The directions for this final project seem simple (pick a past design style and argue why it is better than today’s), but the complexity and sheer breadth of graphic design…

Meggs says Zembla was 100% original, I need to see more example of Vince Frost’s work So as usual, it is hard to forget about the last 20 years of…

Assignment: Module 9 includes much of recent graphic design, names, countries and styles most of you have seen. Tell us what interests you of recent past. Seeing how designers respond…

Assignment: This module continues more of the same material as Module 7, European influences and contemporary design. Tell me what or who impresses you most. Herb Lubalin is the one…

What in the world is Leo Lionni doing in the Module 7 lecture? He is a children’s’ book illustrator! I was very surprised to see Leo Lionni’s name as an…

John Heartfield’s work – why don’t we see work like this today? I was quite taken with the pictures of his work in the readings, and did some of my…

New figure to research: Hector Guimard Meggs didn’t mention Guimard in any detail, but he was the best known French Art Nouveau architect, He was famous enough at the time…

Why did local governments pass no-posting ordinances, one of the factors leading to the demise of poster houses? Posters have an important history in protest and politics that will come…

Meggs Chapter 5 Reading Notes Why did it take a scribes and illuminators 4 – 5 months to make a 200 page book? That’s roughly 20 weeks, 10 pages/week, which…