.

The End

I hope you have find these notes useful. Please provide me with any comments or suggestions you may have. This is a living text and I will frequently change and improve the content.

My hungry little fishes would follow your mouse, hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - In the Beginning: Writing

Chapter2: The Medium is the Message; The Birth of Communication Design in Egypt

Chapter 3 - A Symbiotic Relationship: Book

Chapter 4 - The Islamic Calligraphy

Chapter 5 - Calligraphy in East Asia

Chapter 6 - Cartography and Designing of Maps

Chapter 7 - Playing Cards

Chapter 8 - Tarot Cards and Mithraism

Chapter 9 - The Byzantine Art

Chapter 10 - The Art of Minature

Chapter 11 - Woodblock Prints of China and Japan

Chapter 12 - Graphic Design in Ceramics

Chapter 13 - Native American Pottery

Chapter 14 - The Mayan, Aztecs, and Incas' Art

Chapter 15 - African Art

Chapter 16 - Minimalism

Chapter 17 - Communications: from Speech to Pictogram and Heraldic Signs

Chapter 18 - Logotypes and Branding

Chapter 19 - The Viennese Method

Chapter 20 - Pictograms in Olympics

Chapter 21 - Astronomical, Statistical and Scientific

Chapter 22 - Pioneers of the modern industrial design, The Bauhaus school, Le Corbusier and The American Streamline Style.

Chapter 23 - Ancient Rock Reliefs

Chapter 24 - Emergence of the Modern Print, Poster Design, A History of Typeface, and A History of Book Covers

Chapter 25 - Pioneers of the Art Nouveau

Chapter 26 - The US Pioneers of Posters

Chapter 27 - Gustav Klimt, and the Vienna Secession

Chapter 28 - Poster Art as Social Commentary

Chapter 29 - Propaganda Posters

Chapter 30 - Posters and the Cult of Personality

Chapter 31 - The German Jugendstil and Plakatstil Movements

Chapter 32 - Pioneers of Advertisement Posters and Newspaper Layout

Chapter 33 - Pop Art

Chapter 34- Graphic Designers in the Fashion Industry

Chapter 35 - Graffiti and Street Art

Chapter 36 - Art of Posters for Films - the Cuban School

Chapter 37 - the Polish School and the Polish Art of Opera, Film and Circus Posters

Chapter 38 - Saul Bass, and the Art of Film Title Sequence & Film Poster

Chapter 39 - A History of Film Title Sequence

Chapter 40; A history of Caricatures, and Political Cartoons

Chapter 41. A History of the Comic Strips and the Underground Comix

Chapter 42; The Swiss Grid System -- and the Dutch Total Grid

Chapter 43: Graphic Design and the Postmodern Epoch

Chapter 44; The Italian Futurist Visual Design

Chapter 45; Dadaism; The meeting point of all contradictions

Chapter 46: A history of the American Movie Posters

Chapter 47: Artists and Creators of American Movie Posters