Posted on February 26th, 2010 by brianno shouts
Product DescriptionDrawing on an array of original period documents, Thomson explores design activities in the printing, type founding, advertising, and publishing industries, setting the early history of graphic design in the context of American social history.
The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870-1920
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Posted on February 14th, 2010 by brianone shout
Product DescriptionThis book presents an unrivalled showcase of graphic design trends and initiatives from Latin America. “Graphic Design Worldwide” is an exciting new series that showcases a wide cross-section of the freshest, most innovative, and often surprising new graphic design trends and ideas from around the world. From flyers and posters to album-art illustrations, and from T-shirts to books and corporate logos – this volume presents the very best work from Latin America.
Latin America
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by brianone shout
Product DescriptionWorld Graphic Design is the first-ever survey of contemporary graphic design and designers outside the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, and Australasia. Organized into four main geographical regions or cultural zones – Africa, the Arab World, the Far East and Latin America – and then alphabetically by country and designer/studio within each zone, it focuses on the work being carried out today within the most popular genres of graphic design: posters, book and album covers, packaging and promotion. As graphic design in the developed world becomes increasingly focused on the same small pantheon of designers and the…
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by brianno shouts
Product DescriptionGraphic design has had a profound impact upon American life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essays by specialists in the field examine areas that include graphic design’s role as a social force as well as the effect of technological developments and political change.
Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History
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Posted on December 18th, 2009 by brianone shout
Product DescriptionThe latest installment in Rockport’s Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is wonderful, varied, and influential around the globe, which is the reason for the success of the first two books.
Each profile will feature a wide selection of the designers’ or design firms’ recent work that shows off a range of both their talents and breadth of style, as well as…
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