Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman: 1700-1914

by David Jury

Book Overview

A comprehensive retellingof the history of printingfrom 1700 to 1914 and acornucopia of visual andtechnical extravagance Who first coined the phrase "graphic design," a term dating from the 1920s,or first referred to themselves as a "graphic designer" are issues still arguedto this day. What is certain is that the kinds of printed material a graphicdesigner could create were around long before the formulation of such aconvenient, if sometimes troublesome,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500516464
• ISBN13: 9780500516461
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 11.9"