Graphic Design: A Concise History

by Richard Hollis

Book Overview

The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and most important in the history of 20th-century visual culture. Created to inform, identify and promote, graphic design has evolved from its... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500203474
• ISBN13: 9780500203477
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Best Graphic Design History Book!

This book has condensed design history into a tangible yet informative format. I visit this book often for reference and inspiration.

Comprehensive book

First: it is great book full of a lot of examples and connections. And I love it and I can recomend it for everyone who wants to know something about graphic design. But sometimes it lost connection between graphic and polictic, which is important in 1920s and 1930s.

A must read...

for design students. The book gives a complete analysis of the graphic design's history.

follow the arrow

insightful, full of samples (about 800 though largely black & white) a great guide to graphic styles, and the key movers & shakers in the history of graphic design right through from the 1890s to the 1990s.a huge resource for such a little book, definately worth reading if not just to look at the pictures...

Great reference for Graphic Design history.

This is an excellent guide to the history of graphic design. I really enjoyed reading this insightful view of graphic design. It has lots of useful information on the history of graphic design from early posters to the electronic age. I have found this as a good book for my study as an art student. I would recomend this to anyone interested in graphic design history or if you are thinking of the graphic arts industry.