Graphic Design in America
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Published: 1989
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ISBN-13: 9780810910362
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Graphic Design America Two
Author: D. K. Holland
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume displays the work of 37 of the best designers and design firms from across the United States. Organized by DK Holland of the Pushpin with Chip Kidd and Jessica Helfand, the selection presents such firms as Looking, Los Angeles; Post Tool, San Francisco, Modern Dog, Seattle; Carlos Segura, Chicago; Go Media, Austin Texas; Greteman Design, Wichita, Kansas; P. Scott Makela, Minneapolis; Werner Design Works, Minneapolis; and Design!, Atlanta.
The Moderns
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 2261
ISBN-13: 168335012X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity. Some were émigrés from Europe; others were homegrown—all were intoxicated by elemental typography, primary colors, photography, and geometric or biomorphic forms. Some are well-known, others are honored in this volume for the first time, and together they comprised a movement that changed our design world.
The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870-1920
Author: Burton Raffel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780300068351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time the phrase "graphic design" first appeared in print in 1922, design professionals in America had already created a discipline combining visual art with mass communication. In this book, Ellen Mazur Thomson examines for the first time the early development of the graphic design profession. It has been thought that graphic design emerged as a profession only when European modernism arrived in America in the 1930s, yet Thomson shows that the practice of graphic design began much earlier. Shortly after the Civil War, when the mechanization of printing and reproduction technology transformed mass communication, new design practices emerged. Thomson investigates the development of these practices from 1870 to 1920, a time when designers came to recognize common interests and create for themselves a professional identity. What did the earliest designers do, and how did they learn to do it? What did they call themselves? How did they organize them-selves and their work? Drawing on an array of original period documents, the author 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.
Classic Typefaces
Author: David Consuegra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 894
ISBN-13: 1621535827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.
American Modernism
Author: R. Roger Remington
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780300098167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an account of a key period in American graphic design as it manifested itself in various media, covering major historical influences and significant works.
American Graphic Design and Advertising 25
Author: David E. Carter
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-01-05
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0061836893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addition to the 20 categories the American Corporate Identity Series has traditionally presented, the new book will now include the best of the following design categories: Advertising (print - magazine ads, etc.), Advertising (Web), Billboards, Direct Mail, Posters, Publication Design, Typography, Logos, Retail Environments The new categories are in addition to the corporate identity categories that have made this annual a success: Complete Corporate Identity Programs, Packaging, Tags, Bags, Labels, & Boxes, Business Cards, Stationery, Announcements, Cards & Invitations, Promotions, Wearables, Menus, Brochures, Annual Reports, Calendars, CDs, Web sites, Signage & Environmental Graphics, Trade Show Displays, Green/Sustainable Designs, Corporate Identity Manuals, Trademarks & Logos, Student Work Several hundred creative design firms have work included in American Advertising and Design 25, ranging from the well known to the up-and-coming. Many trendsetting styles have first appeared in this series since its inception, making this book the must-have reference for every designer′s book shelf.
World Graphic Design
Author: Geoffrey Caban
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-ever designer-by-designer survey of contemporary graphic design outside the Western tradition. With an informative critical profile and full contact details of each designer and studio, and over a dozen illustrated examples of their recent output. World Graphic Design is an essential reference for anyone involved in graphic design worldwide.
Type and Image
Author: Philip B. Meggs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1992-03-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780471284925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKType and Image The Language of Graphic Design Philip B. Meggs What is the essence of graphic design? How do graphic designers solve problems, organize space, and imbue their work with those visual and symbolic qualities that enable it to convey visual and verbal information with expression and clarity? The extraordinary flowering of graphic design in our time, as a potent means for communication and a major component of our visual culture, increases the need for designers, clients, and students to comprehend its nature. In this lively and lavishly illustrated book, the author reveals the very essence of graphic design. The elements that combine to form a design— sings, symbols, words, pictures, and supporting forms—are analyzed and explained. Graphic design’s ability to function as language, and the innovative ways that designers combine words and pictures, are discussed. While all visual arts share common spatial properties, the author demonstrates that graphic space has unique characteristics that are determined by its communicative function. Graphic designs can have visual and symbolic properties which empower them to communicate with deep expression and meaning. The author defines this property as graphic resonance and explains how it occurs. After defining design as a problem-solving process, a model for this process is developed and illustrated by an in-depth analysis of actual case histories. This book will provide insight and inspiration for everyone who is interested or involved in graphic communications. While most materials about form and meaning in design have a European origin, this volume is based on the dynamic and expressive graphic design of America. The reader will find inspiration, hundreds of exciting examples by many of America’s outstanding graphic designers, and keen insights in Type and Image.
How Design Makes Us Think
Author: Sean Adams
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1648960286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom posters to cars, design is everywhere. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper to unearth the ways design can overtly, and covertly, convince us of a certain way of thinking. How Design Makes Us Think collects hundreds of examples across graphic design, product design, industrial design, and architecture to illustrate how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger, or reassure us. Graphic designer Sean Adams walks us through the power of design to attract attention and convey meaning. The book delves into the sociological, psychological, and historical reasons for our responses to design, offering practitioners and clients alike a new appreciation of their responsibility to create design with the best intentions. How Design Makes Us Think is an essential read for designers, advertisers, marketing professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how the design around us makes us think, feel, and do things.
