Hey Ben, the image you used at 13:25 - the part where you mentioned Chinese moveable type - that image is actually Korean. I really enjoy your presentation, as a self-taugh graphic designer this kind of material is so helpful to me. Thank you for the great work!
I have a final in a course called "History of Graphic Design" and the final is to make a timeline of the history of graphic design, from cave paintings up till the present. I am watching your video now, but had to comment how thankful I am. Thank youuu for taking the time to film this very informative video. I will send this video to my classmates! ❤️
100 % agree This has been an amazing and helpful video for the class work and has made me change my perception of the class from “man why do I have to take this class” to “wow this is so cool & I want to know more”
Hey man, quick question. could I use bits of your videos/lesson for my class. I teach a graphic design course and due to the whole quarantine in NYC all schools are closed. I will love to teach the history of Graphic design since my kids don't have access to Adobe programs at home. Thank you very much.
Thank you for uploading this! I am teaching myself and free resources like this make me feel like I'm actually in design school! You are so wholesome and easy to learn from too!
My brother, I cannot express to you how grateful I am for this huge amount of knowledge that you have presented in this video. Continue, my friend, what you are providing is great.
hey, really appreciate this video:) just one thing I want to mention is where you're explaining about Typography around 00:14:00, the example is Korean not Chinese. It's Hangeul that's our own alphabet invented by King Sejong.
I really enjoyed the recap of pre-print press history of illustrations, and your explanation of the artistic goals and intentions of visited movments. However, more towards the end, one very dire misconseption goes directly against the goal of the video: understanding the histroric context of art syles, schools and their intentions. For example, recap how Bauhaus movement ended in USA well generally, but you claim the reason why they left Germany as the polar opposite of historic reality. Communism and Fascism aren't the same. Denouncing one doesn't lend support for another, so there is no need to try to see them as the same. Nazies really hated communist. And communist really hated fascists and especially Nazies. On both ideological level as the movements had very opposite values, and for the simple fact Nazies and fascists did their best to hunt down, displace, and even exterminate anyone and anything they saw as communist. One of the main reason or justification of why nazies pushed Bauhaus and other art schools, movements and artist out of germany was because they perseaved them as Communist and revolutionary. Similarly the reason why Nazies were successful in establishing their regime was because many companies backed them up, often because their fierce opposition to communism and socialism. Simply put, Nazies were not communist, they were fiercly anti-communist. Their economic policies even in war effort, didn't privatise companies, they expanded production by deepening the ties between companies and the state - unless Lochheed Martin is communist, the nazies weren't either. Similarly USSR was very much againts the nazie movement, saw the rise of Fascism as a great threat before UK, France or other european states. Nazies very openly hated communism, so this was very natural conclusion. I know this very much steps aside the main topic of the video, but it is important, especially when many of the movements discussed had socialist leanings or agenda. Nazies weren't secretly communist. They were Fascist, and anti-communist. Their policies didn't copy socialist policies nor policies of authoritarian communism. Nazies never did nor even intend to in any way take economic power away from companies or the owners of companies, and in fact gained support of companies because of threat of socialist policies being implemented. Regardless of ones opinion of Communism or USSR, calling Nazies communist is a dire misunderstanding of history, and spoils many of the lessons crusial to learn from the period. Say if one falsely concludes that opposition of communism is the best way to never have a fascist movement gain power again, the group who would most definitely support and aid such efforts would be fascist of past and current times. And if one wants to protect art and free expression, thinking suppression of them was mainly a communist goal, then they might nod along when a school like Bauhaus is shut down for "doctornation of students into communist ideology". One simply can not make correct conclusions and is in risk of making direcly opposite ones to ones intentions, if one sees the Nazies as communist. Because the groups following their ideology, holding their values, and trying to avoid assosiation with the history of their ideas, are anything but communist.
