Chapter 12 Megg's History of Graphic Design

The London Underground, revised by Edward Johnston, 1918



Poster for the Glasgow Institute of the fine arts, 1895



Frank Llyod Wright, First Chapter opening spread for the house beautiful, 1896-97



Gustav Klimt, Poster for the first Vienna Secession exhibition, 1898

-The work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was becoming known to European artists and designers and in 1893 wright started his independent practice



-The studio had a strong influence on a group of Scottish artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh, J. Herbert Mcnair, Margret and Frances Macdonald. They were called the four.

-The designs by the four are distinguished by symbolic imagery and stylized form.

-The vienna Secession, with it’s Sezessionstil came into being on 3 April 1897, when the members of the Kunstlerhaus resigned in protest led by Gustav Klimt.

-Artist, Architect, and designer peter behrens change design in the first decade of the new century, he sought typographic reform, was an early advocate for sans-serifs.

-In 1890 the world’s first electric railway system opened In london