Graphic Design & Typography
 
Both text and image were to be decoded and read by the viewer, relying on semantic meaning with little interest in page structure or systematic organization. Unfortunately many designers today associate this powerful approach with advertising's commercialism and fail to take advantage on the power of the conceptual image/copy concept method.

As this highly successful form of advertising began to dominate American visual communications, the first wave of Swiss design thinking and forms arrived on the American scene. First transmitted in the early 1960s through a few design magazines and books.

several professional design offices began to practice these ideas to solve the needs of large corporate clients. A number of corporations and institutions adopted this method and aesthetic. Eventually U.S. corporate culture adopted "Swiss" graphic design as the ideal corporate style. What was originally very difficult to sell to business clients is very difficult to avoid today.

This had a profoundly professionalizing influence in American graphic design, further replacing the commercial artist's servant image with one of a disciplined, educated professional. As this method influenced the field, graphic design began to split apart from advertising design, a major division that remains today.

 
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The "big idea" was far more image-oriented, employing illustration and symbolic photography. "Swiss" graphic expression stressed the syntactic grammar of graphic design with structured grids and typographic relationships.

Reinforcing the idea that graphic design was more than a personal art form, it became the first codified theory of graphic design, a major step in the evolution to professionalism.

when young American graphic designers began to migrate from training in graphic design, some of this complexity began to embellish basic American "Swiss" graphic design in the form of bars and rules and playful mixing of type sizes, weights and faces.

 
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Although most graphic designers remained unaware of this premises for many years-- and many may not yet realize this profound influence-- the challenges to Modernist dogma sent shock waves rippling throughout the architecture and design world, stimulating new work that came to be called "PostModern."

The emergence of graphic design history idovetailed with rediscovery of pre-Modern design. It was a definite sign of maturation when graphic design discovered that it had a history. Until then graphic designers felt they were still inventing the discipline.

Bored with the rigidity and minimalism of corporate American "Swiss", American designers, particularly certain educators associated with several of the better schools of graphic design began to experiment.

Graphic design is analyzed in linguistic terminology as a visual language. The audience is approached as readers as well as viewers. In the best of this new design, content is again at center stage. Images are to be read and interpreted, as well as seen; typography is to be seen as well as read.

There are layers of meaning as well as layers of form. This work has an intellectual rigor, demanding more of the audience, but also rewarding the audience with more content and autonomy. The focus is on the audience to make individual interpretations in graphic design that "decenters" the message.

Desktop publishing is placing the production of low end print communications in the hands of office workers and paraprofessionals. Even the simplest corporate report is now typeset and formatted, raising the visual expectations of our audiences. To distinguish high end graphic communications from the vast output of desktop publishing, a new demand for highly personal, interpretive and eccentric design expressions is surfacing.

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