Graphic design history

Crossed Legs in 1930s Shanghai: How'Modern'the Modern Woman?

by Francesca Dal Lago

East Asian History 19 (June 2000): 103-144.

ICOHTEC Travel Grants to Barcelona Symposium

by Timo Myllyntaus

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Guidelines

The ICOHTEC Board will make available a limited number of grants for graduates,... more .
Guidelines

The ICOHTEC Board will make available a limited number of grants for graduates, post-graduates and young researchers who are giving papers or present posters at the 2012 ICOHTEC Symposium Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture in Catalonia, Spain 10-14 July 2012. Special preference will be given to students and young researchers from developing countries as well as Eastern and Central European countries in transition who are not able to receive sufficient financial support from their home countries or sponsors in other countries.

These travel grants are not intended to provide the full costs associated with attending the symposium; they are meant as an encouragement, not a full subsidy.

Eligibility: ICOHTEC Travel Grants will be awarded to students or young researchers, travel costs and accommodation costs of whom have not been covered by some sponsors.

The Travel Grant of 350 euro is to be used to cover bus/train/flight tickets, lodging and/or regis-tration fee. Reimbursement will be made after presenting paper or poster and proving the student’s or young researcher status by an appropriate document (Student’s ID or supervisor’s/professor’s letter).

Application forms should be sent to the President as email attachments or by ordinary mail. Applications for support must include personal contact information, an estimate on travel, registration and accommodation costs, title of the paper/poster to be presented and a short CV. An application form may be downloaded from the ICOHTEC web site at:
http://www.icohtec.org/resources-prizes.html.

Deadline: Applications with appendices should be submitted by 26 March, 2012. Submissions via email are requested and preferred.

James Williams
President
101 Lake Winnemissett Drive
Deland FL 32724 USA
techjunc@gmail.com

Borderline graphics: an analysis of Cinema Marginal posters

by Priscila Farias

Co-authored with Regina Wilke, presented at the Design History Society Annual Conference 2011: 'Design Activism and Social Change', Barcelona (Spain)

This paper presents a study on Brazilian Cinema
Marginal film posters. It identifies the political and more This paper presents a study on Brazilian Cinema
Marginal film posters. It identifies the political and
cultural context of the posters production, and
considers their graphic, communicative and
meaningful aspects.
In 1968, the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5) comes into
force in Brazil, and, for the next ten years, the
country is haunted by the most violent period of
military dictatorship. Cinema Marginal has its
heyday between 1968 and 1973, a period marked
by the military regime (1964-1985). Such films
portray the spirit of that era in dissimilar ways
that alternate between eroticism, horror,
romance and suspense, often with political
messages in subtext. Its main shared
characteristics are the subversion of cinematic
language and experimental attitude. Such films
interact with avant-garde theatre, visual arts and
Brazilian popular music, especially with the
Tropicalia movement, setting up a privileged
moment of creation, despite the sombre political
framework.

Wim Crouwel

by Kerry William Purcell

The Thackeray Alphabet

by Kerry William Purcell

British Football Programmes

by Kerry William Purcell

Alphabet & Image

by Kerry William Purcell

The Art of Psychographics

by Kerry William Purcell

Published in Baseline Magazine, and on The Design Observer site.

School Exercise Books: A Complex Source for a History of the Approach to Schooling and Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Juri Meda

Posibilidades de la imagen en la comunicación. Activación de las visiones.

by Carmen Virginia Grisolía

Co-authored with: María Alejandra Ochoa , Jhonatan Medina Caguana, Ebelice Toro.
Presented as a conference in 1er ENCUENTRO DE HISTORIA Y ESTUDIOS DEL DISEÑO, Sentando bases para las historias del diseño en Venezuela. Published in the Memoir Book of the conference: Libro de Memorias. Universidad de Los Andes, PROdiseño. Caracas, Venezuela. ISBN. 978-980-11-1163-4. Caracas, Venezuela. December, 2006.

This paper presents a vision of the Faculty of Art´s birth within the Universidad de Los Andes history, told from the... more This paper presents a vision of the Faculty of Art´s birth within the Universidad de Los Andes history, told from the perspective of its founders and, also, within the interdsiciplinarity between art and design, practiced by the Group of Interdisciplinary Applied Acitivities of the Arts and Design School of this Faculty.

