WHO AM I?
This designer is connected to the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris
This movement valued handcrafted design and pushed back against mass production.
Arts and Crafts
The art of arranging letters and text so they are readable and visually effective.
Typography
Around this time, Egyptian hieroglyphs developed as an early writing system.
3250–3200 BCE
This designer brought bold Caribbean-inspired patterns and colors into textile design.
Althea McNish
This artist combined African and African American imagery with Art Deco and modernist forms.
Aaron Douglas
This movement used curved lines, decorative lettering, and plant-like forms.
Art Nouveau
A collection of colors selected to work together in a design.
Palette
Bi Sheng developed movable ceramic type around this year.
1040
This flat-surface printing process helped expand the production of illustrated materials.
Lithography
This designer became known for major corporate logos and simple, memorable visual identities.
Paul Rand
This movement used bold geometry, diagonal lines, limited colors, and photomontage.
Constructivism
A specific style of letters used in a design.
Font
Gutenberg developed his successful movable-metal-type printing system in Europe around this year.
1450
This process made it possible to create lithographic prints using multiple colors.
Chromolithography
This Black Panther Party artist used bold graphics to communicate political and social messages.
Emory Douglas
This movement connected art and craft with technology and function.
Bauhaus
The arrangement of elements that helps viewers know what to look at first.
Visual Hierarchy
Black Lives Matter began in this year.
2013
This 1980s development allowed designers to combine text and graphics on personal computers to create page layouts.
Desktop Publishing
This designer is connected to hip-hop visual identity.
Cey Adams
This style emphasized grids, sans-serif type, photography, and clear visual hierarchy.
Swiss Style
A collection of images, colors, textures, and ideas used to plan a design's visual direction.
Moodboard
This design movement lasted from 1919 to 1933 and connected art, craft, and industry.
Bauhaus
This program, introduced in 1987, became an important tool for creating vector graphics.
Adobe Illustrator