This course provides a strong foundation of theoretical ideas in graphic design spanning the early decades of the 20^th century. It opens with influential figures of the avant-garde – Marinetti, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy – designers who grappled with issue of form and function, striving to overcome past conventions and create new world orders. The course focuses on the Art movements these influential figures followed starting from Futurism passing by Constructivism and the Bauhaus ending with the New Typography. After the awareness of the expressions, styles & applications of these Art movements’ students apply these directions and ideas in art works formed in the Studio hours using Relief Printmaking and Stencil Printmaking media & techniques.