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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History
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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History

by Richard Poulin
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1 pages
10h 27m
English
Rockport Publishers
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PRE-20TH-CENTURY
INFLUENCES
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While many consider Rome the birthplace of Western typography,
image, symbol, and visual storytelling in the built environment, as
well as the early beginnings of their interaction with the man-made
world, this unique design dialogue started much earlier in the
history of mankind.
In the prehistoric era (30,000 BCE–5000 BCE), rock paintings
or pictographs were mankind’s first elemental drawings represent-
ing a concept, object, activity, place, or event and inevitably evolved
into different forms of graphic communication ...
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ISBN: 9781592537792