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Design Profession

You can’t fully appreciate the occupation of graphic design until you understand this…

by Chuck Green at ideabook.com

Graphic design of the past, until the 1980s or so, was as much a hands-on craft as it was a sit-in-front-of-a-screen thing. Today, ink, presses, tools, chemical processes, and such are almost entirely avoidable if a graphic designer chooses to avoid them.

If you don’t know the craft side of it, I urge you to discover the great insights you’ll gain my understanding where and how our profession originated. British Pathé is a deep collection of cinema newsreels from (roughly) the 1890s to the 1970s. And among it’s 90,000-plus films are many gems regarding printing, typography, illustration, and so on. Here’s a start…

Lithography (1940-1949)…

Printing wallpaper (1968)…

The Teleprinter (1932)…

The art of etching (1941)…

Map making (1965)…

An animated illustration (1932)…

A designer/illustrator (1972)

Making Christmas cards (1948)…

MonoType Portraits (1939)…

Lino cuts of Nazi crimes (1962)…

The British Pathé channel on YouTube…

The British Pathé website…

History of British Pathé…

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