Digital style history: the development of graphic design on the Internet

@article{Engholm2002DigitalSH,
  title={Digital style history: the development of graphic design on the Internet},
  author={Ida Engholm},
  journal={Digital Creativity},
  year={2002},
  volume={13},
  pages={193 - 211}
}
  • Ida Engholm
  • Published 1 December 2002
  • Art
  • Digital Creativity
Since the appearance of the phenomenon of web design in the early 1990s, numerous ways of describing, viewing and instrumentalising this new design area have developed. However, so far few attempts have been made to develop analytic and reflective approaches to web design as an aesthetic phenomenon. The aim of this article is from an art historical perspective to focus on WWW as a graphic-aesthetic medium that can be examined as an object or work, and whose development can be described within… 
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