Tuesday, December 11, 2012

A Quick Peruse of History

Beatus of Fernando and Sancha
Illuminated Manuscript
1047 CE

Albrecht Dürer
Printing Press/German Illustration
1515

Rand and Avery Foundry
Typefaces in the Industrial Revolution
1867

Eadweard Muybridge
Early Photography (Sequence)
1883

 Siegfried Bing
Imitation of Japanese Woodcuts, leading to Art Nouveau
1888

The Beggarstaffs
Pictorial Modernism
1896


 Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen
Art Nouveau
1897

 Currier Lithograph Co.
Chromolithography Advertising
1899

The Craftsman, Artist Unknown
Arts and Crafts Movement
1915

Edward Penfield
Pictorial Modernism
1917

 Vladimir Vasilevich Lebedev
De Stigl
1928

Alexey Brodovitch/Herbert Matter
Modern Photography
1940
 
Paul Rand
The New York School
1940

Josef Müller-Brockmann
International Typographic Style
1954
 Victor Moscoso
Conceptual
1967

Waldemar Swierzy
Conceptual
1974

Michael Manwaring
Postmodern Design
1984

April Greiman
Digital Revolution, Print
1987

 Aaron Koblin
Digital Revolution, Interactive
2005

Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Digital Revolution, Portable Devices
2010
(I tried to find a moving gif of the peony opening but the internet searches haven't figured out how to let me do that yet - it's probably on tumblr somewhere but tumblr tag searching is sadly lacking in the specificity needed to find it)

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