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He created a letter type that reflected the rule of the King
Geoffroy Tory
He made asterisks, so it would establish how the language was spoken correctly.
Geoffroy Tory
He made the creation of the kings letter-type an art and a skill.
Geoffroy Tory
The connection lies in the connection to the church and divinity.
Geoffroy Tory
What is this?
Champs Fleury (The Field of Flowers, 1523-1529
He was the first royal typographer.
Geoffroy Tory
He suggests that there is an underlying mathematical understanding in nature.
Geoffroy Tory
Clarity and simplicity was his aim and desire
Geoffroy Tory
After his death led to the founding of the French Academy
Geoffroy Tory
France's greatest type designer.
Geoffroy Tory
Letters where based on the human body, much like Da Vinci's study of them.
Geoffroy Tory
The field of flowers was 10x10 units
Geoffroy Tory
“there is a natural logic in spoken words.”
Geoffroy Tory
Added asterisks to the letters so that words were pronounced correctly.
Geoffroy Tory
The diacritical marks are?
asterisks are the marks for proper pronunciation of the french language.
The Crible letter is?
the letter type that reflects the rule of the king.
Describe the Effect of printing and typography have on handwriting?
created a new high standard for handwriting
These were created for the pope and used to create a handwritten looking typography for children.
Granjon's “characters de civilite” or Characters of Civility
What company used letters that are used and worn down?
Oxford University Press in England
Who was the Oxford Universities. Typographer and what did he create?
Peter de Walpergen [The Fell Types]
Who was authorized by the church to buy decommissioned letter sets?
John Fell
Who went to Netherlands and hired 4 typographers for their skills?
Oxford University Press in England
Who continued tradition of royal typography?
Chez Didot in France: A family dynasty of printers, publishers, paper makers & type founders
Who was the founder of Didot Type Foundry?
Francois Didot
What type foundry was a family business?
Chez Didot in France: A family dynasty of printers, publishers, paper makers & type founders
Once its founded they start branching out, different family members specialize in different things.
Chez Didot in France: A family dynasty of printers, publishers, paper makers & type founders
What type foundry used a neo-classical form of print?
Chez Didot in France: A family dynasty of printers, publishers, paper makers & type founders
What foundry found a constant supply of paper?
Chez Didot in France: A family dynasty of printers, publishers, paper makers & type founders
What foundry and under whom went back to classical works?
Works produced under Pierre Didot [head of printing office]
Who was the creator of the Stereotype?
Firmin Didot
Who created the Painters' Journal?
Firmin Didot
What did the Painters' Journal do?
It was a catalog for clients to indicate want
When was the Painters' Journal created?
1835
What type of machine allowed for a smaller labor investment ?
Didot Typecasting Machine
What is a Stereotype?
Cast plate: metal piece of type eg. forms
What were the early forms of mechanized printing presses?
Iron press machine that was financed by Lord Stanhope
standardization efforts by people such as François Didot and Pierre Simon Fournier?
Didot created Stereotype, which were molds that were created from one plate.
Fournier gave a point system and names to letter sizes.
Later machines used roller which required...
less effort and higher speed of printing per hour.
The machines made it so that typesetting and printing used..?
less labor time & effort.
What is this?
Friedrich Koenig's double cylinder steam-powered press 1814
Who invented the double cylinder steam-powered press?
Friedrich Koenig
When was the double cylinder steam-powered press created?
1814
When was the double cylinder steam-powered press created?
1814
What press could print 400 pages per hour?
Friedrich Koenig's double cylinder steam-powered press 1814
Who later invented a cylinder plate to print more impressions?
Friedrich Koenig
What key innovations were introduced by the linotype press [name 5}?
enabled 1 operator to be:
1. machinist
2. typesetter
3. justifer
4. type founder
5. type distributor
What did the Linotype press produce?
Bars of type instead of individual letters.
What was the greatest invention since the printing press and who invented it?
Ottmar Mergenthaler's
Blower Linotype [1886],
[the first line-casting keyboard typesetter]
When was the Linotype machine created?
1886
What was the main innovation of Lord Stanhope's printing press?
Iron allows for the machine to last longer.
What kind of press was created so that wouldn't get worn out quickly?
The Stanhope cast iron printing press (1800, underwritten by Lord Stanhope)
What press only took one stroke to print a page?
The Stanhope cast iron printing press (1800, underwritten by Lord Stanhope)
As the Stanhope Iron printing press doubled in speed, what other innovation did this allow?
the printing plate also doubled in size, and allowed for less time & labor costs.
