Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C-" or better in (ART 2205 AND ART 2206 AND ART 2207) AND (Full major status in Graphic Design OR Emphasis in Illustration).
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.