Visual Communication Design Review

This course reviews the development of visual communication design from the dawn of the civilization (15000 BC) to contemporary era. Through lectures, videos, discussions and literary surveys of design’s pivotal events and movements, students are made acquainted with the very language of their own discipline. Accordingly, one can better grasps key and formal ideas of any influential movements from which our current design practice have been, and will be shaped. 

Topics:

• Prologue to Graphic Design
• Graphic Renaissance
• Twentieth Century
• The Modernist Era
• The Age of Information