What was the main innovation of Friedrich Koenig's double-cylindered steam-powered press and when was it made?
SPEED! 400 pages per hour
2nd version could print 1100 per hour,
later invented a cylinder plate to print more impressions
made in 1814
Used printing technology to create fat-face for posters
Fat face & Slab face typesetter [Robert Thorne 1821]
Used the understanding that the brain will complete information of type.
Fat face & Slab face typesetter [Robert Thorne 1821]
Type can be seen from a great distance and still be read.
Fat face & Slab face typesetter [Robert Thorne 1821]
creates a architectural logic to the letter forms.
Vincent Figgins Slab-serif letter forms [1815]
This letter forms feel substantial and important
Vincent Figgins Slab-serif letter forms [1815]
Considered Britain's contribution to typography.
Vincent Figgins Slab-serif letter forms [1815]
What types of graphic design were produced in nineteenth-century America?
The “little bits” of the Victorian era
used in diary’s and scrapbooks
Newspaper advertisements using lithography [writing in stone] were used when?
nineteenth-century America
When were Photographic element that were drawn and then printed?
nineteenth-century America
When were X-mas cards started to be made and sold? what was used to make these?
nineteenth-century America
They used lithography presses to make these.
When were Finer art quality cards were made as advertisement
These cards were collected.
19th cen. America
What and who did this?
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
This is An example of a 19th cen. chromatography print,
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
What method was used to make this and when was it made?
Chromolithography print made at the time of civil war
this served with a poem for our country “healing” or giving hope
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
A poem card that put a positive spin on American life
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
Poem Card by John Green leaf Whittier
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
Example of a print were lines start to blur between commercial printing and fine art-quality
After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]
What was a limitation of 19th cen. printing?
Color had not been standardized yet
for 19th cen. printed material, what training was a worker likely to have had?
Artists worked on there own/company, and then would give the work to the printer.
Lithography?
printing using a stone or a metal plate. [low cost method of publishing]
How was Lithography used?
newspaper advertisements and poster using just black. Big block letter like fat face and slab- serif types.
Who used Lithography in the 19th cen.?
Thorne & Figgins type faces like slab and flat face serifs
Chromolithography?
making multicolored prints. Usually with done with the use of chemicals.
What type of print is After Eastman Johnson, Barefoot Boy [1867]?
chromatography print
Why was Victorian “Beautiful little bits” [Prang 1880] made?>
direct market for people who cut out and save little things of printed material
What was Victorian “Beautiful little bits” [Prang 1880] used for?
Cut outs into Victorian scrapbooks/ diary’s
What is “once you put something into words, they become alive”
19th cen. Printed material
“Knowledge is spread by the ______ _______.”
19th cen. Printed material
What is “A word as a living thing” and give an exmaple
makes sense that Gutenberg created something that everyone could recognize like the bible. 19th cen. Printed material
What is this talking about? “People felt a big connection to the divine with increased ownership of Bibles.”
19th cen. Printed material
What facilitated Protestant reformation?
19th cen. Printed material
Why did Martin Luther challenged the church?
19th cen. Printed material] because they were printing things that were used to buy forgiveness.
What is Printed Indulgence?
purchasable forgiveness notes.
Who had access to print media, and how was this different than in previous eras
Usually the rich had access to printed media in previous eras, print media began to be available to the masses
Also religious clergy and high political figures had access to what?
print media
It was very expensive to make and buy.
print media
Previous to this era hand only handwritten and hand drawn manuscripts or illuminated manuscripts.
print media
What did William Morris revive as far as style?
Gothic revival
Who had inspired “art-quality” printing?
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
Creates Golden typeface which “looked pretty on the page”.
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
Chaucer and Troy typeface, who created these and what style are they examples of?
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press and example of blackletter
He wrote about how we need to respect workers.
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
What historical era and social ideas contribute to the typography and design of the Kelmscott press books? (Be sure to include dates in all answers.)
Gothic Era = or the Gothic revival.
For example
1896 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
1476 Jenson typeface in the Historia Natualis was the inspiration for [Golden typeface]
Who or what were The Beggarstaffs?
The Beggarstaffs were brothers-in-law James Pryde and William Nicholson.
They opened an advertising design studio in 1894.
The Beggarstaffs
were known for their new technique, collage, using cut pieces of paper moved around on a board leaving a figure incomplete for the viewer to decipher.
