Author: lindamayoux

  • History of book design

      Book Design History The language and terminology we use in book design today stems from early Egyptian books. Origins The earliest forms of books were scrolls produced by Egyptian scribes over 4,000 years ago. Images and vertical text were hand-drawn onto palm leaves, then later onto papyrus scrolls. Papyrus was made from the pith of…

  • Neville Brody

    Neville Brody

    Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957 in London) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. Influenced by Punk, Dada and Pop Art. He is the  Head of the Communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of Art. In 1988 Thames & Hudson published the first of two volumes about his work, which…

  • Varvara Stepanova

    Google images Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) Russian painter, photographer and designer. She was influential as member of the Russian avant-garde movement and, later in her career, she would refer to herself as a constructivist. Her work shows a direct influence of the Cubists and the Futurist art movements and she spent her career dedicated to trying…

  • Constructivism

    Constructivist typography  Google images A movement with origins in Russia, Constructivism was primarily an art and architectural movement. It rejected the idea of art for arts’ sake and the traditional bourgeois class of society to which previous art had been catered. Instead it favored art as a practise directed towards social change or that would…

  • Jan Tschichold

    Jan Tschichold

    JanTschichold (1902- 1974) was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. Modernism Tschichold became a convert to Modernist design principles in 1923 after visiting the first Weimar Bauhaus exhibition. He wrote an influential 1925 magazine supplement; then had a 1927 personal exhibition. Die neue Typographie  Google images a manifesto of his theories of modern design and codified many other Modernist…

  • Modernism

    Modernism in design and architecture emerged in the aftermath of the First World War and the Russian Revolution – a period when the artistic avant-garde dreamed of a new world free of conflict, greed and social inequality. It was not a style but a loose collection of ideas. Many different styles can be characterised as…

  • Eric Gill

    Eric Gill

  • Paul Rand

    Paul Rand

  • Dan Eldon

    Dan Eldon

  • Sara Fanelli

    Sara Fanelli