History of Graphic Design(Su18 GID F001)

Similar to pictographs, petroglyphs are also images instead of letters, but are engraved into a cave or a rock. A pictograph maybe be a pictograph as well. Pictographs are basic drawing or sketches literally representing an object, idea, or an animal. Unlike petroglyphs, pictographs were not sketched into a hard medium like a cave wall. Ideographs are symbols inside the pictograph or the petroglyph that represents ideas or concepts. Ideographs are similar to modern-day traffic signs. Phono, meaning sound or voice, and grams meaning a drawing or something is written; phonograms are images that illustrate a sound the picture would make. Phonograms created a type of writing called, cuneiform. Cuneiform, is a complicated writing system with 560 signs. An alphabet is consists of graphic symbols or characters, that when put together, create the basic sound of a language. Alphabets are much more efficient than cuneiform or hieroglyphics that required the memorization of hundreds of symbo...

Israeli graphic designer, David Tartakover, was born in Haifa(so was I) in 1944. He was since then opened his own studio in Tel Aviv. He specializes in different aspects of visual communications, specifically Israeli culture and politics. Since 1976, He is a senior lecturer in the Visual Communication Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and president of the Graphic Designers Association of Israel (GDAI). Some of his most notable work, is the Peace Now logo in 1978, and became a bumper sticker. This was the first political bumper sticker in Israel. Tartakover's mural in Tel Aviv, Israel Peace Now logo, 1978 https://www.tartakover.co.il/

For this week’s journal, I wrote about Glaser’s iconic 1967 poster of Bob Dylan. He used a black silhouette, and for Dylan’s hair, Glaser used brightly colored hair patterns, which were inspired by art nouveau sources. This poster produced nearly six million copies for the best selling album. This image became an icon for graphic design in America.