Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Allworth Press September 1, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1581150644
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1581150643
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Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
This matchless volume is the first to record the milestones of graphic design, from its beginnings as a viable art and craft to its most sophisticated, present-day accomplishments. Two-page spreads are devoted to each year of the century, from 1900 to 2000. Complete with numerous illustrations, this is an ideal desk reference, providing answers to endless historical questions such as when a style or technology was invented, when a designer was born or died, when an influential work was created, when a movement began, and when a school was founded.
About The Author
Steven Heller, a senior art director at The
New York Times and editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, is the author of The Swastika, Design Literacy, Letterforms: Bawdy, terrible and gorgeous, and numerous other books on graphic design. He lives in New York.Elinor Pettit, an educator and graphic designer, is the coauthor of Design Dialogues. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
Reader ReviewsHeller is, as we all know by now, the preeminent graphic design writer of our times. This work displays the history of graphic design in simple, bulleted lists arranged by category in a chronoligcal arrangement that is as elegant as it is simple: each year gets its own spread (though earlier , sparses, years are two-to-a-spread), with reproductions of work from the year and stats on important developments in design, illustration, photo, and more, as well as the people who are responsible for such work. Not a book to be read all at once, but to be enjoyed sporadically, leafed through, glanced through before bed... a must-have for the design history enthusiast.
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