Includes bibliographical references (p. 220) and index.
Contents:
Monographs. Emily King. Introduction / Jason Godfrey -- Typography. Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography / Spécimen Général: Tome 1 -- Die Neue Typrographie / Jan Tschichold -- Modern and Historical Typography / Imre Reiner -- Letter as a Work of Art / Dr Gerard Knuttel -- Manuale Typographicum / Hermann Zapf -- Encyclopaedia of Type Faces / W. Turner Berry, A.F. Johnson, W.P. Jaspert -- Alphabet Thesaurus Nine Thousand -- Atlas of Typeforms / James Sutton, Alan Bartram -- Wood 2 -- American Wood Type: 1828-1900 / Rob Roy Kelly -- Letraset -- Constructed Roman Alphabet / David Lance Goines -- Igarashi Alphabets / Takenobu Igarashi -- London's Handwriting / Colin Banks -- Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface / Lars Müller -- Sourcebooks. Handbook of Designs and Devices / Clarence Pl Hornung -- Printed Ephemera / John Lewis -- Semiologie Graphique / Jacques Bertin -- Letter and Image / Robert Massin -- Trade Marks & Symbols / Yasaburo Kuwayama -- Label Designs / Claude Humbert -- Symbol Sourcebook / Henry Dreyfuss -- Handbook of Pictorial Symbols / Rudolf Modiey -- Words and Buildings / Jock Kinneir -- Dictionary of Visual Language / Philip Thompson, Peter Davenport -- Old Advertising Cuts from A-Z / Charles S. Anderson -- Today's Hieroglyphs / Hans-Rudolf Lutz -- Alphabets & Other Signs / Julian Rothenstein, Mel Gooding (editors) -- Instructional. Layout in Advertising / W.A. Dwiggins -- Mise en Page / Alfred Tolmer -- Colour in Advertising / Joseph Binder -- Language of Vision / György Kepes -- Vision in Motion / László Moholy-Nagy -- Graphic Artist and His Design Problems / Josef Müller-Brockmann -- Typography / Aaron Burns -- Typography: Basic Principles / John Lewis -- Graphic Design Manual / Armin Hofmann -- Visual Presentation of Invisible Processes / Anton Stankowski -- Typography / Emil Ruder -- Sign Systems Manual / Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes -- Grid Systems in Graphic Design / Josef Muller-Brockmann -- Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Edward R. Tufte -- Notes on Book Design / Derek Birdsall -- Histories. New Graphic Art / Karl Gerstner, Markus Kutter -- Functional Graphic Design in the 20's / Eckhard Neumann -- Pioneers of Modern Typography / Herbert Spencer -- Images of an Era / John Garrigan, Margaret Cogswell, Milton Glaser, Dore Ashton, Alan Gowans -- Language of Graphics / Edward Booth-Clibborn, Daniele Baroni -- History of Graphic Design / Philip B. Meggs -- Bauhaus: Drucksachen, Typografie, Reklame / Gerd Fleischmann -- Typography: When Who How / Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott, Bernard Stein -- Graphic Styles / Steven Heller, Seymour Chwast -- Graphic Design: A Concise History / Richard Hollis -- Anthologies. Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design / Egbert Jacobson (editor) -- Polski Plakat Filmowy / Tadeusz Kowalski (editor) -- Graphic Design: Visual Comparisons / Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Bob Gill -- Publicity and Graphic Design in the Chemical Industry / Hans Neuburg -- Design Coordination and Corporate Image / F.H.K. Henrion, Alan Parkin -- Graphis Diagrams / Walter Herdeg (editor) -- Top Graphic Design / F.H.K. Henrion -- Liberated Page / Herbert Spencer (editor) -- Typography Now / Edward Booth-Clibborn, Why Not Associates, Rick Poynor -- Carouschka's Tickets / Carouschka Streijffert, Peter Kihlgard -- Monographs. Thoughts on Design / Paul Rand -- Esposizioni e Mostre / Erberto Carboni -- Visual Design in Action / Ladislav Sutnar -- Love and Joy about Letters / Ben Shahn -- Milton Glaser: Graphic Design / Milton Glaser -- Graphic Design of Yusaku Kamekura / Yusaku Kamekura -- Jan Tschichold: Typographer / Ruari McLean -- Art of Advertising / George Lois, Bill Pitts -- Complete Tadanori Yokoo / Tadanori Yokoo -- 'Walk Away Rene' / Geroge Hardie, Storm Thorgerson -- Living by Design / Partners of Pentagram, Peter Gorb (editor) -- Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned about Graphic Design, Including the Ones in this Book / Bob Gill -- Lo Studio Boggeri: 1933-1981 / Bruno Monguzzi (editor) -- Paul Rand: A Designer's Art / Paul Rand -- Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer / Gertrude Snyder, Alan Peckolick -- Cassandre / Henri Mouron -- Left-Handed Designer -- Seymour Chwast -- Dorfsman & CBS / Dick Hess, Marion Muller -- Art of Graphic Design / Bradbury Thompson -- Graphic Language of Neville Brody / Neville Brody, Jon Wozencroft -- Brodovitch / Andy Grundberg -- Siegfried Odermatt & Rosmarie Tissi: Graphic Design / Odermatt & Tissi, Jack Waser, Werner M. Wolf (editors) -- Nova: 1965-1975 / David Hillman, Harri Peccinotti, David Gibbs (editor) -- End of Print / Robin Kinross, Jaap van Triest, Karel Martens (editors) -- Wim Crouwel: Mode en Module / Frederike Huygen, Hugues C. Boekraad -- I Am Almost Always Hungry / Cahan & Associates -- Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist / Peter Hall, Michael Bierut (editors) -- Weingart: Typography / Wolfgang Weingart -- Maeda @ Media / John Maeda -- Art of Looking Sideways / Alan Fletcher -- Sagmeister: Made You Look / Peter Hall -- Make it Bigger / Paula Scher -- Designed by Peter Saville / Emily King (editor) -- 8vo: On the Outside / Mark Holt, Hamish Muir -- Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography / Emily King.
Summary:
A compilation of design books of the last one hundred years covers a range of material, from historic titles to recent works by leading studios.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.