The Beggarstaffs
Who used the most aggressive simplification of work in the era?
The Beggarstaff Brothers
William Nicholson and James Pryde
Who used effective image related to text?
The Beggarstaff Brothers
William Nicholson and James Pryde
What is the Art Nouveau?
Art Nouveau mean “New Art”
fresh and vibrant style is what art?
Art Nouveau
allegory of artist inspiration is what art style?
Art Nouveau
What art style has energy of line-casting?
art Nouveau
What art style demonstrated a kind of sexual vitality?
art Nouveau
What is Jugendstil?
German for "youth style" or art Nouveau
“the design should fit its premise”
Jules Chéret
“the design must suit its purpose"
Jules Chéret
A very famous poster designer
Jules Chéret
He trains as a lithographic apprentice in France
Jules Chéret
As people bring him work and he translates them into color
Jules Chéret
He goes to England, and designs label and advertisements for a perfume company
Jules Chéret
He was best known work was promoting music
Jules Chéret
He makes something that is rich and evocative but does not have a visual form
Jules Chéret
This poster demonstrated the excitement of the city street
Jules Cheret [poster for Paris production of Orphee aux Enfers]
This poster helped who assert himself as an legitimate artist?
Jules Cheret [poster for Paris production of Orphee aux Enfers]
This poster expressed emotion of how you will have a good time
Jules Cheret for Elysee Montmarte bal Masque
What was the difference between Toulouse-Lautrec & Jules Cheret?
Cheret used Lithography [prints made with stone]. Lautrec did art prints in a commercial format.
This person presented Art Nouveau to America.
Will Bradley
This person presented Art Nouveau to America.
Will Bradley
his poster had multiple forms & overlapping figures
Victor Bicycles | Bradley
Name 2 books that Bradley took inspiration from.
Cover for Inland Printer →
The Grammar of Ornament 1856 →
Who was most prominent graphic design in the 1890's?
William Bradley
What designer was known for using British liner designs in his work?
William Bradley
Who was known for using curved figures and elongated proportions in his work?
William Bradley
He was a consultant to the American Type Foundry.
William Bradley
This designer embraced A&C Movement and art Nouveau.
William Bradley
He was the most prominent maker of poster and book covers in the 19th cen.
William Bradley
He was a self taught graphic designer.
William Bradley
He helped raise the standards and requirements of graphic design.
William Bradley
What artist did Harper's 1897 & Lippincott's 1895 magazines have influence from? And why?
overlapping elements & the art Nouveau line.
This artist worked for what magazine and this was a great value of pictures for the home?
The Chap Book [Will Bradley]
What were considered “polite novels” and something that embraced with great sentiment?
The Chap Book [Will Bradley]
What was collected for its simple & in-expensive ornament?
The Chap Book [Will Bradley]
He drew direct inspiration from living nature.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
This made Bradley's work popular.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
He toke out the erotic tension out of this art movement.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
This artist uses the same line in art Nouveau.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
This person was hosted in many galleries because of this influence.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
He is designed for a series of printing companies within this influence.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
He tried to present something that is cutting edge.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
He had precision of color separation in his art.
Will Bradley took influence from Art Nouveau.
What is this and when was it made?
Bradley, “The poet and his Lady,” [1895]
in the Chap book.
Bradley, “The poet and his Lady,” [1895]
in the Chap book was inspired by whom?
William Morris's Gothic theme
Who was mixing and matching different styles, which was a broader appreciation for experimentation?
Bradley, “The poet and his Lady,” [1895]
Who took a colonial influence and copied in in illustration in the chap books? →
Will Bradley
Who or what was "The Four"?
Margaret MacDonald
Frances MacDonald
Herbert MacNair
Charles Mackintosh
Who introduced the oversize poster?
The Four
Who were students at Glasgow? Please give names.
Margaret MacDonald
Frances MacDonald
Herbert MacNair
Charles Mackintosh
Who was best known out of “The Four”?
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Who had the same concept as Cheret, “the design should fit its premise?”
The Four
His design went from observation of nature to geometric style and then to textile design.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
With The four, name 5 things that were the same in all there work.
1. bold simple line that define flat planes of color.
2. a rising verticality [overall exemplify on vertical lines] all of the elements are extended
3. integration of flowing curves with rectangular structure
4. use of religious iconography
5. use of symbolism
This institution served to provide a world where difficulties of the industrial age could be banished.
The Glasgow School of Art & the Celtic Revival
What institution was a democratizing force?