😱😲👏👏👏👏Hallelujah! You are a true legend in the design community. Never thought someone would be kind enough to dedicate this much time and effort into creating such great value. Hope bigger creators consider giving this some shine. This was kind of astonishing for me since I visited your channel after a long time. The numbers will catch up Mr. Kaiser.🙏
Hey Phil! Good to see you on the channel. I am stoked you appreciated the effort it took to put together this video. It was definitely a lot of thought and planning. Thanks for the encouragement.
Really loved this video. I am about to go down a research rabbit hole to learn more about the movements and designers you introduced here. I didnt go to art school when I was young because I bought into the belief that I would regret going for the rest of my life. Now I am in my late 20s and there is nothing about my teens I regret more than not choosing art school, go figures 🤷
thank you so much for sharing that precious knowledge for free ! i'm about to start graphic design studies and this presentation + your tech advices help me so MUCH 💜 ps : i just wanted to correct something in the quote u talked about earlier in the presentation : "I see further only because I stand on the shoulders of giants" is actually from Isaac Newton from 1675 📖 voila!
Thank you so much for the great content Ben. I'm actually so glad that I found this video. Totally agree about the learning of the history of graphic design. I always feel like it is one of the most crucial fundamentals of being a great graphic designer. You have to understand what you are doing & saying. Again thank you for making such a great video!
Great video, I enjoyed it and it was worth the effort you put in. I'm surprised it doesn't have more views I will be sharing. Btw,the "shoulders of giants" quote was by Isaac Newton, a bone fide genius.
What an utterly uninspiring design documentary... the whole point of design is to convey energy/emotion... so start with FEELING. I view design as language in the form of visual poetry.
I think the actual language of the “chinese” moveable type at 13:50 is Korean (Hangul) rather than Chinese. I recognize some shapes from when I was there last summer. Just FYI should you use this powerpoint/keynote again. Now I’ll keep watching this interesting summary. :)
@@BenGKaiser Is there a next time? Did you create an updated version? If not, you may want to research the pronunciation of many names. In addition, when you briefly mention other artists in a list, even a small image of their work would help visual learners get more out of it.
Great video, I just want to make one correction that I haven't seen others mention. When you said the German Bauhaus designers were kicked out of Germany, you switched from saying Nazis to Communist. The Nazis were not communist, they were fighting the communists in Russia and they jailed and deported socialists and communists, of which many Bauhaus members were (which is why they were persecuted).
this is clerly russian, yes, post war 2, while we think of it as war t2, to them it was called the great war. Bound to whip people into submission of ultimate sacrifice, working work, women, etc
I think it's not very accurate, quite a little arrogant if I would like to understand the paintings of 10 000 years ago, to say that they're easy do understand, you don't really know what they represent in terms of the spiritual meanings of hunting, the way they used colors and what meaning there could be behind many things, you just can't know now..
I wish you had included the significance of the Islamic design, the mosque architecture and the symmetric structure and shapes they used which revolutionized style of design.
Make sure you pronounce names and words correctly. Daguerre is pronounced wrong. And you skipped the word Menagerie like you didn't know how to pronounce it.
Thank you for video! I am newly studying graphic design at TAFE (Australian term for vocational colleges) and have found it to be quite helpful and enjoyable to watch.
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Bauhaus was fantastic! Thank you for this video! But please be careful, Nazism is not a branch of communism! Most of the artists, as well as philosophers, thinkers, scientists etc., fled to America from Nazi Germany during the thirties and forties while trying to save their lives and families because, mostly, they were of Jewish or any other "decadent" and "degenerate" descent. Soviets (not Russians) were not that big of a problem at the time, and were, in fact, one of the key factors in keeping Germany from completely devastating Europe. On that note, Nazi propaganda against degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) also gives an insight in clear and to-the-point ways of conveying one horrible and frightening message. Cheers!
