MMAS 255
HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Karpen 146. MW 12:30-2
location: university of north carolina at asheville
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CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus
rough project calendar

major assignments
constructivism project
designer critique paper
deconstruction project
design & culture paper

writing resources
writing center handouts (UNC)
the citation machine (warlick)

required text
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Fourth Edition) (meggs)


RESOURCES

book of kells on CD-ROM
tristan tzara dadaist poetry generator
kurt schwitters audio
futurism and the futurists
The Italian Futurist book
The Russian Avant-Garde Book (1910-1934)
searchable WWI poster database
more WWI posters listed by country
WWI American posters
WWI British posters
Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
foldout from Catalog of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne, 1928 (Lissitzky)
forty-eight posters: Müller-Brockmann
Paul Rand logos
Saul Bass film titles
On Overcoming Modernism (Wild, 1992)
UCLA extension master graphic designer series
studio dumbar
Emigre typefaces
ray gun magazine
Vaughan Oliver CD covers
Stefan Sagmeister
Chip Kidd book covers
Kyle Cooper motion graphics (click refresh for new reel)
AIGA medalists
100 best posters: 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005
hillman curtis documentaries

Books
Graphic Style* (heller/chwast)
Graphic Design: A Concise History* (hollis)
The Look of the Century* (bambini)
The Grammar of Ornament* (jones)
Genius Moves* (heller/illic)

Blogs
design observer
speak up
AIGA voice
Design Writing Research archive (lupton)

Typography
a brief history of type (walsh)
typeface categories (kunz)
fonts by category (typepool)
idnetifont database
what the font?
fontifier
fontographer

Printing Technology
woodblock
illumination
letterpress
lithography
linotype [hot type]
offset
phototypesetting [cold type]
desktop publishing