Design History

The Kelmscott Press

The Story of the Glittering Plain

William Morris typeface design

American Arts & Crafts Exhibition

The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Ukiyo-e

Paris Métro Entrances – Hector Guimard

Eugene Grasset / Sarah Bernhardt Poster

Moulin Rouge. Toulouse-Lautrec

Gismonda. Alphonse Mucha

German Jugendstil

Hôtel Tassel interior in Brussels. Art nouveau

Jugend Magazine – Munich (1896–1940)

Glasgow School of Art – Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The Craftsman magazine

Chicago & Frank Lloyd Wright

Maison de l’Art Nouveau

The Golden Age of the Poster (late 19th-century)

Jules Chéret, father of the modern poster

“The Four”: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald, James Herbert MacNair

The Hill House, designed by Mackintosh

The Vienna Secession

The Vienna Secession Ausstellung

Gustav Klimt

Ver Sacrum Magazine

Wiener Werkstätte

Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (1925)

Vintage air compressor

The American Skyscrapers: Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center

Art Deco in the home

Art Deco materials & streamlining

Art Deco graphic design

A. M. Cassandre poster

E. McKnight Kauffer

Art Deco revival

Gino Severini “The Pan Pan at the Monico”, futurism

Girl with a Mandolin - Pablo Picasso, cubism

Factory at Horta de Ebro - Pablo Picasso, cubism

Dada

Dada

Dada - photomontage

Tristan Tzara - dada

Kurt Schwitters - dada

Theo van Doesburg

Gino Severini - Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, futurism

Le Figaro - Futurist Manifesto

Giacomo Balla

Fortunato Depero

De Stijl

Rietveld Chair

Theo Van Doesburg

Piet Mondrian

Schröder House

Constructivism

El Lissitzky

Alexander Rodchenko

Vladimir Tatlin “The Monument to the Third International”

The Bauhaus at Weimar

László Moholy-Nagy

Bauhaus 1923 Exhibition

The Bauhaus at Dessau

Marcel Breuer Wassily Chair

Marianne Brandt. Teapot.

Anni Albers

The Ulm School of Design

Jan Tschichold & the New Typography

The Isotype Movement

New approaches to photography

WW1 propaganda poster

WW1 propaganda poster

WW1 propaganda poster

WW1 propaganda poster

WW1 propaganda poster

WW2 propaganda poster

Hitler as god-like figure

Allied propaganda - WW2

Allied propaganda - WW2

James Montgomery Flagg posters

Loose Lips Sink Ships

Humorous portrayal of Hitler

Plastics, molded plywood, fiberglass

Walter Teague

Charles & Ray Eames

Golden age of advertising

Levittown

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Armin Hofmann

Théo Ballmer

Ernst Keller

Paul Rand’s logos

Saul Bass

Bradbury Thompson

The New Advertising

Carl Dair & a National Type “Cartier”

Early Canadian Red Ensign. Based on the British Red Ensign

Later Canadian Red Ensign variant. More provinces added

The last official Canadian Red Ensign. Simplified shield

Modern Canadian flag. Since 1965

Ernst Roch

Rolf Harder

Georges Huel and Pierre-Yves Pelletier at Gottschal