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The story of graphic design : from the invention of writing to the birth of digital design / Patrick Cramsie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cramsie, Paddy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic arts--History.
- Graphic arts.
- History.
- Graphic design (Typography)--History.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Commercial art--History.
- Commercial art.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : graphic design & style
- Design and sign : the origin of the alphabet, c.34,000-1,100 BC
- A classical education : Ancient Greece & Rome, c. 2000BC-c.AD350
- Spreading the word : illuminated manuscripts, c.350-c.1500
- The black art : the birth of painting & early German printing, c.1455-c.1530
- Back to the future : Renaissance Italy & France, c.1460-c.1600
- Popular publishing : Dutch Renaissance & popular prints, c.1530-c.1700
- Purity in print : Rococo, transitional & modern, c.1700-c.1820
- The tools of trade : display types & Victorian design, c.1800-c.1880
- Manufacturing the Middle Ages : Neo-Gothic & the arts and crafts, c.1840-c.1910
- The style of the street : Art Nouveau, c.1880-c.1914
- The simple art of war : Sachplakat & First World War graphics, c.1880-c.1920
- The isms of art : Futurism, Dada, De Stijl & Constructivism, c. 1900-c.1930
- Form and function : Bauhaus & the new typography, c.1919-c.1933
- The weight of tradition : traditional typography, c.1910-c.1947
- Good design is good business : commercial Modernism, c.1920-c.1960
- Systems and signs : Swiss typography, c.1945-c.1972
- Handmade and homespun : illustrated Modernism & Psychedelia, c.1950-c.1970
- Tearing it up : punk, c.1975-c.1985
- Less is a bore : New Wave & Postmodernism, c.1970-c.1990
- Printing with pixels : digital Expressionism & postscript, the digital future, c.1984-.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810972926
- 0810972921
- OCLC:
- 430838768
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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