What distorted history are you teaching? Indian Vedas are the oldest written texts in the world and at present the scientists confirm its date back to 2500 BC. The Vedas are composed using Sanskrit, a system of language that is almost perfect for any communication. The Chinese came to India in search of these knowledge systems. Alexander also travelled all the way to the borders of India attracted by what Magasthenes (Greek Historian) wrote in the "Indica".
Vedas were mostly only recited and passed on orally for a very long time. Serious scientists are right now claiming that they were actually written down "only" during a period of 1500-500 BCE. This still does not explain why, for instance, the respectable The Meggs' History of Graphic Design (2016) glosses over Vedic Sanskrit as if it played no part in the formation of world alphabets. He only ever mentions it in the following paragraph: "The Aramaic alphabet is believed to be the predecessor of scripts used in India, apparently arriving around the seventh century BCE. Extensive elaboration was necessary to develop alphabets suitable for Indian spoken languages. The Indian subcontinent has a complex array of spoken and written language forms, and the specific origins of early writing in India and its neighboring nations are quite controversial." The grave error there is, of course, that Aramaic alphabet had nothing to do with Vedic Sanskrit which was written in Brahmi script, which played much more influential role for the development of all the other Indian scripts and alphabets.
@@juurstudio Yes, I agree with you that the Vedic Hymns were passed through generations via recital. That doesn't mean ancient 'Bharat' (present Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Burma, and India) had no written languages. Bharat invented a refined language from existing languages and that is termed "Sanskrit" Just means "refined/Purified". The Sanskrit was meant to serve the purpose of communicating the Vedas to the far reaches of Bharat without distortion. Recital was considered to be the best form of no-noise communication. If you want to know how successful this system is then just travel through present India and try to talk to people from different states of India who speak different languages. You will be surprised that although they speak completely different languages The Vedas shall be exactly the same without any distortion in not only pronunciation but also written scripts too. I have not seen or heard of any other language system that has achieved such distinction. The world needs to wake up to the truth that Bharat was a very advanced civilization and is still far ahead of other civilizations in context to "spirituality" And seeking truth.
Im looking into a career as a graphic designer. Im trying to learn with out a degree or to start a degree some day. Right mow im learning and learning a lot
Alexander Rodchenki(something something) from Russia, it's a political communist piece from maybe the late 20:s, 26 is my guess maybe the bolsheiviks? Constructivism. That's my guess!
Thank you for this presentation. As a university graduate, I missed the chance to explore graphic design and get a degree in it and even though this is a brief session on graphic design history, it takes me back when I hear a well thought out presentation.
At 36:50 "The Swimmer," by Italian artist Giulio d'Anna belongs to the Futurism art movement and not Cubism. Thanks for putting so much time into this but its fundamental that you review the video for mistakes.
Just a simple correction. time 13:23. The example shown is Korean, not Chinese. Thanks. Sorry, someone already mentioned it. Thanks for sharing anyway :)
Thanks for the interesting video but please check the pronunciation of the artists you mention. The non-English sounding names are most of the time completely mispronounced. Since the video serves as educational content it would be better if those were correct. If not for the typed names in the presentation and works shown, most of the time I wouldn’t have known who you were talking about based on the way you pronounced their names.
1. Based on bens what the oldest person communication system is how it is? 2. What are the three languages that are the basis for today's communication system 3. What is the current graphic design mecca? Please anyone help me to answer this asap..thanks
Overall I really enjoyed the video. Just a few errors here and there (Art Deco movement highlighted the glitz and glam of the upper crust, not the everyday lives of ordinary people, for example.) Also, a little practice on pronunciation would be helpful - Erté is pronounced "air-tay", not "ah-reet".
Thanks for the feedback E Star. I am constantly trying to improve the quality of my videos and speaking. This was really helpful. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hi, thanks for the video! 🙏 Just started Meggs' history of graphic design and getting this overview first will definitely help me get through the book. Question: What is the brand of the cup you are sipping from in the beginning of the video?
thanks man for this video I developed immense love for graphic design in lockdown period I was looking for something like this. Kudos! love from india🙏
