NM 344
HISTORY OF DESIGN
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Zeis 214. Monday 1-2:30. Tuesday 12-1:30.
location: university of north carolina asheville
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class-specific | resources



intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
attendance and grading policies
artStor login instructions

major assignments
constructivism project
designer critique paper [examples: Rifkin * Wolfe]
deconstruction project
design & culture paper [examples: Watson * Krawiec * Metcalf]
[common problems with student papers]

writing resources
writing center handouts (UNC)
the citation machine (warlick)
easyBib
how to write a bibliography

required text
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Fifth Edition) (meggs)



history of visual communication timeline
medieval helpdesk
book of kells on CD-ROM
modernism timeline
USSR posters
kurt schwitters audio
Ursonate score (schwitters)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy photos
blue note album covers
ladislav sutnar
Paul Rand logos
Saul Bass film titles
Graphic Design Manual (hofmann) [1965]
pdf versions of U&lc [volumes 1-10]
Columba architecture posters (kunz)
On Overcoming Modernism (wild) [1992]
"Form Follows Function" Revisited (cloninger) [2009]
UCLA extension master graphic designer series
Emigre typefaces
Emigre magazine essays
Vaughan Oliver CD covers
Stefan Sagmeister
Chip Kidd book covers
The Book Cover Archive
100 best posters: 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005
hillman curtis documentaries

Typography
digital version of wooden type
typeface categories (kunz)
a brief history of type (walsh)
typedia
fonts by category (fontpool)
idnetifont database
what the font?
the rather difficult font game (pätilä)
fontifier
fontographer
Paul Renner wins in the End (gleim)

Printing Technology
illumination
woodblock
letterpress
lithography
linotype [hot type]
offset
phototypesetting [cold type]
desktop publishing
graphic design notes

Blogs
design observer
AIGA inspiration
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Books
Graphic Style* (heller/chwast)
Graphic Design: A Concise History* (hollis)
The Look of the Century* (bambini)
The Grammar of Ornament* (jones)
Genius Moves* (heller/illic)