> On Apr 18, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Gavin O'Brien <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Terry,
> you've recently been questioning the value of teaching design history in design education. In your discussion of the term 'graphic design' in this post you claim (without providing any evidence), that 'It is apparently less than 60 years since its first use as a term in any way'.
> Not so.
> Not by a long way.
> I refer you to W G Raffe's 1927 text "Graphic Design".
Designer, typographer, and puppeteer William Addison Dwiggins is usually credited with coining the phrase: "New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design," -Boston Evening Transcript- August 29, 1922 (making the term 93 in about four months.)
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