| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
224 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Previous ed.: 2001. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Expressive hands -- Kids' stories -- Patterns personified -- Political polemics -- Facial symmetry -- Squaring off -- Objective economy -- Flat men -- Play books -- Long-legged fantasy -- Grid locks -- Classic man -- Expressionaist truth -- Hypnotic meandering -- J'Accuse -- Chaos principle -- Metaphoric type -- Hip to be square -- You beast! -- Bars and angles -- Circles and wedges -- Type characters -- Red overprints -- Icontact -- Systematic clutter -- Cover girls and guys -- Futuristic fantasy -- Catalog engineering -- Show of hands -- Covering art -- Portrait charges -- Post-its -- Speeding trains -- News overprint -- Book of days -- Heads up -- Photojournalistic truth -- Flat color -- Playtime -- Attendance required -- Out of the shadows -- Recording devices -- Hand in glove -- Integrated campaign -- Fists and starts -- Modern layout -- Cutout figures -- Symbolizing art -- Transcendent white -- Title pages -- Nuts and bolts -- Magazine FX -- Wit and satire -- The "O"s have it -- Mimetic mnemonics -- Round and round -- Protest symbols -- Flying type -- Prism colors -- Emotive motion -- Primal screams -- Lingua franca -- Optic nerves -- Tag lines -- Pictorial narratives -- Radiation fallout -- Flow chart -- About faces -- Comic panels -- Photographically surreal -- Navigational aid -- Book type -- Graphic commentary -- Design for designers -- Alphabet as metaphor -- Shouts and murmurs -- Making book -- Cut-up letters -- Envisioned environments -- Valuable paper -- Angular composition -- Youth culture -- Rebus writing -- Anthropomorphic frolic -- Sensual stare -- Spreading out -- Cautionary words -- Multiple layers -- Kinetic overprints -- Object photography -- Clips and fragments -- Text blocks -- Distort and distress -- Designing character -- Sky writing -- Visualizing music -- Chicken scratching -- More book tricks -- Stock stories -- Hyperactive interactivity -- Head case -- Pixel power -- Backward forward -- Sticker culture -- Pod-style -- Shape |
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shifters -- Swirls and curls -- Bad marks. |
| Summary |
A history of graphic design that charts over a century of creative brilliance, showcasing the most influential graphic designs from 1900 to the present. Organized chronologically to illustrate how one great concept can inspire the next, each year features a seminal piece of work by a graphic artist some famous, some anonymous the designs that originally inspired them and later works that show their influence. |
| Subject |
Graphic arts -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Ilić, Mirko, 1956-
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| ISBN |
9780500287293 paperback |
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0500287295 paperback |
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