Abstract/Summary

This is an illustrated volume covering five hundred graphic design projects created since the advent of mechanical reproduction. It is an authoritative selection of newspapers, magazines, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record and CD covers and moving graphics from around the world, which have created a benchmark for excellence and innovation. Katherine Gillieson contributed entries on subjects including: Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847), the Picture Post magazine (1938-1957), Bruce Mau's book S, M, L, XL (1995), the typeface Chicago (1984), the book 'L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant (1931), Sutnar's Catalogue Design Progress (1950), Wim Crouwel's Vormgevers (1968), the Bauhaus seal, Mallarmé's Un coup de dés (1897/1914) the Futurist poem Le coeur à barbe (1922), the skull and crossbones symbol, the pie chart, the Volkswagen logo, the Braun logo, the journal Dot Dot Dot, Müller-Brockmann's book The Graphic Designer and His Design Problems (1961), and the Ford logo.