graphic design - Art — design — mostly for commercial purposes — for such things as logos, letterheads, packages, advertisements, poster, signage, books, Web pages, and other publications.

• The Italian Futurist Book has an exhibition showcasing Futurism's innovative uses of typography and graphic design, from the years 1909-1944.
  
  
• Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera displays an international collection of historic travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising, and graphic design publications from the 1920s and 1930s.
  
  
• Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s - 1950s presents a colorful exhibit of 1930s - 1950s lithographs from the National Library of Australia. Browse images by destination, symbol, style, or artist.
  
  
• The Swiss Poster Collection shows more than 300 posters from 1971 to the present by designers such as J. Müller-Brockmann and Wolfgang Weingart. Maintained by Carnegie Mellon University.
  
  
• Type and Typography offers basic essays on the history of type including designers, printing, and technology.
  
  
• Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky is an exhibit by the Getty Research Institute site devoted to this modernist Russian typographer, book designer, and architect. Includes chronology, images, and links to related resources.
  
  
  
• American Sign Museum explains the history of the sign industry and its contribution to commerce and the American landscape. Read museum news, view online exhibits, and research biographies, related events, book reviews, and sites. Includes topical forum.
  
  
• AllFreelance.com is a directory of jobs and resources for artists, designers, and writers and Deezin.com is a directory of graphic design resources. Contact Rachel Goldstein.
  
  
• Lessons for most of a year-long secondary-level graphic design class introducing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator applications on Apple Macintosh computers. Finding that high school students enrolled in his graphic design class had little patience for listening to him lecturing to them [shocking!], this teacher posted his lessons and assignments online. From that point on, when he addressed the class collectively, it was usually limited to a couple of minutes at the beginning and end of each session to remind students of deadlines for assignments, to wish them well, etc. Presenting lessons in this way removed the need to monitor students' attention to lectures, and allowed the instructor to spend more time working with individuals, resulting in more cheerful and cooperative teenagers. The course was taught at a suburban Phoenix, Arizona public high school in 2001-2002. There are no lessons posted for the first quarter, during which the classroom's 40 computers weren't working. This was just as well, because starting with pencils and paper put a needed emphasis on dealing with the most basic issues of art and design.
  
  
• A time line of graphic design 1959-1999. Also see time line.

Also see Adobe, aliased and anti-aliased, align and alignment, applied art, Bauhaus, CAD, calligraphy, camera-ready, commercial art, dry transfer graphics, ephemera, fluorescent colors, graphic, illustration, letterform, lettering, logo, lorem ipsum, new media, pasteup, placeholder, sign, specifications, text, and typography.

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