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Graphic design history / edited by Steven Heller and Georgette Balance.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Allworth Press, c2001.Description: 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1581150946 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NC998.4 .G667 2001
Contents:
Introduction : the beginning of history / Steven Heller -- American graphic design expression : the evolution of American typography / Katherine McCoy -- A history of design, a history of concerns / Jorge Frascara -- Construction work / Victor Margolin -- Wheels of fortune / William Owen -- Two magazines of the turbulent '60s : a '90s perspective / Philip B. Meggs -- Post-Saturday Evening Post : magazine design and its dis-contents / Ellen Lupton -- Esquire and its art directors : a survivor's tale / Steven Heller -- Kicking up a little dust / Michael Dooley.
Lester Beall : a creative genius of the simple truth / R. Roger Remington -- On Merle Armitage : the impresario of book design / Roy R. Behrens -- Heartfield in context / Maud Lavin -- Peter Behrens : design's man of the century? / Philip B. Meggs -- Lucien Bernhard : the master who couldn't draw straight / Steven Heller -- The search for Georg Olden / Julie Lasky -- An eminent pre-modernist : the curious case of T.M. Cleland / Philip B. Meggs -- H.N. Werkman : the outsider / Alston W. Purvis -- Alvin Lustig : born modern / Steven Heller.
Fortunato Depero : cheering up the universe / Steven Heller -- Cipe Pineles : artist as art director / Martha Scotford -- Massin ahead of time / John Gall and Steven Brower -- Alexander Liberman : on overcoming aesthetics / Veronique Vienne -- The brand named Walter Landor : historical view / Veronique Vienne -- Helene Gordon-Lazareff : the tsarina who was Elle / Veronique Vienne -- A retrospective : Herbert Matter / Armin Hofmann -- Dan Friedman : the design world's favorite enigma / Steven Holt -- The visual thinker Henry Wolf! / Michael Kaplan.
For the voice / Philip B. Meggs -- Bauhaus in Dessau / Rudolf Arnheim -- Piet Zwart's NKF catalog / Philip B. Meggs -- The bald soprano / Philip B. Meggs -- A brave new world : understanding deconstruction / Chuck Byrne and Martha Witte -- The advertising of Magritte/the Magritte in advertising / Georges Roque -- Film posters by Moscow's Stenberg Brothers, 1923-33 / Christopher Mount -- Souls on fire / Michele Y. Washington -- Polemics and politics, American style / Steven Heller -- The rise and fall of design at a great corporation / Philip B. Meggs.
Advertising : the mother of graphic design / Steven Heller -- Ad campaign of the century / Eve M. Kahn -- A certain commitment : art and design at the Royal PTT / Paul H. Hefting -- Renewal and upheaval : Dutch design between the wars / Alston W. Purvis -- Interview with Louis Danziger / Steven Heller.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the beginning of history / Steven Heller -- American graphic design expression : the evolution of American typography / Katherine McCoy -- A history of design, a history of concerns / Jorge Frascara -- Construction work / Victor Margolin -- Wheels of fortune / William Owen -- Two magazines of the turbulent '60s : a '90s perspective / Philip B. Meggs -- Post-Saturday Evening Post : magazine design and its dis-contents / Ellen Lupton -- Esquire and its art directors : a survivor's tale / Steven Heller -- Kicking up a little dust / Michael Dooley.

Lester Beall : a creative genius of the simple truth / R. Roger Remington -- On Merle Armitage : the impresario of book design / Roy R. Behrens -- Heartfield in context / Maud Lavin -- Peter Behrens : design's man of the century? / Philip B. Meggs -- Lucien Bernhard : the master who couldn't draw straight / Steven Heller -- The search for Georg Olden / Julie Lasky -- An eminent pre-modernist : the curious case of T.M. Cleland / Philip B. Meggs -- H.N. Werkman : the outsider / Alston W. Purvis -- Alvin Lustig : born modern / Steven Heller.

Fortunato Depero : cheering up the universe / Steven Heller -- Cipe Pineles : artist as art director / Martha Scotford -- Massin ahead of time / John Gall and Steven Brower -- Alexander Liberman : on overcoming aesthetics / Veronique Vienne -- The brand named Walter Landor : historical view / Veronique Vienne -- Helene Gordon-Lazareff : the tsarina who was Elle / Veronique Vienne -- A retrospective : Herbert Matter / Armin Hofmann -- Dan Friedman : the design world's favorite enigma / Steven Holt -- The visual thinker Henry Wolf! / Michael Kaplan.

For the voice / Philip B. Meggs -- Bauhaus in Dessau / Rudolf Arnheim -- Piet Zwart's NKF catalog / Philip B. Meggs -- The bald soprano / Philip B. Meggs -- A brave new world : understanding deconstruction / Chuck Byrne and Martha Witte -- The advertising of Magritte/the Magritte in advertising / Georges Roque -- Film posters by Moscow's Stenberg Brothers, 1923-33 / Christopher Mount -- Souls on fire / Michele Y. Washington -- Polemics and politics, American style / Steven Heller -- The rise and fall of design at a great corporation / Philip B. Meggs.

Advertising : the mother of graphic design / Steven Heller -- Ad campaign of the century / Eve M. Kahn -- A certain commitment : art and design at the Royal PTT / Paul H. Hefting -- Renewal and upheaval : Dutch design between the wars / Alston W. Purvis -- Interview with Louis Danziger / Steven Heller.

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