- ISBN13: 9780500203477
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
From its roots in the development of printing, graphic design has evolved as a means of identification, information, and promotion to become a profession and discipline in its own right. This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corporate identity, television, and electronic media, and the impact of technical innovations such as photography and the com… More >>
Graphic Design: A Concise History, Second Edition
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#1 by J. Best on April 17, 2010 - 1:58 am
The type (copy) and the book itself are really small and hard to read. It’s more like a pocket size handbook. I should have done more research before I purchased; I made the inaccurate assumption that art/design books are usually larger in scale. I can’t comment on the content of the book because the size of it was such an impediment I stopped reading after a few chapters.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Salvan M. Vanderley on April 17, 2010 - 3:54 am
for design students. The book gives a complete analysis of the graphic design’s history.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by M. G. KING on April 17, 2010 - 6:45 am
Unless you are interested in the opinions of the author, the book is not worth the purchase price. Why? Illustrations. There are but a handful of color illustrations and the majority of all the illustrations are smaller than 1″ x 1.5″. Save the pennies and buy a history with illustrations that are in color and can be seen.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Pavel Kocicka on April 17, 2010 - 8:20 am
First: it is great book full of a lot of examples and connections. And I love it and I can recomend it for everyone who wants to know something about graphic design.
But sometimes it lost connection between graphic and polictic, which is important in 1920s and 1930s.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by dale on April 17, 2010 - 9:11 am
insightful, full of samples (about 800 though largely black & white) a great guide to graphic styles, and the key movers & shakers in the history of graphic design right through from the 1890s to the 1990s.
a huge resource for such a little book, definately worth reading if not just to look at the pictures…
Rating: 5 / 5