Foreword from A history of graphic design first edition -- Introduction by Rob Carter -- Contributing essays : Growing up with Phil / Bill Meggs -- The collaboration / Libby Meggs -- Life by design: from ephemeral to historical / Elizabeth Meggs -- Philip B. Meggs, a memoir / Alston Purvis -- America's first graphic design historian / Steven Heller -- Fond personal memories and warm professional recollections / R. Roger Remington -- Philip B. Meggs: a personal remembrance / Roy McKelvey -- Selected writings and lectures : Marshall McLuhan lecture notes -- Novum education: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond -- George Tscherny -- The demilitarization of graphic design -- Graphic design history: discipline or anarchy? -- Design education: pedagogy vs. the real world -- The Swiss influence: the old New Wave -- Toulouse-Lautrec: superb but not alone -- High style, Low style, vile style -- An oracle of the 21st-century book -- What is American about American graphic design? -- Government style: design consciousness and the Feds -- ITC bashing -- Test your typographic IQ -- Louis Prang: the man who brought out the artist in children -- A pantheon of design eccentricity -- Farewell to the opulent eighties -- Future issues in graphic design education -- The women who saved New York -- The obscene typography machine -- The 1940s: rise of the modernists -- Excerpts from Type & image -- Saul Bass on corporate identity -- The design education quandary -- The vitality of risk -- The designer, paper, and the environment -- Landmarks of book design, second of a series: For the voice -- The last word on the Walker show -- Women's place: two at the top -- Peter Behrens: design's man of the century? -- Tibor the pit bull -- Landmarks of book design, fourth in a series: The elements of Euclid -- I am type! revised -- Introduction to Typographic specimens: the great typefaces -- Yin/yang and the art of graphic design -- Landmarks of book design, seventh in a series: American typefounders specimen book and catalogue, 1923 -- Tribute to an unrepentant modernist -- Landmarks of book design, eighth in a series: The bold soprano -- Required reading for the millennium -- Methods and philosophy in design history research -- Back talk: Philip B. Meggs, design historian -- Landmarks of book design, tenth in a series: Before rosebud was a sled -- Excerpt from Fotografiks -- Letters to Print: critical mass -- Letters to Print: departed icons -- Foreword to Revival of the fittest -- Introduction to The allure of postage stamps -- Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The mechanical bride by Marshall McLuhan -- Epilogue from A history of graphic design, first edition -- Chronology -- The complete published writings -- [Biographies].
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