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Hardcover:
9781118772058 | 6 har/psc edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 9, 2016), cover price $95.00
9780470168738 | 5th edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 22, 2011), cover price $95.00
Product Description: Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition, nowoffers a Wiley E-Text: Powered by VitalSource with InteractiveResource Center registration card. Wiley E-Texts are built inpartnership with Vital Source Technologies with many Featuresand Benefits:Search to locate key conceptsHighlight as you readMake notes for revisionNotes and Highlights will synchronize across all devicesShare notes with othersThe Interactive Resource Center is an online learningenvironment where instructors and students can access the toolsthey need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcingand assessing their understanding of key concepts for successfulunderstanding of the course...read more
Hardcover:
9781118922231 | 5 psc edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 7, 2014), cover price $66.50 | About this edition: Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition, nowoffers a Wiley E-Text: Powered by VitalSource with InteractiveResource Center registration card.
Product Description: NOTE: This ISBN Includes Access card and not the Print Book The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course...read more
Hardcover:
9781118922248 | 5 psc edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 31, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: NOTE: This ISBN Includes Access card and not the Print Book The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course.
Product Description: This complete international history of poster design from the Art Nouveau to the present covers all of the significant developments in poster design, and every important type of poster, from wine and war to rock and rebellion. One thousand posters illustrate the work of virtually every significant artist and graphic designer who ever created a memorable poster, including a generous selection of contemporary work...read more
Paperback:
9780810995888 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2010, cover price $35.00 | also contains Posters! 1,000 | About this edition: This complete international history of poster design from the Art Nouveau to the present covers all of the significant developments in poster design, and every important type of poster, from wine and war to rock and rebellion.
Product Description: Know your type: A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: 1628–1938 This book offers a connoisseur’s overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts...read more
Hardcover:
9783836515146, titled "Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1901-1938" | Mul edition (Taschen America Llc, March 30, 2010), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2 This book offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing.
Paperback:
9783836544801 | Slp mul edition (Taschen America Llc, September 15, 2013), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Know your type: A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: 1628–1938 This book offers a connoisseur’s overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing.
Product Description: Erstmalig publiziert: Das Plakat-Werk des renommierten Grafikers und Typografen. Das vorliegende Buch setzt sich analytisch mit dem Plakat-Werk Tschicholds auseinander. Dabei werden sowohl seine eigene Plakat-Sammlung, die u.a. Werke von Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy und Oskar Schlemmer beinhaltet, als auch die ca...read more
Paperback:
9783764376031 | Birkhauser Architecture, September 30, 2009, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Erstmalig publiziert: Das Plakat-Werk des renommierten Grafikers und Typografen.
Hardcover:
9780470591659 | 4 pck har/ edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 8, 2009), cover price $178.95
Product Description: For the first time: the posters of the celebrated graphic artist and typographer. This book is an analytical examination of Tschichold’s posters. It contains his own collection of posters, with works by Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and others, as well as the approximately 70 posters he designed himself...read more
Paperback:
9783764376048 | Birkhauser Architecture, June 3, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: For the first time: the posters of the celebrated graphic artist and typographer.
Hardcover:
9780500512296 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Accessible and easy to use, this handy reference book gives a detailed visual record of the evolution of typefaces over the last century, focusing in particular on developments in the last fifteen years.
Product Description: Dutch designer and printmaker Hendrik Werkman (18821945) is best known for his innovative printing techniques and avant-garde typography. As publisher of De Blauwe Schuitt, a series of underground booklets produced by Jewish dissident poets and writers during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Werkman was imprisoned by German secret police in 1945 and executed without trial just three days before the country’s liberation...read more
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9780300102901 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Dutch designer and printmaker Hendrik Werkman (18821945) is best known for his innovative printing techniques and avant-garde typography.
Product Description: With over five hundred color reproductions, Graphic Design 20th Century represents a pictorial history of the last hundred years in graphic design. Alston Purvis presents all the significant designers of the twentieth century as well as the many styles that characterized this rich and tumultuous period: Art Nouveau, Arts and Craft, the Viennese Secession, the Russian Avant-Garde, Punk, New Wave, and computer graphics are just a few of the subjects discussed in this essential reference book...read more
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9781568984148 | Princeton Architectural Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: With over five hundred color reproductions, Graphic Design 20th Century represents a pictorial history of the last hundred years in graphic design.
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Paperback:
9780853318637 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $50.00
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)
Hardcover:
9781568982762 | 1 edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: With its first issue in January of 1918 Wendingen set a new standard in arts publishing.
Hardcover:
9780442004446 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, July 1, 1992, cover price $46.95 | also contains Where Do I End and You Begin? | About this edition: This volume traces the graphic design history that took place in the Netherlands between the two World Wars.
9780471284048 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 1, 1992, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: One of the most exciting periods in design history took place in the Netherlands between the two World Wars.
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