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General Info
Break
Brief intro to Graphic Design
Prehistory of Visual Communication
Intro: Lab Activity and Project #1
Dictionary Definition
graph·ic |ˈgra-fik|adjective
1: of or relating to the pictorial esp. involving drawing, engraving, or lettering2: of or relating to the art of printing 3: formed by writing, drawing, or engraving
de·sign |di-ˈzīn|verb
1: to conceive or execute a plan2: to draw, lay out, or prepare a design
Why is Graphic Design important?
Graphic designers use visual means to lead users through information.
Why is Graphic Design important?
Graphic designers help humans better understand information in the world.
Graphic Design has a “Function”
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Graphic designer often served as the ‘lubricant’ for other disciplines:
product design
architecture
fashion
and as the ‘gloss and glitter’ of the media industries:
publishing
film
television
internet
Old thinking
Graphic designers today have become producers, creating products, furniture, garments, textiles, typefaces, databases, magazines, novels, music, critical essays, films and videos.
(Form and Function)
New thinking
Involves thinking and creative process related to idea generation and informed design decision-making.
Design Process
Graphic Design is grounded in fundamental principles that underpin good and efficient design.
Design Principles
Human perception: most humans - those with normally functioning eyes and brains - perceive and comprehend information similarly.
Understanding basic principles of cognitive psychology
How Graphic Designers Think
“Building Blocks” essential to good graphic design:
Shape and Form
Spatial Awareness (layout and grid systems)
Typography: understanding what type is and how to work with it
Dynamics, Emphasis and Contrast
Using Colour for emphasis, orientation or decoration
Graphic design’s relation to technological change
The formal aspects such as character, idea & quality of design changes as technology changes.
Historically, designers are employed to represent technological change & to make it understandable to non-specialists.
Design (style) reflects changing cultural values in relation to technological change.
As technology changes, the way design is produced, reproduced, distributed and understood also changes.
Prehistory
Images taken from: Megg’s History of Graphic Design and Jubert’s Typography and Graphic Design
Early Calendar (30,000 - 20,000 B.C.) found in Dordogne, France
A sequence of incisions on animal bone. The incisions are believed to have been used to record phases of the moon (interpretation is open to debate).
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1st Writing Tools? - over 200,000 years ago
Above: Paleolithic bones incised with a series of lines.Below: Pieces (churinga) of carved stone and wood with abstract patterns, Australia.
Cave painting from Lascaux (c. 15,000 - 10,000 B.C.)
Random placement and shifting scale signify prehistoric people’s lack of structure and sequence in recording experience.
1st Writing (c. 3100 B.C.) - pictographic pre-cuneiform tablet (clay)
Early accountants: shows number of cows (“V” with curve on top) and sheep (cross within a circle)
Early Grids (c. 3100 B.C.) - early Sumerian pictographic tablets
The archaic pictographic script contained the seeds for thedevelopment of writing. Information is structured into grid zonesby horizontal and vertical division.
Better Writing, Better Grids (c. 2360 B.C.) - cuneiforms
Cuneiform writing contains phonetic + syllabic elements which provided a flexible way of communication. This led to marked improvements in agricultural production + science advancement.
Egyptian stone relief hieroglyphs (c. 1450 B.C.) - detail
Written hieroglyphics were simplified, but they maintained their pictographic origin.
Hieroglyph for “scribe” - depicted the Old Kingdom palette, the drawstring sack for dried ink cakes, and a reed brush holder.
Evolution from hieroglyph to script
c. 2700 B.C. hieroglyphicc. 1500 B.C. hieroglyphic manuscript handc. 1300 B.C. hieratic script c. 400 B.C. demotic script