ImaginGraphic - DESIGN HANDBOOKS

Between the 1920's and 30's some designers in Europe and the United States found it delightful to tell other designers how to design. During theses years of Modernism these designers were so sure that they have found the right way to design, they made detail manuals set out to spread their ideas to the world. The two most popular and influential books of their time were, W.A. Dwiggins Layout in Advertising and Jan Tschichold's Die Neue Typographic. They provided different formulas for transcending antiquated commercial art conventions.

Design manuals continued to be published today, perhaps with slightly less panache. Designers and those who thought about design continued to push their different truths, which evolved into rules, standards, styles, and mannerisms. The manual became a template for some kind of practices. As the years pass by new designers publish work on how to make design production easier, and more creative

Manifestos by Pandora

Provocative pronouncements by groups of artists tend to share one characteristic: they favor stark black-and-white typography. Many manifestos tend to look like ordinary pamphlets.

Diatribe by Filippo Marinetti looked like a plain newspaper article, and was printed in Le Figaro in 1909.

Le Figaro

Many manifestos expressed their philosophy using the typographical vocabulary of newspapers, with bold headlines and well-marked paragraphs. One important detail was always the list of signatories. The fact that these texts were endorsed by a group of artists is one reason why their layouts were not more distinctive. Whoever designed the manifestos had to be as neutral as possible.

Funny Faces - Team 1

Funny Faces

Funny faces is a way to catch peoples eyes by combinations of letterform and image. Funny letters and typefaces is things that are not normal. they want the letters and fonts to be different. They don't want the normal fonts.

this is an example of funny faces and funny fonts. this is different then other fonts because they have faces on them and different shapes.

this is the second example. this type of font is way different because the way the font is and the way the shapes are cut out.

Dream Team - Expression of Speed

Expression of Speed

With the invention of trains, planes and cars came a fetish for speed.Industrialization during the mid 19th century had introduced mass production.

Artist who were obsessed with the speed of these object made them into art.

Edward Mcknight Kauffer made imaging speed famous. he was Europe's most prolific advertising and graphic designers in the 1920's-30.

 

Team Awesome- Dust Jackets

A dust jacket is a removable cover for a bounded book. Originally dust jackets were plain paper wrappers with cut outs to reveal the title and author of the book. Later on they started to print more designs on the dust jackets for more advertising appeal.

This first picture shows a dust jacket that has a design on it to make it more appealing for sale and protects the book.



This second picture shows a plain dust jacket that is strictly used for protecting the book and would not help advertisment.

Team Ice- Ransom Notes

Ransom Notes got its name from the cliched style of cutout letters intended to hide the identity of the sender. Its roots are from the 19th century, when common job printers carelessly mixed disparate wood and metal type styles together on the same page.

The point of this style is creative unattachable way to send someone a message. This allows people to send letter without having to write it out. This style has transformed into something more than just a ransom note. it is used for cpommercials, art, magazines, and even Ads.

Supreme Geometry by Chanel Flyers

                 

Russian painter Kasimir Malevich is the founder of the art movement Suprematism, and was inspired by Cuban artist and sculptors. Malevich thought that the black square was the perfect icon and used it in much of his work. He felt that he could display different impressions through the interaction of squares, triangles, and circles. Malevich passion for the black square influenced constructivists, the De Stijl neoplasticists such as Zwart, and the Bauhaus minimalists. To this day artists and designers reference his work into their new modernized pieces becuase the black square has yet to go out of style.