Books and Materials
The term for an early hand-written, hand-made book.
What is Incunabula?
A turn of the 20th century design style featuring undulating curves and decorative, hand-drawn typography.
What is Art Nouveau?
The country where printing was first invented.
What is China?
A breakthrough printing technique using the principle of oil & water repelling each other.
What is lithography?
This key founder/creator of Swiss Style (International Style) left Germany for Switzerland & later England where he worked with Penguin Books.
Who is Jan Tischold?
This material was used to create pages of early hand-made books.
Animal skin (Goat skin, cow skin)
An early 20th century design style that was originally a call for world peace, born out of a reaction to the first world war as being senseless and chaotic.
What is Dada?
This famous city is known for iconic Art Nouveau-inspired design, notably on Metro station entrances.
What is Paris?
This famous style of Japanese printing had an outsize influence on Western art and design for decades.
What is Ukiyo-e (or Japanese woodblock printing)?
Perhaps America’s most famous and influential mid-20th-century graphic designer, best known for logos (such as the CBS logo, FedEx logo, UPS logo, Mobil logo) that have endured as American icons for decades.
Who is Paul Rand?
A type of poster created using metal and wooden type. It was attached to walls in urban areas at the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Broadside.
This early 20th century design style was inspired by industrialization and glamourized what was referred to as the “Machine Age.”
What is Art Deco?
This historical and technological movement powered the need for visual communication.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The invention that Johannes Gutenberg is known for.
What is “moveable type”?
This mid-19th century poet inadvertently sparked a key moment in graphic design history by presenting the words of his poems in ways that formed pictures through a form called calligrammes or concrete poetry.
Who is Guilherme Apollinaire?
A style of hand lettering used in early hand-written books and later adapted into a style for early printing by Guttenberg.
What is Blackletter (also Gothic lettering, Fraktur).
This design style was born in early 20th century Germany, which focused on bright colors and simplified form and layout.
What is Sachplakat?
This Depression-era federally funded arts initiative led to creation of many posters and murals, and provided employment to artists and graphic designers.
What is the Federal Art Project (also Works Progress Administration)?
A type of printing that uses ink rubbed into scratches or incisions made into a hard surface with ink rubbed below the surface.
What is intaglio (or etching)?
This person was the founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the mid-1800s. He was famous for textile and wallpaper design as well as printed materials through his printing company, Kelmscott Press.
Who is William Morris?
Toulouse Lautrec, a famous Impressionist artist, funded his tastes for irreputable women & absinth by creating what for this kind of dance hall?
Posters for Parisian dance halls.
A famous 20th century design style that flourished only briefly between the two world wars yet completely changed the course of graphic design history.
What is the Bauhaus?
An early 20th century fine-art movement that inspired Art Deco.
What is Cubism?
A typeface created in Switzerland by Max Meidinger in 1951 and originally named Neu Hass Grotsque.
What is Helvetica?
This famous Impressionist artist was rejected by his family and found great success in creating dance-hall posters through lithography.
Who was Toulouse Lautrec?