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Masters of Art Nouveau: Innovators of Elegance and Form
The Art Nouveau movement, which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was characterized by its ornamental and organic designs. Here are some of the leading…
Art Nouveau: Unraveling 19th-Century Parisian Streets
As the 19th century unfolded, the city of Paris became a hotbed of optimism and creativity, fueled by a confluence of factors: peace, prosperity, and an increase in…
Victorian Age and The Birth of Advertising
In the mid to late 19th century, the technological change was a big driving force, just like today. The new inventions were deeply changing how people live and…
Arts and Crafts Movement
While these developments were happening, the deskilling of the craftsman and manufacturing of mass-produced items, expansion of factories and even growing cities, a reaction emerged in the late…
The invention of printing press
In 1400s AD, after several years of focused experiments, Johannes Gutenberg made the system scalable and led the way for a mass produced printing industry with his Printing…
An introduction to the history of graphic design
The history of graphic design begins with the cave paintings. The prehistoric humans were marking their daily lives or the things that they valued, as paintings on the…
Why we need design
Starting from a simple stone ax, throughout the history we created a man-made environment, to survive and control the world we are living in and designed tools with…