Códigos urbanos. Lenguajes visuales de la ciudad. Caso: Mérida (Urban Codes. Visual Languages in the city. Csse: Mérida)

by Carmen Virginia Grisolía

Published in FERMENTUM. Revista Venezolana de Sociología y antropología, Vol. 19, Núm. 54, enero-abril, 2009, pp. 48-78. Universidad de los Andes. Venezuela

Las ciudades como objetos de conocimiento interdisciplinar se pueden interpretar como constructos teóricos... more Las ciudades como objetos de conocimiento interdisciplinar se pueden interpretar como constructos teóricos susceptibles de caracterización y personalización. Es así que el término identidad ha sido comúnmente asociado al de ciudad, entendiendo la identidad urbana como el resultado de una multiplicidad de factores (sociales, arquitectónicos, culturales, espaciales, etc.) que intervienen y modelan las urbes y, a la vez, construyen dicha identidad. La revisión de estos agentes o factores de multiculturalidad presentes en la ciudad mediante el estudio de ciertas categorías de percepción ciudadana dentro de los elementos constitutivos de lenguajes visuales, así como el estudio de un corpus visual definido a partir de imágenes recolectadas de la ciudad de Mérida, ha permitido constituir un imaginario de esta ciudad por medio del cual es posible erigir simbólicamente una definición y una identificación. En este proyecto de investigación se ha examinado un código visual alternativo de la identidad urbana de la ciudad de Mérida, concretado en el desarrollo de una taxonomía abierta a partir del hallazgo de patrones en el lenguaje visual.

(Cities, understood as interdisciplinary objects of knowledge, are capable of being interpreted as theoretical constructions of characterization and personalization. It is so, that the expression identity has commonly been associated to the term city, understanding the urban identity as a result of multiple factors (social, architectural, cultural, spatial, etc.) that intervene and shape the cities and, simultaneously, build such identity. The review of these issues or multicultural factors in the city throughout the study of certain categories of citizen perception within the constitutive elements of visual languages, as well as the study of a visual corpus constructed since collected images from the city of Mérida, has allowed to construct its visual imagery, which has raised a symbolic definition and identification. In this research it is been examined an alternative visual code of urban identity of Mérida, concreted in the development of an open taxonomy since the patterns in the visual language).

The cultural context of contemporary graphic design

by Inge Economou

Published In:
2003, South African Journal of Art History. No. 18, pp. 15–27.

Graphic design in the contemporary era (postmodernity) seems to be in a state of diversity and pluralism as designers... more Graphic design in the contemporary era (postmodernity) seems to be in a state of diversity and pluralism as designers produce work without any unifying stylistic or theoretical principles. Although designers frequently draw inspiration from stylistic and attitudinal trends at a street culture level in order to produce designs that have market appeal (to economic ends), seldom do they take the time to analyse contemporary culture at a theoretical level. As a result contemporary graphic designs often emerge as empty consumerist styling that celebrates the "postmodern moment" in contemporary culture, or alternatively as a rational, simplified, objectively planned approach that resists the status quo in favour of earlier modernist approaches. This essay, as a theoretical investigation of contemporary culture, attempts to contextualize graphic design within this culture, by analysing its main features and characteristics as highlighted by leading cultural theorists. This is done in order to encourage graphic designers to become more self-aware and to reflect critically on the work that they produce.

Breaking the Canon for the Future of Graphic Design History through Feminist Methodologies Research, and Development of a PBL Course Model

by Renessa Ciampa-Brewer

Pierre Émile Levasseur (1828-1911) À L'Interface Des Sciences Sociales

by Gilles PALSKY

Advertising Ready-Made Style: The Evidence of the Stationers' Hall Archive

by Clare Rose

"L'age de l'affiche: Critics, Collectors and Urban Contexts"

by Karen Carter

Published in Toulouse-Lautrec and the French Imprint: Sources and Legacies of Fin-de-Siècle Posters, Paris – Brussels – Barcelona, ed. Phillip Dennis Cate (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art, 2005). exhibition catalogue

Phillip Dennis Cate curated the exhibition, which traveled to the following venues: the Birmingham Museum and Art... more Phillip Dennis Cate curated the exhibition, which traveled to the following venues: the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England (April 8 – June 19, 2006), the Museum of the City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (Summer 2006), and The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey (Spring 2007).
The catalog also includes essays by Carmen Vendelin and Sara Bujanda Bujanda.

Τυπογραφική επιμέλεια, από τον Μουσούρο στο internet

by klimis mastoridis

Editorial problems / published by the "Center of Neo-Hellenic Studies" / Athens 2002

The first greek typographic school

by klimis mastoridis

"Hyphen, a typographic forum", 1998

The loneliness of greek typography; myth or reality?

by klimis mastoridis

DIDOT conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992 / "Hyphen, a typographic forum", 1999

Cutting and casting greek types in the nineteenth and twentieth century

by klimis mastoridis

Gutenberg Jahrbuch 2006, pp.306-341