectangle. You will quickly find that there are more interesting proportions than a square… golden section
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Ratio: 5:3
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golden section
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rule of thirds
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fin
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