Emerging from the psychological wreckage of World War I, the Dutch De Stijl movement sought to build a utopian society by reducing visual communication to its most pure, objective elements. Discover how visionaries like Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg used strict horizontal lines and primary colors to invent the asymmetrical grid that still rules modern editorial layout and UI/UX design today.
Traumatized by the senseless slaughter of World War I, a rebellious group of anti-war artists completely rejected the harmonious design grids of the past. Discover how the Dadaists weaponized scissors, glue, and visual nonsense to invent the photomontage, free typography from the horizontal line, and rewrite the rules of visual communication forever.
By the 1890s, graphic design was lost in a tangled, organic forest of twisting vines and dense Victorian clutter. Discover how a rebellious group of Scottish students and Austrian artists completely rejected nature’s chaotic curves to invent the modern design grid, the square page format, and the world’s very first unified lifestyle brand.
If you open your font menu today, you are looking at centuries of design history. Discover how the raw, heavy mechanics of Gutenberg’s printing press evolved into the refined, mathematically precise alphabets of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Emerging from the psychological wreckage of World War I, the Dutch De Stijl movement sought to build a utopian society...
Traumatized by the senseless slaughter of World War I, a rebellious group of anti-war artists completely rejected the harmonious design...
By the 1890s, graphic design was lost in a tangled, organic forest of twisting vines and dense Victorian clutter. Discover...
If you open your font menu today, you are looking at centuries of design history. Discover how the raw, heavy...
Long before Gutenberg developed the printing press, the foundations of the modern page were being masterfully engineered in the East....
In the tumultuous early 20th century, marked by a whirlwind of new inventions and a shift from agrarian to urban...
As the twentieth century unfolded, emerging artists sought inspiration beyond the intricate designs of the Victorian era, Art Nouveau, and...
The Art Nouveau movement, which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was characterized by its ornamental and...
As the 19th century unfolded, the city of Paris became a hotbed of optimism and creativity, fueled by a confluence...
In the mid to late 19th century, the technological change was a big driving force, just like today. The new...
While these developments were happening, the deskilling of the craftsman and manufacturing of mass-produced items, expansion of factories and even...
Before industrialization, things were made in small numbers, carrying the emotions and fingerprints of its creator as a result of...
In 1400s AD, after several years of focused experiments, Johannes Gutenberg made the system scalable and led the way for...
The history of graphic design begins with the cave paintings. The prehistoric humans were marking their daily lives or the...
Starting from a simple stone ax, throughout the history we created a man-made environment, to survive and control the world...