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Hi everyone! We have one more Design History article, talking about the postmodern movements. Many things happened in the art world after the second war. See the most important movements that are still reference for designers. document.getElementById(“post-4052-blankimage”).onload(); Follow me on Twitter | Subscribe by RSS feed or by Email

Today’s article from the Design History series talks about something we’re used to see all the time in our lives but we don’t really know how it began or expanded so much: advertising. It’s an important matter for designers, advertisers, companies and customers. Check that out. document.getElementById(“post-3984-blankimage”).onload();

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. document.getElementById(“post-3902-blankimage”).onload();

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. document.getElementById(“post-3519-blankimage”).onload();

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. document.getElementById(“post-3105-blankimage”).onload();

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. document.getElementById(“post-3017-blankimage”).onload();

We are starting a new series of articles about historical aspects of design. We are going to use the Design History as source of inspiration. Today our subject will be symbols. We have seen something about them in this article about semiotics. They are present in many aspects of our lives – in traffic signs, [...]