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Thursday
07--Aug--2008
07--Aug--2008
How Thursday got it's name
(Thor's-day)
Jupiter/Jove (Zeus): son of Kronos/Rhea; Supreme god, Lord of Heaven (Olympus) and mortals
(Thor's-day)
Jupiter/Jove (Zeus): son of Kronos/Rhea; Supreme god, Lord of Heaven (Olympus) and mortals
Graphic design history
Graphic Design spans the history of humankind from the
caves of Lascaux to the dazzling neons of London City. In both this lengthy history
and in the relatively recent explosion of visual communication in the 20th and
21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring distinction and over-lapping of
advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they share many of the
same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the
same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale
of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information,
form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience."[2]
The paintings in the caves of Lascaux around 14,000 BC and the birth of written
language in the third or fourth millennium BC are both significant milestones
in the history of graphic design and other fields which hold roots to graphic
design. The Book of Kells is an early example of graphic design.It is a lavishly
decorated hand-written copy of the Gospels of the Christian Bible created by
Celtic monks around 800AD.From 1892 to 1896 William Morris' Kelmscott Press
published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products
of the Arts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating
books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium.
Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own
right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine
art.The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical
styles.This historicism was, however, important as it amounted to the first
significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design.
Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced
Art Nouveau and is indirectly responsible for developments in early twentieth
century graphic design in general.
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