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Meggs' history of graphic design
| Publisher: | Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2013. |
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| Edition/Format: |  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats |
| Summary: | Winner of the First-Ever QED (Quality, Excellence, Design) award by Digital Book World This is the unrivaled, comprehensive, and award-winning reference tool on graphic design recognized for publishing excellence by the Association of American Publishers. Now, this Fifth Edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design offers even more detail and breadth of content than its heralded predecessors, revealing a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important developments responsible for paving the historic paths that define the graphic design experience. In addition to classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and postmodern design, this new Fifth Edition presents new information on current trends and technologies sweeping the graphic design landscape'such as the web, multimedia, interactive design, and private presses, thus adding new layers of depth to an already rich resource. With more than 1,400 high-quality images throughout'many new or newly updated'Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition provides a wealth of visual markers for inspiration and emulation. For professionals, students, and everyone who works with or loves the world of graphic design, this landmark text will quickly become an invaluable guide that they will turn to again and again. Read more... |
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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Meggs, Philip B. Meggs' History of Graphic Design. Somerset : Wiley, ©2011 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Alston W Purvis; Philip B Meggs
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| ISBN: | 9781118017760 1118017765 |
| OCLC Number: | 864903286 |
| Notes: | Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed November 21, 2013). |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Contents: | ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""How to Use this E-book""; ""Preface""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I The Prologue to Graphic Design: The visual message from prehistory through the medieval era""; ""1: The Invention of Writing""; ""Prehistoric visual communications""; ""The cradle of civilization""; ""The earliest writing""; ""Mesopotamian visual identification""; ""Egyptian hieroglyphs""; ""Papyrus and writing""; ""The first illustrated manuscripts""; ""Egyptian visual identification""; ""2: Alphabets""; ""Cretan pictographs""; ""The North Semitic alphabet"" ""The Aramaic alphabet and its descendants""""The Greek alphabet""; ""The Latin alphabet""; ""The Korean alphabet""; ""3: The Asian Contribution""; ""Chinese calligraphy""; ""The invention of paper""; ""The discovery of printing""; ""The invention of movable type""; ""4: Illuminated Manuscripts""; ""The classical style""; ""Celtic book design""; ""The Caroline graphic renewal""; ""Spanish pictorial expressionism""; ""Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts""; ""Judaic manuscripts""; ""Islamic manuscripts""; ""Late medieval illuminated manuscripts"" ""Part II A Graphic Renaissance: The origins of European typography and design for printing""""5: Printing Comes to Europe""; ""Early European block printing""; ""Movable typography in Europe""; ""Copperplate engraving""; ""6: The German Illustrated Book""; ""Origins of the illustrated typographic book""; ""Nuremberg becomes a printing center""; ""The further development of the German illustrated book""; ""Typography spreads from Germany""; ""7: Renaissance Graphic Design""; ""Graphic design of the Italian Renaissance""; ""Italian writing masters""; ""Innovation passes to France"" ""Basel and Lyons become design centers""""The seventeenth century""; ""8: An Epoch of Typographic Genius""; ""Graphic design of the rococo era""; ""Caslon and Baskerville""; ""The origins of information graphics""; ""The imperial designs of Louis René Luce""; ""The modern style""; ""The illuminated printing of William Blake""; ""The epoch closes""; ""Part III The Bridge to the Twentieth Century: The Industrial Revolution: The impact of industrial technology upon visual communications""; ""9: Graphic Design and the Industrial Revolution""; ""Innovations in typography"" ""The wood-type poster""""A revolution in printing""; ""The mechanization of typography""; ""Photography, the new communications tool""; ""The inventors of photography""; ""The application of photography to printing""; ""Defining the medium""; ""Photography as reportage""; ""Popular graphics of the Victorian era""; ""The development of lithography""; ""The Boston school of chromolithography""; ""The design language of chromolithography""; ""The battle on the signboards""; ""Images for children""; ""The rise of American editorial and advertising design""; ""Victorian typography"" |
| Responsibility: | Alston W. Purvis and Philip B. Meggs. |
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Winner of the First-Ever QED (Quality, Excellence, Design) award by Digital Book World This is the unrivaled, comprehensive, and award-winning reference tool on graphic design recognized for publishing excellence by the Association of American Publishers. Now, this Fifth Edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design offers even more detail and breadth of content than its heralded predecessors, revealing a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important developments responsible for paving the historic paths that define the graphic design experience. In addition to classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and postmodern design, this new Fifth Edition presents new information on current trends and technologies sweeping the graphic design landscape'such as the web, multimedia, interactive design, and private presses, thus adding new layers of depth to an already rich resource. With more than 1,400 high-quality images throughout'many new or newly updated'Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition provides a wealth of visual markers for inspiration and emulation. For professionals, students, and everyone who works with or loves the world of graphic design, this landmark text will quickly become an invaluable guide that they will turn to again and again.
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