Allyscully

Digital Design Media Major
Photography Minor

Main Project Ideas - COM 232 History of Design and Digital Media edit

Three articles that I think would make good articles for the main assignment and that I would like to work on include

Claude Garamond
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Emil Ruder

All three of these men contributed to what Typography is today. Claude Garamond (15th Century) might have paved the way for Josef Müller-Brockmann and Emil Ruder (20th Century), as well as those contributing to Typography today. I feel that the Wiki pages that have been started for these three articles lack information and can be improved. I feel that more research can be done and more detailed information can be found such as education history, how they got started, etc, as well as pictures of them to be added to the article page. Allyscully (talk) 15:59, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Sources to use towards contributing to Emil Ruder's Wiki Article edit

I would like to contribute to Emil Ruder's Wiki Article by adding any missing information that I can. I would like to add sections that include his influences on the grid and Swiss style/International style, as well as ad images of Ruder himself and any images of his works.

Source 1 JSTOR - Karl Gerstner: Review of 5x10 Years of Graphic Design

Karl Gerstner: Review of 5×10 Years of Graphic Design, Etc. by Manfred Kröplien Review by: Paul Shaw Design Issues , Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 2006), pp. 84-86

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Emil Ruder

Known for contributing to Swiss Style
His international reputation
He is one of the most important influences on Karl Gerstner's design career

Swiss Style

Design flourished in Switzerland after end of WWII and Cold War
As it developed, it was rational, objective, and socially responsible
use of grids in design

Source 2 JSTOR - Jack H. Williamson The Grid: History, Use, and Meaning

The Grid: History, Use, and Meaning Jack H. Williamson Design Issues , Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 15-30

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How Ruder added to the evolution of the grid
Brought mathematically drawn grid to a level of perfection and elegance without altering the basic use of it as a tool
Swiss movement proved to have much international influence in the 1950's and 1960's
Modern Swiss grid retained all the Cartesian symbolism it had processed during the early modernist era and remained a rational, universally valid design tool

Source 3 Design is History - Swiss Design

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Swiss design is often referred to as International Typographic Style or International Style
Originated in Switzerland in the 1940's and 1950's
Was the basis of the development of graphic design during the mid 20th century
The use of Sans Serif typography, grids and asymmetrical layouts

Developed from two schools

Zurich School of Arts and Krafts (Josef Müller-Brockmann)
Basel School of Design (Armin Hofmann)
Stressed the combination of typography and photography as a means of visual communication

Design is History - Emil Ruder

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Typographer and graphic designer who helped Armin Hofmann form the Basel School of Design
Established the style of design known as Swiss design
Placed heavy importance on Sans Serif typefaces

Source 4 Swiss Style - Emil Ruder Bio

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Born March 20, 1914 in Zurich, Switzerland and died March 13, 1970 in Basel, Switzerland
Initiated the International Advanced program for Graphic Design with Armin Hofmann
Graphic design and typography teacher at Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel (AGS) in 1942 and head of department of apprentices in applied arts by 1947
October 18, 1950 married Ingeborg Susanne Schwarz
Artistic Advisor to the Swiss Post Office in 1961
Published world famous book Typographie in 1967
One of the most famous typographers in the Swiss Style Movement

Source 5 Thinking for a Living - A Brief History of Emil Ruder

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In 1947 took a position as the typography instructor at the Schule für Gestaltung, Basel (Basel School of Design)
Ruder along with the Great Armin Hofmann developed a program structured on the principles of objectivity in design
Broke away from style-driven typography of the past and encouraged his students to be more concerned with precision, proportion, and above all, the role of legibility and communication with type
Fond of asymmetry, he arranged his layouts and typography with careful attention to counter, shape, and white space
Ruder and the school were in high demand by the mid 1960's - Ruder known to only take on two or three students per year
Founded with Aaron Burns (typographer) the International Center for the Typographic Arts in New York, which has been listed as inactive since 1970

Source 6 Swiss Style Timeline

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He played a key part in the development of the swiss style
began his design education at the age of fifteen when he took a compositor's apprenticeship
By his late twentys, Ruder began attending the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts when the principles of Bauhaus and Tschichold's new typography were taught
In 1947 he helped found the basel school

Source 7 Academic Search Complete - Emil Ruder: A Future for Design Principles in Screen Typography.

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Source 8 Book - Typographie by Emil Ruder (2001)

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Source 9 Book - Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography edited by Steven Heller & Philip B. Meggs

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Source 10 Book - Typographie by Emil Ruder (1981)

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Source 11 Book - Meggs History of Graphic Design by Philip B Meggs & Alston W. Purvis

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possible source 12

Graphic Design History .edublogs