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frank lloyd wright, adolf loos, peter behrens
Definition
set the trend at the turn of the century > plastic volume and geometrical form > a heartbeat ahead of modern painting
Term
kasmir malevich (1878-1935)
Definition
founded a pure painting style of basic forms and pure color called "suprematism"
Term
what is suprematism?
Definition
supreme expression of feeling, influenced by futurism and cubism
Term
What did the russian revolution do?
Definition
accelerated a new movement in art and in 1917 "leftist" artists turned their energies to a massive propaganda effort in support of the BOLSHEVIKS.
Term
what did kasmir malevich and wassily kandinsk (1866-1944) argue?
Definition
that art should be spiritual and not political
Term
CONSTRUCTIVISM

vladmir tatlin (1885-1935) and alexander rodchenk0 (1891 - 1956) ...what did these 2 do in 1921?
Definition
led a group of 25 artists opposing this viewpoint in 1921, that art can be political and not just spiritual.
Term
Who is El Lissitzky? (1890 - 1941)
Definition
A russian painter , architect , graphic designer and photgrapher
Term
What did el lissitzky do?
Definition
She was the leader of contructivism and influenced the course of modern graphic design.
Term
What happened to the Russian government in 1921?
Definition
the government turned hostile, accusing advanced artists of "capitalist comsmopoiltanism"
Term
what is the translation for de stijil?
Definition
the style
Term
When and where was the stijil movement launched?
Definition
In the Netherlands in 1917.
Term
Theo van doesburg (1883-1931) and painters like piet mondrian (1872-1944) worked in what kind of style?
Definition
an abstract gemotric style
Term
De Stijil magazine became a natural vehicle to express the movement’s principles in graphic designs by Vilmos Huszar and van Doesburg...

what did van does burg impose?
Definition
Van Doesburg imposed horizontal and vertical structure upon the alphabet and poster designs. Curved lines were eliminated and sans serif typography was favored. Type was often composed in tight rectangular blocks and asymmetrically balanced layouts were composed on an open grid. Red was favored as a second colour to black in printing because it signified revolution.
Term
what did Ladislav Sutnar’s book jackets and editorial design develop?
Definition
an organizational simplicity and typographical clarity, giving impact to the communication
Term
The Bauhaus shaped the aesthetics of ...?
Definition
modern design
Term
where and when did the bauhaus school open?
Definition
1919 in weimar germany
Term
what book did Johannes Itten write and compile that we use in RRC today?
Definition
The art of colour.
Term
The heart of Bauhaus education was the preliminary course, initially established by ...
Definition
Johnannes Itten (1888-1967)
Term
Who was Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Definition
The founder of Bauhaus
Term
Gropius changed the slogan of the Bauhaus from “A Unity of Art and Handicraft” to ____________________
Definition
"Art and Technology, a New Unity”, (reflecting the reorientation occurring at the school.)
Term
Johannes Itten was replaced by ______________________
Definition
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1923 (as head of the preliminary course. He had a marked influence on the evolution of Bauhaus instruction and philosophy.)
Term
Moholy-Nagy said that “typography is a tool of __________"
Definition
communication
Term
In graphic design,
he advocated “an uninhibited use of all linear directions (therefore not only horizontal articulation). We use all typefaces, type sizes, geometrical forms, colours, etc. We want to create a new language of typography whose elasticity, variability, and freshness
of typographical composition are exclusively dictated by the inner law of expression and the optical effect.”

who is this mystery man?
Definition
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Term
In March of 1933, armed Nazis arrested _____________ and his wife, accusing him of being a “Cultural Bolshevik” and creating “un German “ typography.
Definition
Jan Tschichold (1902-1974)
Term
What are Photoplastics?
Definition
a way of manipulating film to make it more functional and clear. (takes it beyond straight photography - the same way we would use photoshop on a photo)
Term
who became a professor of the newly added typography and graphic design workshop of the Bauhau? ________ workshop made striking typographical design innovations using sans-serif fonts, and he designed a universal type that reduced the alphabet to clear, simple, and rationally constructed forms ?
Definition
Herbert Bayer
Term
[image]
Definition

The Group of Seven logo, created by Franklin Carmichael for the Group’s first exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto (the Art Gallery of Ontario),

 1920.

Term
Describe group of Seven's work
Definition

nationalistic sentiment with a deeply rooted-love for the natural environment of Canada.

bright and bold use of paint and colour

Term

Seven founding members of the group of Seven were:

 

Definition

Lawren S. Harris,

Jack MacDonald,

Arthur Lismer,

Fredrick Varley,

Frank Johnston,

Franklin Carmichael and

A.Y. Jackson.

Term
When was the group of 7s first show?
Definition
1920 (though tom thompson died in 1917. Tom thompson was part of the original group, but was not an "official member")
Term

Swiss design

or

International typographic style

 

Definition
  • Emerged in 1950s
  • Unity through assymetrical organization
  • Mathematical, grid-based
  • Objective photography
  • Sans serif type set in a flush-left, ragged-right margin configuration became a standard part of Swiss design.
Term
3 Artists of the Swiss style
Definition

- Ernst Keller 

- Theo Ballmer 

- Max Bill 

Term

Swiss style: twenty-one Univers styles

Who designy?

