Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648960065 ISBN 13: 9781648960062

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2021

Synopsis

Baseline Shift captures the untold stories of women across time who used graphic design to earn a living while changing the world.

Baseline Shift centers diverse women across backgrounds whose work has shaped, shifted, and formed graphic design as we know it today. From an interdisciplinary book designer and calligrapher starting out in Harlem's Renaissance, to the invisible drafters of Monotype's drawing office, the women represented here include auteurs, advocates for social justice, and creators ahead of their time. The fifteen essays in this illustrated collection come from contributors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Baseline Shift is essential reading for students and practitioners of graphic design, as well as anyone with an interest in women's history.

About this title

About the Author

Briar Levit is a designer and associate professor of graphic design at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She conceived of, directed, and produced the feature-length documentary Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648960065
• ISBN 13: 9781648960062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Levit Briar