Learner Reviews & Feedback for Ideas from the History of Graphic Design by California Institute of the Arts
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SV
Nov 8, 2020
This is another awesome course that I enjoyed thoroughly! I loved and enjoyed learning about the awesome people and institutions of the past that made graphic designing what it is today.
HC
Aug 20, 2017
It's a lovely course and the lecturers are great, but it focus mostly on American design or the impact of other designers in the USA. I would love to learn more about non-USA design.
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By Karen
•Sep 21, 2016
Good start for learning History of GD.
By Jyothsna P
•Jun 22, 2020
Nice course , a little boring though.
By Juan U G C
•Feb 4, 2021
Good, but i feel it too superficial.
By John W
•Dec 24, 2023
was great learnt a lot from history
By Llimy J C A
•May 26, 2023
I liked so much. ist so interesing
By Kafi N
•Aug 25, 2021
Very informative course! Thank you
By Leonie P
•Jul 19, 2022
Really nice insights I think :)
By Khan Z A
•Aug 5, 2020
learned a lot from the course.
By Julie
•Oct 21, 2025
The sound is not consistent.
By Cameron S
•Apr 11, 2017
Nice and informative
By Christine E
•May 17, 2020
Very interesting!
By Glaide W
•Oct 10, 2020
Good classes
By Alexandra M
•Mar 6, 2019
I't was good
By Peter R
•Jan 3, 2017
Excellent.
By Abrile F
•Oct 22, 2024
Very good
By MARISOL P V
•Oct 4, 2017
Great!
By M A Y
•Nov 4, 2023
Nice
By Charudatta J
•Jun 26, 2020
nice
By DINESH K K
•Jun 14, 2020
good
By Battina D G
•May 10, 2020
GOOD
By Katie S
•Sep 14, 2020
This course was great--really wish it was a bit longer and went through more information. While the course information was good, there is a problem with peer reviews in this course. I found obvious plagiarism and/or a complete misunderstanding of the assignment every week in my peers so something needs to happen with the assignments--in one week I flagged over 4 of my peers. Maybe instructors need to select various images not found online that the students review? Something at least...
By Samantha F
•Apr 5, 2019
This course provided a solid foundation in graphic design - though limited to a Western history. Today it seems as though Bauhaus-influenced minimalism is an all-encompassing design approach. As a new designer, it would have been beneficial to understand alternative or reactionary approaches (maximalism is a new design buzzword, for example) and traditions from outside the USA/Western Europe schools of design - especially as these are difficult things to research independently.
By Sami L
•Dec 6, 2016
The course being concentrated exclusively on the design ideas of United States, it's quite literally "some ideas from the history of graphic design". Some of the choices for the contents of the course were, from the continental point of view, rather odd, though that did not make them any less interesting. As a summary: the course was interesting enough to be passed through.
By Bhavna S
•May 22, 2017
I found this course very interesting and intensive. There is so much history to understand, interpret and re-contextualise as a designer.
By Luis H
•Jul 3, 2016
A nice introductory course.
However, I found the latter half of the course too skewed towards the USA.