Graphic Design Survey Midterm

Code of Hammurabi

ca. 1750 BC

Trajan's Column

ca. 114 CE, Rome

Unicals

Speculum of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, 7th Century​

Kufic Quran

9th Century, North Africa​

Gutenberg Bible

Johannes Gutenberg, 1455

Allegory of Law and Grace

LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER, ca. 1530

Susaki Embankment with Canal

Ryuryuku Shinsai, 1800-1810​

Napoleon's March

Charles Joseph Minard, 1869

The Siege of Troy or TheGiant Horse of Sinon, Astley's Circus,

Anonymous, 1833

The Barefoot boy, Chromolithograph

Anonymous, after Eastman Johnson, 1867

Les Girard

Jules Cheret, 1879

The Nature of Gothic

William Morris, 1892

Bieres de la Meuse​

Alphonse Mucha, 1897

The Scottish Musical Review​

Charles Rennie Mackintosh​, 1896

Poster for Secession XIII​

Koloman Moser​, 1902

Simplicissimus​

Thomas Heine, 1897

AEG Lamp

Behrens, 1910

Priester Matches

Lucien Bernhard, 1905

Opel

Hans Rudi Erdt, 1911​

Daddy, What did YOU Doin the Great War?​

Savile Lumley​, 1915

Table of Contents, Dada 3

Tristan Tzara, July 1917

Map, London Underground

Harry C. Beck, 1931-33

Unicals

Curved, bulbous strokes of Es and Ms.​

Uniform letter-sizes and lack of intervals (scripto continua) derived from Roman letterforms.​

The term unical is derived from unica, the Latin word for "inch," because letters were usually one inch high.