Here it goes one of the most expected articles from de design history series: The Bauhaus. Let’s see how everything begun, its artists, its influences and many things about the first big school of design, that means so much for us.
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Slab Serifs have been emerging as a nice trend, used in casual and dynamic layouts. I L-O-V-E them, so expressive and strong, combined with high contrasts they can make a layout pop. Hope you enjoy them, too.
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From the last business card pack, here it is in another color scheme: Red!
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One of the most popular posts on this blog is 30 Free Tree Silhouettes. But since they are in vector format for the vectorial kind of guy (or girl) we decided to offer them in a Photoshop brush version, for the bitmappish type of guy (or girl). So here are 20 HQ Tree photoshop Brushes.
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In this second part of posters’ history we can notice the graphic and ideological evolution that happened after the discovery of new techniques and uses.
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In the follow-up of historical series posts, based on the design history, we are going to see about posters. They have been largely used since a long time ago and have an important historical function. There are important political issues and also important marks for advertising. Let’s learn more about the historical aspect of the posters.
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After the great feedback and suggestions we had with the post “70 designers that changed the world”, we decided to make another list with your suggestions. So, here are more 30 great designers, architects, artists.
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If we go deeper in design history we can notice that many of the styles, techniques and visual languages we see today are inspired by avant-garde art movements. They were so important for breaking rules, exploration, imagination, that they are still reference for designers from all over the world. That’s what we are going to see in this article of our historical series, again based on the Design History.
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Previously we saw the “Part I: Handwritten type” here. Now, the last part of this article talks about what happened when printed type turned up, making a big historical change, discarding the need of scribes. Imagine yourself as a scribe at that time see your life work being substituted by machines.
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In a former post we talked about history of symbols. Now, in order to proceed our historical article series, we’re going to learn more about handwritten type and its evolution. From handwriting to printed type. It’s interesting to think how hard was it to write a book in days of old.
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