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    THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC STYLE ON WEB DESIGN INTRODUCTION 
 The International Typographic Style, or Swiss Style, invokes to the graphic design movement that emerged in Switzerland during the 1950s, after the Second World War, in a particular social, economical and industrial context. Through emphasizing clarity of information, the International Style is characterized by a range of specific visual hallmarks. This movement is especially marked by the creation and use of grids

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    characterised by the deliberate departure from tradition. Modernism refers to the periods interest in processes, expressing feelings and ideas in creating abstractions rather than reality. Modern used to mean either the European Modernism, The International style, the functionalist, anti-ornament, and start from zero. The dominant metaphor for modernism in the 20th century was the machine, this stimulated the imaginations of many designers and architects living in industrialised countries, they started

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    development of typography was the ground-breaking art school called the Bauhaus. During this remarkable period of change, nestled between the two World Wars, the Bauhaus helped to break the limits of traditional text and paved the way for modern typographic design. This innovative art school was opened in 1919 by Walter Gropius - an architect who believed that the collaboration of all arts and crafts practices, under the same establishment, was an essential demand. Gropius wanted to combine art and

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    during that time there weren 't that many styles of typefaces and since then the typefaces have changed, kind of. The typefaces used when they were press was first made are still used today. Are hand crafted fonts more successful than the sans serif modern typefaces. The History of typography is very captivating it changes, but not as impactful as poster design. Starting from the industrial revolution and it evolution through to the International typographic style. The industrial revolution was where

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    of them are too long. The first article is written by Patricia M et al titled, Intercultural Friendship Development. This original article is 15 pages long with an essay style paragraph and font. Images that I am going to use for this article is from my trip to Bali with my friends few years ago and photos of my first international friends in Perth during my English study in 2014. The second article is about the effect of social media towards society by Nicole, Cliff and Charles. This article is pretty

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    Compare And Contrast Wolfgang Weingarts Style And The International Swiss Typography Style. Summarise Weingart Techniques. The word “Weingart” originated from his students. This began the era of “The Weingart Style” and it spread around. I will explore the differences of Wolfgang Weingarts work and the International Swiss Typography style. Showing how his work is unique compared to the modern swiss typography. I will focus on a range of different techniques that Weingart experimented with and how

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    The foundations of the International Typographic Style can be traced to two art schools, the Zurich School of the Applied Arts and the School of Design in Basel, who taught a curriculum in which form follows function. The 1950s saw a boom of the International style when it was epitomized with the creation of several new san-serif type families. The geometric fonts on the 1920s and 30s was rejected

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    typographer that work within the constraints of the international typographic style movement commonly known as the Swiss style. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Emil Ruder first began his design education from the age of 15 til his late twenties. His early academia and the modernist era in which he worked in clearly influenced his practices, philosophies and principles which in turn impacted his teachings and works that would later garner an international reputation at its peak in the mid 1950s. This case

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    she became known for creating posters for MIT’s campus events. In her designs, she used noticeable images, bold text, and small passages of text that contained information about the event. This design technique was influenced by “the International Typographic Style recently developed in Switzerland, particularly designers such as Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann and Josef

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