Graphic design - Digital Revolution, Typography, Visual Communication
Graphic design - Digital Revolution, Typography, Visual Communication: Until the late 20th century, the graphic-design discipline had been based on handicraft processes: layouts were drawn by hand in order to visualize a design; type was specified and ordered from a typesetter; and type proofs and photostats of images were assembled in position on heavy paper or board for photographic reproduction and platemaking. Over the course of the 1980s and early ’90s, however, rapid advances in digital computer hardware and software radically altered graphic design. Software for Apple’s 1984 Macint...
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