San Antonio College Library

"Author Steven Heller continues his engaging exploration of the significance and histories of various objects of design and their impact on both the particular and broader cultural environments in which they exist. Grouped into the collective themes of propaganda, media, language, and commerce, the objects discussed range from Zap Comix to Cold War graphics to Leo Lionni's children's books to au courant magazines of the 1990s. This volume also investigates...

"This volume presents, in chronological order, the milestones of graphic design history. Starting with the dawn of modern graphic design - the final decade of the nineteenth century - authors Steven Heller and Elinor Pettit have sifted through the developments of the last 110 years, and serve up a compendium of events that have shaped both graphic design and the larger world. By studying the two-page spreads devoted to each year of the last century,...

"The past twenty years have seen profound changes in the field of graphic communication. One by one, old certainties about the techniques and purposes of graphic design have been questioned and collapsed. No More Rules is the first critical survey to offer a complete overview of the graphic revolution during the postmodern period." "According to design critic Rick Poynor, changes in graphic work were already well underway by the early 1980s, even...

Examines the nineteenth-century development of photography and phototechnology as the dominant visual medium in America

This comprehensive illustrated history begins with the origins of the alphabet itself and carries the reader through the first handwritten books, the invention of printing in the Renaissance, the explosion of graphic styles (and printed media) in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the impact of digital technology on design today. This work explores the evolution of styles under the pressure of social, cultural, and technological change, accompanied...

History of Illustration' covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of...

Provides an illustrated reference of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a professional club of the world's leading graphic designers and artists whose members, since its inception in 1951, have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally know packaging, publications, illustration and posters. This resource presents biographies of almost...

"Designers and lovers of graphic imagery will delight in this exploration into the use of humor and wit in graphic design. Ranging from the first satiric cave drawings to the quirky humor of Pushpin studios, the book explores what makes wit and humor such valuable tools in graphic design and explains how to communicate effectively through the use of visual puns, ironic images, and type play. Compiling some of the most clever and acerbic pieces from...

Herbert Spencer's text examines what led up to the new concepts in graphic design and carefully disentangles the respective influences of Futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of crucial contributions to the new typography - from Apollinaire to Zwart - and the book's documentation includes biographical notes on the key figures.