Definition
Adrian Frutiger
Term

Swiss Style: Helvetica

who design?

Definition
Edouard Hoffman and Max Miedinger
Term

Swiss Style: 

Palatino, Melior, and Optima

Who design?  

Definition
Hermann Zapf
Term
Who is Armin Hoffman? 
Definition

In 1965, Hofmann published Graphic Design Manual, a book that presented his application of elementary design principles to graphic design.

"the designer is charged

with creating contrast and harmony at the same time."

Term

[image]

What IS THIS?

Definition

-Univers Font by Adrian Frutiger

-designed in 1954

-The twenty-one fonts all have the same x-height and ascender and descender lengths. Look totally fabulous together all the time. 

Term

[image]

WHO MADE THIS COVER??

Definition
Alexey Brodovich, photography by Herbert Matter,
Harper’s Bazaar cover, 1940 
Term

[image]

who designed this poster?

Definition
Jean Carlu, poster for
the office of Emergency Management, 1941 
Term

[image]

who designed this poster?

Definition
Joseph Binder, recruiting poster for the U.S. Navy, 1954 
Term
When was Helvetica first designed and by who? 
Definition
In the middle 1950s, Edouard Hoffman of the Swiss HAAS type foundry, collaborated with Max Miedinger
Term

Hermann Zapf

Which three swiss style typefaces did he design and when were they released? 

Definition
Palatino was released in 1950, Melior in 1952, and Optima in 1958.
Term
Who was Josef Muller-Brockmann?
Definition
Muller-Brockmann was the Swiss designer whose impact through his writing, teaching, and work, was the most influential beyond the Swiss borders.
Term
which artist of the International Typographic style formed his own design studio in New York in 1952? .
Definition

Rudolph de Harak 

His compositions displayed structural order and simplicity where photographs and simple geometric shapes combine to express the content of the message

Term

 

 

 American designers who experimented with the new typography:

Definition

 

 

- William Addison Dwiggins

- S. A. Jacobs

- Merle Armitage

- Lester Beall

Term

what did this man do?

 

 Lester Beall (1903-1969)

Definition

 

 

 He was an American who broke with traditional American advertising layout and attempted strong, direct, and exciting visual forms. The graphics of Beall and the typography of Merle Armitage were the early forerunners of contemporary graphics being executed today on the computer. 


Term

 

 

 Graphic designers who immigrated to the United States:

 

name 5

Definition

 

 

 - Erté (né Romain de Tirtoff) cover designer and illustrator for Harper’s Bazaar

- Agha (Dr. Mehemed Fehmy Agha) art director Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House & Garden

- Martin Munkacsi photographer for Harper’s Bazaar

- Alexey Brodovitch art director for Harper’s Bazaar

- Joseph Binder 1939 New York World’s Fair posters, poster for A & P Coffee

Term

 

 

 The period of the 1930s and early 1940s saw the introduction of what kind of style?

Definition

 

 

 exotic decorative Persian style fashion illustrations by Erté, bleed photography, machine-set sans serif type, white space, and asymmetrical layouts by Agha, Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray influenced fashion photography by Munkacsi and Brodovitch, and Cubistic stylized airbrush illustrations by Joseph Binder

Term

who was the founderof Container Corporation of America?

Definition

 

Walter P. Paepcke (1896 - 1960), 

Term

which advertising agency did paul rand work at from 1941 to 1954?

 

Definition

 

Paul Rand worked at the Weintraub advertising agency from 1941 to 1954

Term

[image]

who designed this poster?

Definition

 

 

 Paul Rand, cover for Direction magazine, 1940

Term

what did 

 

 

 Alvin Lustig (1915-1955)


believe?

Definition

 

 

 Lustig believed in the importance of painting to design and design education. Tragically, Lustig became totally blind by 1954 and died one year later thus cutting short a career that would have been a major contribution to design education

Term

 

 

 Who became one of the most influential graphic designers in postwar America?

Definition

 

 

 Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995)

Term

what did saul bass do?

 

(1920-1996)

Definition

 

 

 Bass stripped the visual complexity from American graphic design and reduced the communication to a simple pictographic image. Chunky forms are cut from paper with scissors or drawn with a brush and decorative letterforms were used in his work as typography or handwriting. Altogether, there was a robust energy about his images. 

Saul 

Term

[image]

 

who made this poster?

Definition
saul bass
Term

what did DUGALD STERMER become  in 1965  ?

Definition

 

In 1965 Dugald Stermer became art director of Ramparts magazine. Ramparts became the journal of opposition to the Vietnam War. Stermer did not commission images to illustrate articles or topics - he used images as a separate communication to provide “information, direction, and purpose” distinct from the printed word 

Term

 

the typographic genius of his time was _________

Definition

 

 

Herb Lubalin 1918-1981

Term

 

Famous corporate logo design by Paul Rand

Definition

 

- IBM (International Business Machines)

- Westinghouse

- American Broadcasting Company

- NeXT Computers


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