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Meggs' history of graphic design / Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Hoboken : Wiley, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Sixth editionDescription: x, 680 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781118772058
  • 1118772059
Other title:
  • History of graphic design
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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. Postmodern design -- 23. National visions within a global dialogue -- 24. The digital revolution and beyond
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Visual Communications II

Visual Communications III

Revised edition of: A history of graphic design. ©1998

Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-655) 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. Postmodern design -- 23. National visions within a global dialogue -- 24. The digital revolution and beyond