The Glasgow School of Art & the Celtic Revival
Who wanted to establish their art as a national tradition?
the four
What were the colors of Scottish Identity movement?
green, purple, indigo
They were strongly influenced by Celtic Art [ medieval art]
Celtic Manuscripts & The Four
They were a mix of pagan and Christian styles
Celtic Manuscripts & The Four
These artists had a tenancy to mix curved forms with geometric structures.
Celtic Manuscripts & The Four
His work appears weightier.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
His work has elements of sex in floral combination
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
What is rising verticality, and who used it?
a line that draws your eye upwards, The four mostly.
How can we differentiate between Scottish poster and the Vienna Succession?
Look to the language. it will name them
Who brought over Scottish work to exhibitions?
Germans
Who used figures that took on a “spooky style”?
Vienna Succession
Who used a circular or round form that sits in a square at the top of the drawing?
the four
Who used the same framing information in their art?
Vienna Succession
What was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Succession?
Gustav] Klimt
What organization thought “The young thing is the vibrant thing”?
Vienna Succession
Who brought in geometric line and clear forms to the Vienna Succession?
Kolomon moser
What organization believed that the figure that represents youth and knowledge?
Vienna Succession
What organization had the philosophy of “the total work of art”?
Vienna Succession
What organization believed that ornament is needs only to enhance a design?
Vienna Succession
What did Walter Cranes work influence and what kind of style does this represent?
[Walter Crane, Line and form ] Vienna Succession
a genealogy and evolution
represents style of youth
What is this and when was it made?
Gabriel Max, Still Life [Girl at a Spinet, 1871]
Who had the understanding of art work is different?
Gustav Klimt, Judith 1st 1907
What is this and who made it?
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
“The fresh promise of spring”
his was a experimental journal
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
“The fresh promise of spring”
his was a experimental journal
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
This was carefully designed, and to avoid clashing components
unusual size
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
This journal used high designed principles, and high art-quality
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
This book left enough space in the margins to be bound
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
The square forms in this art book indicate someone speaking
Koloman Moser “Vorfruhling” in Ver Sacrum [1901]
Responsibility to train young workers went to where
trade schools and colleges of art and design
What model of education was used in British design schools?
“south kensington system”
What was set up in manufacturing cities and towns?
a flurry of private presses
text and images became an artistic whole
The New Poster
Color lithography made sophisticated reproductions
The New Poster
pictoralism came commonplace for transportation advertising
The New Poster
Checking the Abuse of Public Advertising - or -monitor issue of style and location of posters
The New Poster
A movement led by Gustav Klimt
Vienna Secession
18 artist that felt that current were out of touch with newer art styles and theories
Vienna Secession
first goal was to acquire a exhibition of their own...
Vienna Secession
to show new art to the public
Vienna Secession
believed that modern industrial society could only be interpreted by open design strategies
Vienna Secession
they believe in living a youthful way and therefore become elevated
Vienna Secession
What is the connection between the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte?
They both had connections with relating to modern society, Werkstatte wanted to beautify it and the Succession wanted to interpret with art using open design strategies.
Josef Hoffmann [member of the Secession] was also a member of what?
Wienr Werkstatte [Viennease Workshops]
What organization promoting high standards of manufacture?
Wienr Werkstatte [Viennease Workshops]
they sought to create work that would beautify modern urban society
Wienr Werkstatte [Viennease Workshops]
secession art never successfully formed relationships with manufactures unlike this
Wienr Werkstatte [Viennease Workshops]
they rejected organic style and focused on geometric clarity
Werkstatte style
they had the ideology that the designers would be paid royalties from their work, and not have to suffer poverty and wage laborers
Werkstatte style
while here with this organization Hoffmann designed geometric cutlery [pure geometric shape and formal clarity]
Werkstatte style
while here with this organization Hoffmann shifted his style for organic to geometric
Werkstatte style
they had a art show in Vienna [work of 170 artists of a very wide range of Austrian art]
Werkstatte style
What is this?
Alfred Roller & Koloman Moser cover designs for Ver Sacrum “Sacred Spring”
- 216 original woodcuts
What was Hoffman best known for?
Hoffman – architecture – better known for his industrial work
What is this and who made it?
What sought to integrate typography, ornament, and image into a unified work?
Ver Sacrum
What had geometric patterns and extreme simplification?
Ver Sacrum
Who is this? Tell me about this work
Abstract and violent/sexual themes were able to be explore and allow artist like Egon Schiele to make dramatic posters.
