Robert Brownjohn

Robert Brownjohn studied at the Institute of Design Chicago, where he ended up working with founder László Moholy-Nagy. He became a professor at the Institute aged just 22, before moving to New York to become a graphic designer. There, his clients included Columbia Records and Pepsi Cola. He co-founded BCG in 1957, moved to London […]

History of Graphic Design- Art Nouveau

It surprises me that Japan had so much influence in the early development of graphic design. As I had never researched into it, I had just assumed the style was developed through pure ingenuity by somebody, somewhere. Seeing these early developments helped me realise that the art style developed slowly and through many people’s influence. […]

History of Graphic Design- Industrial Revolution and William Morris

Industrial revolution has popularized mass production of things, something that lasted through the ages. In the past, Morris’ reaction against it is not surprising as he thought mass production would bring an end to craftsmenship and craftsmen’s jobs. And so he reacted by producing his works painstakingly by hand (and in so doing consequentially making […]

William Morris

William Morris’ work. Beautiful illustrated leaves, related to/ is under art nouveau I suppose?