History of graphic design

This history of graphic design I found really interesting. A lot of people think graphic design is quite a modern day thing "computer based art" in this lecture I learnt that graphic design dates back as far as the 1800's which is surprising, also this lecture defined the meaning of graphic design which can be quite had to define as it can be quite a mix of Art based skills.

We worked through a time line dating back from as early as the 1860 too the current day.

1860s-arts and crafts.
1880s- art nouveau
1887- vienna secession and new objectivity
1900- futurism, dada, cubism and surrealism
1910-art deco and se still
1917- constructivism
1918- bauhaus
1924- roots of modern american design
1928- New Typography and Isotope Movement
1940 - New York School
1950 - International Typography Style
1954- Pop Art
1959- psychedelic movement
1970- Significant Artists
1971 - Grafitti and Street Art
1975 - post modernism
1975 - Information Visualisation

There were 2 artist I really found interesting such as Wes Wilson and David Carson.

Wes Wilson was a graphic designer and part of the Psychedelic Movement. He was best known for designing trip festival posters, a hippie festival in the 1960s. Wes Wilson also created a psychedelic font in 1966.  The font shows movement and unusual shapes like the trip from LSD.The Physcadelic font is serif and only just legible   Wilson also created the last poster for the Beatles, which he didn't know at the time but would be there last concert. His poster work contained a high contrast in colour and between colour, odd shapes and his psychedelic font. Wes Wilson still creates modern hypnotic posters in this style, he also creates fine art pieces in a hippie style using water colour, and abstract drawings which really capture the key essence of the hypnotic 60s. He has worked with a number of artists creating posters of this style over a number of years, some musicians which you could obviously see using this style in there work such as the beatles but some less obvious such as Otis Redding, which didn’t seem like a hippie artist as he created deep soul, southern soul and R&B music. 

David Carson was a designer who based his work around the grunge sub culture. Carson was a Graphic designer who's designed and created the Ray-gun magazine. Carson was called the “God father of grunge”. His methods where messy, the magazines contained ripped and shredded designs, gritty typography and general hand made Chaos. The Ray gun magazine was first published in 1992 in the prime of grunge. David Carson was the art director of Ray-Gun magazine for 3 out of 7 years of it’s publishings. David Carson’s most recognisable work is the experimental typography work in these Ray gun magazines. He still works in a grunge style in his more contemporary work. Carson has managed to modernise the grunge style. Still using the haphazard aspect of the grunge sub culture but modernising it using computer software adding glows to text and making the text look neat while still having a random visual aspect by over lapping text and adjusting the spacing between words and characters. Carson has also adapted his photography in this way by using long shutter speeds to create gritty work with contrast between colour and shadows and highlights. To this day he has designed for big companies such as Bose corporation, Armani, Audi and many more and still incorporates certain Grunge aspects into the work.