GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: 19TH CENTURY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

19TH CENTURY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

In the Victorian era, fly poster typography was emerged described in the illustration. It used large amount of color in combination with large font sizes which was created from movable metal type. As well as being made from wood, this was used to create the two-colored typefaces. The technologies in movable metal type had allowed for companies to look at advertising with more ease and less cost.

FLY POSTER TYPOGRAPHY

Fat Face Roman typeface was created by Robert Thorne who was found the style in 1801. Fat Face was the first typeface created for advertising. Its key features are vertical stresses and hairline serifs, the structure of the typeface has thick main body, thick in width, the serifs and connecting strokes are thin hairlines and bracketed. This typeface is legible, it has the Victorian quality which can be recognizable and loud. 

FAT FACE TYPEFACE

Slab Serif Typeface designed by Vincent Figgins (1817). The Slab Serif has low contrast and design of uniform stroke. This typeface is chunky, thick and bold used for headlines in the diameter of the serifs matches the thickness of the main body. The typeface would be produced commercially by machine and the classic slab serif is recognizable with almost mono-spaced qualities that are clearly sees in the upper casing.

SLAB SERIF TYPEFACE

Clarendon Typeface was designed by Robert Besley in 1845. It has some similar design qualities in Rockwell.

CLARENDON TYPEFACE

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN?

WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN ?

Graphic design is the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books. Graphic design is also a form of visual communication that could help us to sell something to someone and even to send message without using verbal communication.

Graphic design has several elements which are LINE, SHAPE, FORM, VALUE, COLOR, TEXTURE, and SPACE. A graphic design project may involve the stylization and presentation of existing text and either pre-existing images developed by the graphic designer. Artistic pieces can be incorporated in both traditional and digital form.

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: PICTOGRAPHY

PICTOGRAPHY

Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. In certain modern use, pictograms participate to a formal language.

Pictograph can be considered an art form, or a written language and are designated as such in Pre-Columbian art, Native American art, Ancirnt Mesapotamia and Painting in the Americas before Colonization. 

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: ICON

ICON

An icon is generally a flat panel painting depicting Jesus, Mary, saints and angles, which is venerated among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and in certain Eastern Catholic Churches. Icons may also be cast in metal, carved in stone embroidered on cloth, painted on wood, done in mosaic or fresco work, printed on paper or metal, etc. Icons are often illuminated with a candle or jar of oil with a wick. The illumination of religious images with lamps or candles is an ancient practice pre-dating Christianity.

Although common in translated works from Greek or Russian, in English icongraphy does not mean icon painting, and "icongrapher" does not mean an artists of icons, which are painted or carved, not "written" as they are in those languages. Comparable images from Western Christianity are generally not described as "icons", although "iconic" may be used to describe a static style of devotional.    

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: SYMBOL

SYMBOL

                                                         
A symbol is something used for regarded as representing something else. Symbols can also defined as a letter, figure, or other character or combination of letters or the like used to designate something. An object that represents, stands for an idea, visual image, or material entity is also defined symbols, Numerals are symbols for numbers, alphabetic letters are symbols for sounds, personal names are symbols representing individuals, and a red rose symbolize love and compassion. 

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: HIEROGLYPH

HIEROGLYPH      

A hieroglyph or sacred writing is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Hieroglyph inscribed with hieroglyphic symbols, which also a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning hard to read. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in away reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyps". In Neoplatonism, especially during the Renaissance, a "hieroglyph" was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which Neoplatonists believed actual Egyptian hieroglyphs to be. The word hieroglyphics may refer to a hieroglyphic script.