Lecture Notes: Graphic Design a Medium for the Masses

Herbert Spencer - ‘Mechanized art’

Max Bill & Josef Muller - ‘Visual Communication’

Richard Hollins - ’ The business of making or choosing marks and arranging them on a surface to convey an idea.

Paul Rand – Graphic design

It is believed Graphic design, as we know started in the 19^th century is an advertising tool, however it has been argued that cave paintings were the first form of graphic design.

Bauhaus

- Huge influence on the development of graphic design

- The first place to teach graphics

- Nazis shut down the Bauhaus in 1933

- Tutor moved to work in America

- Wassiy Kandinsky was taught at the bauhas and was one of the founders of the straight-edge style.