Meggs' history of graphic design /
Publication details: Hoboken : Wiley, ©2006.Edition: 4th edDescription: xi, 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cmISBN:- 9780471699026
- 0471699020
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Book Limited Loan | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | Z 246 MEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0006923 | ||
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Revised edition of: A history of graphic design. c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The invention of writing -- 2. Alphabets -- 3. The Asian contribution -- 4. Illuminated manuscripts -- 5. Printing comes to Europe -- 6. The German illustrated book -- 7. Renaissance graphic design -- 8. An epoch of typographic genius -- 9. Graphic design and the industrial revolution -- 10. The arts and crafts movement and its heritage -- 11. Art nouveau -- 12. The genesis of twentieth-century design -- 13. The influence of modern art -- 14. Pictorial modernism -- 15. A new language of form -- 16. The Bauhaus and the new typography -- 17. The modern movement in America -- 18. The international typographic style -- 19. The New York school -- 20. Corporate identity and visual systems -- 21. The conceptual image -- 22. National visions within a global dialogue -- 23. Postmodern design -- 24. The digital revolution and beyond.
"Under the new authorial leadership of Alston W. Purvis, Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fourth Edition offers hundreds of full-color images supported by the latest information, including a new chapter on modern type design. With more than 1,000 illustrations, lucid text, and interpretive captions, this Fourth Edition reveals as saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important design innovations."--Jacket.