5+design history

AIGA honored his ongoing partnership with the author, songwriter, and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson when it named Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day an exemplar of the finest ‘typographical art’ produced during 1930.

The book, with Douglas’s drawing on the binding, was included in the Fifty Books of the Year exhibition in 1931.

In 1958, Gerald Holtom created a logo for the ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ (CND), which was first shown during an anti-nuclear march in England.

The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…

What Engelbart showcase to the computer world in 1968 was more than a mouse; it was a means to control a “windowed interface” where users can create hyperlinks, edit text, even video conferencing.

Cognitive scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon was the first to mention design as a way of thinking in his 1969 book, The Sciences of the Artificial.

After the very first Earth Day took place in April 1970, the world started to give attention to environmental issues.

In 1971 the symbol was introduced by Ray Tomlinson as a way to connect programmers together, which actually was the start of email.

Robert H. McKim, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, also referred to the notion of design thinking in his 1973 book, Experiences in Visual Thinking.

When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…

Nigel Cross, Designerly Ways of Knowing, 1982:http://www.makinggood.ac.nz/media/1255/cross_1982_designerlywaysofknowing.pdf

Peter Rowe, then Director of Urban Design Programs at Harvard, published his book Design Thinking in 1987.

First-generation American, and first-generation college-educated, Anderson was 28 when a spread featuring her hand-drawn letters and thoughtful composition in a 1990 issue of Rolling Stone was recognized by AIGA in the Under 30 competition.

Richard Buchanan, Wicked Problems in Design Thinking, 1992: http://web.mit.edu/jrankin/www/engin_as_lib_art/Design_thinking.pdf

Nigel Cross, Designerly ways of knowing: design discipline versus design science, 2001: http://oro.open.ac.uk/3281/1/Designerly-_DisciplinevScience.pdf

“In 2008, Anderson became the first African-American woman to receive the AIGA Medal.

“In 2017, Emmett McBain was was recognized posthumously by AIGA ‘for his revolutionary design leadership and profound social impact in cofounding Burrell-McBain Advertising.’