CTS LECTURE 2- Graphic Design: A Medium for the Masses

• Graphics through the ages - 'Bison and Horses' (15,000-10,000 BC) cave painting - communicating through visuals when people couldn't speak
• Giotto di Bondore, betrayed, (1305) Fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua Italy
• we're an illustrative society
• john Everrett Millias, Bubbles (1866) pear soup ad
• you can't just put text with a fine art image
• (1922) William Addison Dwiggins
• 'in the matter of layout forget art at the start and use HORSE SENSE'
• Herbert Spencer
• Paul rand
• Richard Hollis
• Max Bill and Josef Muller-Brockman
• Steven Heller
• Henri de Toulouse-Lantrec - artslide Bruant
• La Goulve
• Alphonse Mucha, job (1898) poster for cigarettes
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Scottish musical review
• Peter Behrens, AEG (1910)
• Saville Lumley, Daddy poster (1915)
• Alfred Leete, 'Britons' poster - Propaganda - affected by the era and lifestyle
• James Montgomery Flagg, 'We Want You' poster - "     "     "     "       "
• Wassily Kandinsky - Geometric representation - "   "    "    "    "
• El Lezzitsky
• Simon Patterdon (1967-), 'The Great Bear' (1992), Lithograph on paper
• Oskar Schlemmer (German), Bauhaus logo, (1992)
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Russian)
• Herbert Bayer (1926 poster) Kandinsky's 60th birthday exhibition
• Herbert Matter (Swiss) (1932-34 posters) Swiss tourist board
• A.M. Cassandre (French)
• Tom Purvis (UK), LNER (1937) poster
• Ludwig Hohlwien
• Ludwig Vierthaleo
• Hans Schleger
• Josep Renau
• Pere Catala; Pic ART HOLE
• Abraham Games (1942)
• Paul Rand (1946)
• Neville Bordy 'The Face Magazine'
• David Carson 'Ray gun Magazine' - Don't mistake communication for legibility or the other way round
• Grunge era
• Helmit Krone for Doyle Dane Berbach, think small V Wad (1959)
• Saul Bass poster designs for Hitchcock films
• Ken Garland - first things first manifesto - basically saying there's more things to life than just advertising shit products.
• F.H.K Henrion, stop nuclear suicide posters (1960)
• Q. And Babies? A. And Babies. (does the text make it a strong image on its own or does it need context?)
• Peter Saville FAC001, the factory club night poster (Factory Records in Manchester) turned up 2 days late with the design - trying to get out of the restrictions of music
• New Order, Blue Monday sleeve design (1983) - best selling 12" record
• Peter Blake, band aid 'Do They Know Its Christmas? (1984)
• Chumba wumba, pictures of starving children sell records
• always question if it's good graphic design or bad graphic design
• Julian House
• Mark Forrow
• style over function?
• innovation over practicality?
• Johnathan Barnbrook, bastard typeface and plympukes
• Naomi Klien, truth in advertising, 2000
• Oliviero Toscani, Benetton adverts (1990-1992) clothing ads
• Barbara Kruger ' I Shop Therefore I Am' (1987)