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A Century of Graphic Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

A Century of Graphic Design

  • Categories: Art

The twentieth century was a landmark era in graphic design, the art that combines words with graphic images on posters, book and magazine covers, record jackets, billboards, and other print advertising and publicity media. This visually magnificent and factually informative volume tells the story of graphic design, then gives separate illustrated thumbnail biographies of more than 100 of the most influential and internationally known designers of the past 100 years. From the century's early decades we find artists' profiles and reproductions from the studios of Peter Behrens, Alexander Rodchenko, the Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a sampling of Art Deco, and much more. Examples of Mid-Century ...

Imagined Interiors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Imagined Interiors

Now available in paperback, Imagined Interiors presents an extraordinarily diverse body of visual and textual material, suggesting fresh histories of the home, its contents and representation, and appealing to all who are interested in art history, interior design, social history and the decorative arts.

Graphic Design in Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Graphic Design in Germany

A sweeping and comprehensive catalogue of the graphic arts in Germany from 1890 through World War II, this handsome oversized volume also deals with the methodology of art as a medium of persuasion.

Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design

New design experiment - Bauhaus - Art Deco - Studio Boggeri - Hendrik Werkman - Pop subversion and alternatives - Late modern and postmodernism - Design in the digital era.

Design and the Modern Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Design and the Modern Magazine

  • Categories: Art

This edited work places design at the centre of our understanding of how magazines appear the way they do. It includes case-studies of consumer titles (Woman, Time Out) and those aimed at special interest readers (Design, Vogue, Crafts).

Designing Modern Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Designing Modern Germany

German design and architecture reflects the country’s rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley now offers an in-depth study of this relationship between German history and design since 1870 and the complex principles underlying it. Designing Modern Germany reveals how German attitudes toward national identity, modernity and technology are crucial to understanding German design. Aynsley traces the historical development of German design, beginning in the 1870s with the first dedicated Arts and Crafts schools and stretching through to the famous institutions of the Bauhaus and the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung. He analyses the works of lea...

Nationalism and Internationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 76

Nationalism and Internationalism

Nationalism and Internationalism looks at the way designers have addressed the national and international context of their work during this century. Text and 66 illustrations demonstrate the positive response to avant-garde ideas and belief in the social relevance of designs on an international level. By contrast, the varied responses to materials, techniques and sources of ideas to reinforce national identity are also considered.

Moderne
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Moderne

Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and complex and varied textures has made this work a lasting favorite among interior designers, architects, and their clients. When it first appeared, the got moderne, or modern taste, was marketed through limited-edition portfolios containing unbound drawings, printed in full color using a traditional process called pochoir. Created in an era before color photography, the vivid gouache and watercolor d...

Material Memories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Material Memories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This illustrated book is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture by providing an interdisciplinary forum for its analysis.

Jan Tschichold and the New Typography
  • Language: en

Jan Tschichold and the New Typography

An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902-1974), a prolific designer, writer, and theorist, stood at the forefront of a revolution in visual culture that made printed material more elemental and dynamic. His designs were applied to everyday graphics, from billboard advertisements and business ...