The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 | Thematic Essay. VADS: the online resource for visual arts - Imperial War Museum Posters of Conflict. Collections View all images from the Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict collection Introduction The Posters of Conflict project was a joint venture between the Imperial War Museum and the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD) at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was awarded over £300,000 through the Arts and Humanities Research Board Resource Enhancement Scheme.
(On 1st April 2005 the AHRB was renamed the Arts and Humanities Research Council.) The three-year project aimed to catalogue, digitally photograph and publish online around 10,000 posters from the Museum's internationally important collection. The Imperial War Museum Poster Collection The Imperial War Museum's poster collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its type in Britain, documenting the social, political, ethnic and cultural aspirations of warring nations from the First World War to more recent conflicts. British Posters German and Austro-Hungarian Posters. De Stijl. Main : Graphic Design For Rainy Days. The History of Visual Communication. This website, which contains the material of the course VA312, taught at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.
Wikipedia defines visual communication as: The primary tool by which man has visualised ideas is through the usage of writing and, by extension, type: Writing/type is the visual manifestation of the spoken word. And words are what we communicate with. Thus it is no overstatement when we say that type is the essence of visual communication and by extension of visual communication design.
Type, where it is present, is simply the single most important element that you put on a page, since it inherently carries the essence of communication and communication is what our subject of study as graphic/multimedia designers is all about.