Moveable Type
The invention of typography ranks near the creation of this as one of the most important advances in civilization.
What is writing?
Marcantonio Raimondi worked out a deal to reproduce the paintings of this Italian renaissance painter using copperplate engraving.
Who is Raphael?
Most design historians agree that this emerged as a profession during the industrial revolution of the late 19th century.
What is graphic design?
The term ukiyo-e means this in Japanese.
What is "pictures of the floating world"?
Jugendstil was the term for Art Nouveau in this European country?
What is Germany?
The style of blackletter type chosen by Johann Gutenberg to print his 42-line version of the Bible was known as this.
What is Textura?
English engraver John Pine worked with fellow countryman, James Oglethorpe, on an image envisioning Oglethorpe’s utopian dream for this city.
What is Savannah?
During the industrial revolution, mass production separated planning-for-making-things from making them. Making things became production while planning-for-making-things became this.
What is design?
This French Art Nouveau designer is described as the “father of women’s liberation” in the textbook because he introduced a new role model for women in the late Victorian era.
Who is Jules Chéret?
The title of this magazine, associated with the Vienna Secession, means "Sacred Spring".
What is "Ver Sacrum"?
As far as we know, printing with moveable type was invented in this country in the early 11th century using wood.
Because these early examples of graphic design introduced the masses to symbol recognition, sequencing, and logical deduction, they had great value outside of idle entertainment.
What are playing cards?
This industrial-era exhibition held in Hyde Park, London was considered to be a failure by designers at the time.
This Belgian designer was known for his allegorical figures used to advertise desirable beverages such as absinthe, hot cocoa, and coffee.
Who is Henri Privat-Livemont?
The unprecedented editorial policy to allow each cover designer to design the masthead helped this groundbreaking magazine dynamically express a youthful theme.
What is "Jugend"?
This typeface, designed by a committee in France, was the first to be classified as a transitional typeface because it differed stylistically from oldstyle typefaces originating in Venice.
What is the Romain du Roi?
Louis Daguerre’s early daguerreotype print, Paris Boulevard, appears to show empty streets due to the effects of long exposure. It also features the first of these ever to be photographed?
What are people?
The Linotype machine, designed by this German-American immigrant, was so named because it literally produced type a line at a time.
Who is Ottmar Mergenthaler?
Alphonse Mucha’s work was so pervasive in the late 1890s that this term became synonymous with L’Art Nouveau.
What is "Le Style Mucha"?
This designer combined two German concepts, Gesamtkunstwerk and Sachlichkeit to accomplish what William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement could not—a synthesis of quality and affordability in industrially produced goods.
Who is Peter Behrens?
Critics hailed Giambattista Bodoni’s book designs as the typographic expression of this and a return to “antique virtue.”
What is neoclassicism?
This American designer of the Victorian period became famous for his chromolithographic prints, including a valentine card featured in the Module 2 lecture.
Who is Louis Prang?
This newspaper was the first to use Friedrich Koenig’s steam-powered cylinder press.
What is the Times of London?
This was a sub-genre of ukiyo-e that focused on pictures of actors in popular kabuki roles.
What is yakusha-e?
The AEG graphic identity program made consistent use of these three linchpin elements that would be present in corporate identity programs as the genre evolved half a century later.
What are: a logo, a typeface, and a consistent layout of elements following standardized formats?