In general, what are the connections between the Modern art movements (or Modernisms) and
early-twentieth century graphic design?
All of the previous movements have allowed us to get were we are noe with graphic deign, they opened the public/audiences up for abstraction, and various experimental relationships with with design elements.
How do these movements reflect the experience of modern
life?
Naturally in this day and age, we take inspiration for our own are from what has been done in the past. This allows us to make things seem familiar, while also presenting something new.
In general, what are the connections between the Modern art movements and early 20th century graphic design?
All of the previous movements have allowed us to get were we are now , and with graphic design, they opened the public/audiences up for abstraction, and various experimental relationships with with design elements. Also that new revival, as in bringing back elements from the past make our connections.
How do modern movements reflect the experience of modern life?
Naturally in this day and age, we take inspiration for our own are from what has been done in the past. This allows us to make things seem familiar, while also presenting something new.
What is Cubism?
objects are broken up depicted from multiple of viewpoints. The background and object planes intersect one another to create shallow space.
What is Cubism?
objects are broken up depicted from multiple of viewpoints. The background and object planes intersect one another to create shallow space
Cubism, and how did it affect graphic design?
Graphic design was effect by this in its sense to show superiority and aggressiveness. This stems from a need to express excitement in a threatening environment, a need for a new lanuge for a modern experience
[Picaso Oil on Canvas, 1907]
3.) Who made the Calligrammes, and what is their significance?
Who :Guillaume Apollinairem 1918
They are significant beasce it capture the movement of the words; you can see what is transcibing

Typed words would imitate shapes.
what art is described as aggressive male youth?
Futurism
What was the first Avant-garde art?
Futurism
What art is described as a destroyer of forms?
Futurism
Who/what worshiped technology, speed, efficiency & noise?
Futurism
How does Futurism relates to graphic design and typography?
Futurism relates to graphic design and typography by depicting a better way of experiencing life, scattered and breaking of forms, abstract words that represent sounds [like swoosh1!] A collision of typography design and literature and clashing them together to depict modern life
Descibe Words-in-freedom
colored variety of fonts & an expressive force of words, typographers made different type styles varing in the sense of tonality, intensity & weight
Who advocated a freely remodeling words to evoke appropriate sensations?
Marinetti
What are the Advantages of adapting an art style to graphic design?
Advantages
you are able to have a clear direction as far as layout and composition.
Each art label has a clear description on what it to be expected in the piece
What are the Disadvantages of adapting an art style to graphic design?
Disadvantages
you are stuck in a particular category which can relate to many other artist of the same group. Perhaps some you might not want to be associated with.
You are stuck in a category, there is very little room for new experimentation, because changes are that it has been done before, or that your piece is similar to something else.
What is all the variety of art for the sole purpose of social change and a rejection of treasured ideas and values of the masses?
Dada
The Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich hosted the first what?
Dada
People like Hugo Ball & Tristan Tzara created what.?
Dada
The style that means disgust with the war/capitalism?
Dada
What art movement created this innovation? new visual strategies and compositional vocab
dada
What movement led designers to be more open-minded about non-traditional work?
dada
What movement used disorienting viewing experiences in their art?
dada
Who did this?
Raoul Hausmann
Desicbe this.
sets up an aggressive confrontation with the viewer
uneasiness and excitement mixed with modern forms
WHo is Kurt Schwitters?
Dadaist that did lots of Junk art [use of refuse for modern society]
innovative design ideas
Who is John Heartfeild?
Dadaist
organizing the First International Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920
did photo montages to undermine the nazi's
What classifies bold, linear symmetry ?
Art Deco
Modern and streamlined, a sign of a new age of technology and architecture, what is this?
Art Deco
ge of technology and architecture, what is this?
What art classifies a celebration machines?
Art Deco
Who did this and what style is it?
Art Deco: A.M Cassandre, Dubonet [1932]
What art piece used an urban experience?
Art Deco: A.M Cassandre, Dubonet [1932]
What art piece used a direct representation of the senses?
Art Deco: A.M Cassandre, Dubonet [1932]
Name an art deco typography.
AM Cassandre, Bifur [1932]
recognize the sequence instantly, and it allows us to see the other part of the letters happens in what typography?
AM Cassandre, Bifur [1932]
he knows that if you have enough surrounding information, the brain will complete it, what kind of typography is he talking about?
AM Cassandre, Bifur [1932]