Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art) - Softcover

Hollis, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202702 ISBN 13: 9780500202708

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1994

Synopsis

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 roots in the development of printing to become a profession and a discipline in its own right. This documentary history encompasses a vast range of media: printed posters; brochures and magazines; film, television and video; corporate identity. Reproduction techniques are fully treated, including lithography, photomontage, airbrushing, photography and computer-generated images.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Hollis is a former freelance graphic designer, and worked as a printer, art editor, production manager, teacher and lecturer. He studied art and typography at the Chelsea, Wimbledon and Central Schools of Art, London. From 1958 he taught lithography and design at the London College of Printing and Chelsea School of Art, before working in Paris in the early 1960s. From 1964 to 1967 he was Head of the Graphic Design Department at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, and was for six years Senior Lecturer at the Central School of Art and Design.

Review

[M]any reproductions not seen in other histories and the stories, briskly told, often add new insight to familiar tales. -- Communication Arts

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500202702
• ISBN 13: 9780500202708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224