Product Description: During the 20th century, the marketing of domestic appliances and office machines has been directed primarily toward women. Mechanical Brides examines this phenomenon through extensive graphics (advertisements, catalog pages, photographs) and analytical text. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Densely and colorfully illustrated, Mixing Messages is the most comprehensive overview and critical analysis of American graphic design from the past fifteen years. (view table of contents)

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An award-winning study of how visual communication has shaped the modern perception of the world chronologically traces the evolution of the graphic form from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and into the technological age, in a volume that considers the impact of such capabilities as printing, typography, and graphic design.

Product Description: With its first issue in January of 1918 Wendingen set a new standard in arts publishing. The pioneering journal sought out the newest ideas by the most creative practitioners in all of the visual arts--architecture, graphics, typography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and theatrical design--and then reproduced them in sumptuous, hand-bound editions of unparalleled beauty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The assignment: Graphically interpret a single word.The rule: Do it in a five-inch by five-inch square.The results: A visual smorgasbord of inspiration.A dynamic exercise in creativity, The Word It Book works on three levels: as a collection of stimulating challenges, a compendium of contemporary design, and a look behind the creative process of successful designers...read more