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Started my History of Graphic Design class last night.\u00a0\u00a0 The guy teaching it has a solo design practice after working first for Larson, then a smaller advertising company.<\/p>\n
The class consists of four women, all working or having worked in design oriented professions, and me.<\/p>\n
As I anticipated, this is way different from anything I’ve done before, even different from art history.\u00a0 Graphic Design proceeds, our instructor says, in an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary manner.\u00a0 This differentiates it from art history where styles and movements often appear over against something has come before, abstract expressionism versus the entire representational tradition, for example.\u00a0 Graphic design, in contradistinction, moves in gradual steps from, say, cuneiform and Egyptian demotic to the Phoenician alphabet which morphs into the Greek alphabet.<\/p>\n
Like art history, though, graphic design has one particular emphasis that sets it apart from any other discipline I’ve studied, mark-making.\u00a0 Cuneiform for example had triangular marks made by a cut reed in soft clay.\u00a0 This emphasized straight lines, no curves.\u00a0 The Phoenician alphabet used ink on paper, so curves entered writing, made more easy by the both the substratum, paper, and the mark-making tool, a brush or pen.<\/p>\n
There’s much more here than I can recapitulate in a quick summary, but I’ll keep you informed as I go along.<\/p>\n
One thing:\u00a0 we have a project that will take up the last three weeks of the course.\u00a0 My thought right now is to redesign Ancientrails.\u00a0 Just how, not sure.\u00a0 If any of you have ideas, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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