History Archives - 2020 Vision Design

Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project

by Joe Senior | Dec 13, 2019 | Design, Fine Art, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Inspiration, Resource | 0 |

ARTICLE SUMMERY: There is something awe inspiring about the medieval illustrations and the graphic...

Getty Publications Virtual Library

by Joseph Fioramonti | Dec 12, 2019 | Design, Fine Art, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Inspiration, Resource | 0 |

The Getty Museum has developed a program to share more than three hundred books in its Virtual...

Reviving a blackletter font from a museum’s archive

by Joe Senior | Nov 21, 2019 | Design, Graphic Design, History, Print, Typography | 0 |

Last year the printing museum Pavillon-Presse in Weimar (Germany) created a digital catalog for...

Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics

by Joseph Fioramonti | Nov 19, 2019 | Design, Graphic Design, History, Illustration | 0 |

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” So wrote the Victorian art critic...

The True Purpose of Solitaire, Minesweeper, and FreeCell

by Joseph Fioramonti | Nov 14, 2019 | Design, Design Thinking, History, Tech, User Interface and Experience Design | 0 |

These simple Windows games have probably caused more lost worker hours than anything short of a...

The 130-Year-Old Paint Shop That Invented Oil Pastels for Picasso

by Joseph Fioramonti | Nov 6, 2019 | Color Theory, Fine Art, History | 0 |

Henri Sennelier, the grandson of Gustave, was approached by Pablo Picasso himself in 1948.

A GUIDE TO RECOGNISING FONT STYLES

by Joe Senior | Oct 30, 2019 | Design, Graphic Design, History, Resource, Typography, Web Design | 0 |

ARTICLE SUMMERY: In design the importance of typography and it’s proper use can never be...

New show celebrates the revolutionary graphic design of the 1960s

by Joe Senior | Oct 29, 2019 | Design, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Print | 0 |

When you think of the 1960s, you think music and fashion. But the graphic design of the time was...

The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum

by Siobhan Ford | Sep 19, 2019 | Fine Art, History, Inspiration | 0 |

Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that...

This is what 500 years of graphic design in print looks like

by Joe Senior | Sep 6, 2019 | Graphic Design, History, Illustration | 0 |

In1455, the budding Italian urbanist and author Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini was in...

For a Brief Moment in Every NASA Mission, Astronauts Become Designers

by Siobhan Ford | Sep 3, 2019 | Design, Graphic Design, History, Illustration | 0 |

But for one brief moment during the flight preparations that will take them far beyond the reaches...

Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write

by Siobhan Ford | Aug 23, 2019 | Fine Art, History, Illustration, Inspiration, Print, Typography | 0 |

IN 1988, YI NIANHUA, A woman in her 80s, spent many evenings scribbling elegant characters at...

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Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project

Getty Publications Virtual Library

Reviving a blackletter font from a museum’s archive

Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics

The True Purpose of Solitaire, Minesweeper, and FreeCell

The 130-Year-Old Paint Shop That Invented Oil Pastels for Picasso

A GUIDE TO RECOGNISING FONT STYLES

New show celebrates the revolutionary graphic design of the 1960s

The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum

This is what 500 years of graphic design in print looks like

For a Brief Moment in Every NASA Mission, Astronauts Become Designers

Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write

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