Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C" or better in (DESGR 1100 AND DESGR 1600) AND Emphasis in Graphic Design.
Corequisites: DESGR 2200.
Description
An overview of the history of graphic communication. Topics covered include: the invention of the written language, the origin of printing, graphic design in the Renaissance and Victorian eras, Art Nouveau, Pictorial Modernism, International Typographic Style, Post-Modernism, contemporary conceptual and new wave movements. Emphasis is on the Post-Art Nouveau eras.