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Meggs' history of graphic design / Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis.

By: Meggs, Philip B [author.].
Contributor(s): Purvis, Alston W, 1943- [author.] | Meggs, Philip B. History of graphic design.
Publisher: Hoboken : Wiley, [2016]Edition: Sixth edition.Description: x, 680 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781118772058.Other title: History of graphic design.Subject(s): Graphic design (Typography) -- History | Book design -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
1. The invention of writing -- 2. Alphabets -- 3. The Asian contribution -- 4. Illuminated manuscripts -- 5. Printing comes to Europe -- 6. The German illustrated book -- 7. Renaissance graphic design -- 8. An epoch of typographic genius -- 9. Graphic design and the industrial revolution -- 10. The arts and crafts movement and its heritage -- 11. Art nouveau -- 12. The genesis of twentieth-century design -- 13. The influence of modern art -- 14. Pictorial modernism -- 15. A new language of form -- 16. The Bauhaus and the new typography -- 17. The modern movement in America -- 18. The international typographic style -- 19. The New York school -- 20. Corporate identity and visual systems -- 21. The conceptual image -- 22. Postmodern design -- 23. National visions within a global dialogue -- 24. The digital revolution and beyond.
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Revised edition of: A history of graphic design. ©1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-655) and index.

1. The invention of writing -- 2. Alphabets -- 3. The Asian contribution -- 4. Illuminated manuscripts -- 5. Printing comes to Europe -- 6. The German illustrated book -- 7. Renaissance graphic design -- 8. An epoch of typographic genius -- 9. Graphic design and the industrial revolution -- 10. The arts and crafts movement and its heritage -- 11. Art nouveau -- 12. The genesis of twentieth-century design -- 13. The influence of modern art -- 14. Pictorial modernism -- 15. A new language of form -- 16. The Bauhaus and the new typography -- 17. The modern movement in America -- 18. The international typographic style -- 19. The New York school -- 20. Corporate identity and visual systems -- 21. The conceptual image -- 22. Postmodern design -- 23. National visions within a global dialogue -- 24. The digital revolution and beyond.

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