Course Description
A comprehensive history of graphic design from antiquity until the present.
Athena Title
History of Graphic Design
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ADPR 3910, ARGD 3070E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course provides graphic design students the opportunity to explore the history of their chosen profession. Whenever possible, the historical perspective will be presented with relevance to the designer of the 2000's and thus should augment the student's practical design skills. Assessment of overall accomplishments is formulated during intense discussion at studio critiques occurring regularly throughout the semester. Students and instructor interact as a group during these critiques.
Topical Outline
This course will examine ideas that influence culture and society and how those ideas manifest themselves in the fields of graphic design. Advertising, illustration, and photography. Required text: A History of Graphic Design, Phillip B. Meggs.
Syllabus