Identify influences and characteristics of design styles.Provide exposure to images and information to inspire great work, further study, and exploration.The goal of the course was for the student to be inspired or fascinated by some person, movement, style, technology, company, event, or logo. The lecture have been edited to reduce the number of images and to speed up loadingĪnd scrolling and the lectures have not been updated or had images added since 2016.ġ: Communication, making marks, Ancient Egypt & ChinaĢ: Roman alphabet, Medieval manuscript, printing, typographyģ: Test 1, Rococo, Wood Type Poster, photographyĤ: Victorian, advertising agencies, Arts & Craftsĥ: Test 2, Art Nouveau, Minimalism, Cubism, Futurism, DadaĦ: Surrealism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Tschichold, propagandaĨ: Beck map, The Fifties, Disney, International Typographic Styleĩ: Test 4, Corporate identity, branding, Herb Lubalinġ0: Push Pin Studios, Sixties, icons, New Waveġ1: Test 5, Computer technology, Apple Computer, Macrapġ2: Punk, Information Graphics, Internet, WorldWideWeb Graphic Design in social media from Cave marks to Digital web the History of Graphic Design is an overview of the historical styles, movements, people, and events of design to help inspire one to design more creative, appropriate, and intelligent solutions to advertising and design problems. 9,914 images (average 800 images/lecture)ġ984-1987: Brookhaven College, Dallas County Community College District: History & Psychology of Visual Communication, 3 sectionsġ987-2008: University of Central Oklahoma History & Psychology of Graphic Design, History & Theory of Graphic Design, History of Graphic Design, 28 sections.Ģ000-2003: University of Oklahoma, History of Visual Communication, 4 sectionsĢ004: Scanned all slides to digital images Built lectures in Keynote, added text.ġ998-2016: Oklahoma State University: History of Graphic Design, 19 sections.It was a wonderful experience, a phenomenal course as evidenced by the evaluations and comments I still receive today. It was interesting, funny, engaging, and inspirational. I did a remarkable job developing a course when few universities even taught design history. That has all changed - student commitment, supervisor support, and one can now access the information more easily. I did it in a time and place that was just the right recipe for me to succeed. I don’t want to video it, I don’t wanna do it for adults, or in a classroom with today’s students. I am no longer willing to do the amount of work required to keep it updated and fresh. Sunday, September 15, during a television interview with 90 year old Milton Glaser: I realized that it's time to let go of ever teaching design history again, in any form.
My expertise blossoms in front of a live audience. In 2019, was asked about teaching an online course at Penn State, but, I realized that would not be a good fit. Later, I thought about developing and teaching a class for adults through AIGA, pared down to six weeks, no tests or homework. I retired from classroom teaching in December of 2016.
Teaching the History of Graphic Design course