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The First Graphic Design Agency
Austria's Wiener Werkstatte was an organization where the first graphic design agency came from. The work from the agency inspired new styles like Bauhaus and Deco. https://99designs.com/blog/design-history-movements/history-graphic-design/ -
Bauhaus...?
The bauhaus followed off of the Weiner Werksatte's works to create an artistic ideal to sum up all the art forms into one piece of art. https://99designs.com/blog/design-history-movements/history-graphic-design/ -
That's What We Are! 0o0
William A. Dwiggins had used the term "graphic design" to explain what his role was as a book illustrator. This finally opened up a way to label these people with graphic designer roles. https://99designs.com/blog/design-history-movements/history-graphic-design/ -
Another Artist
Cassandre used geometric styles along with words to create a unison of artistic ideas. https://www.britannica.com/art/graphic-design/Graphic-design-in-the-20th-century -
Oud
The man Oud used his cafe building as a canvas and combined graphic design, architecture, and the stijl style. https://segd.org/graphic-design-architecture-20th-century-history -
A Building
Rockfeller Center was a building that was composed of many different and unique elements. The building had an art deco style to it by Raymond Hood. https://segd.org/graphic-design-architecture-20th-century-history -
Fonts
Stanley Morrison develops the famous typeface called "Times New Roman". The Times of London commissioned the typeface soon after. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
New Style
A new art style called Swiss was developed that uses techniques such as negative space, Sans - serif type, and asymmetry. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
Replace.
After a while, a movement begins replacing some old style techniques with more geometric ones. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
"Thoughts on Design"
The book, "Thoughts on Design" by the legendary graphic designer Paul Rand had a huge impact on soon to be graphic designers. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
Kitsch?
The new style kitsch is introduced that emphases high contrast, bold colors, fantastic imagery, and illustrations of dramatically posed figures, that were very popular with movie posters. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
More Fonts
Later on, Helvetica is developed by Max Miedinger and very soon becomes an extremely popular and standard typeface. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
New Trend?
A little time passes and the magazine, "Communication Arts" releases its first issue and soon becomes an industry basic. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
Psychedelic Style
The Psychedelic style is introduced featuring swirls, obscure fonts transformed into shapes, and bright colors. It was inspired by hallucinations. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527 -
Modern
Cinemagraphs are created to grab viewers' attention in the clutter of on-screen marketing. They are photographs with a small movement that is barely noticable. https://www.lifewire.com/key-moments-in-graphic-design-history-1697527
