The Graphic Design Reader
Verlag | Bloomsbury Academic |
Auflage | 2019 |
Seiten | 1000 |
Format | 19,2 x 24,7 x 3,8 cm |
Gewicht | 2110 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1472526473 |
EAN | 9781472526472 |
Bestell-Nr | 47252647UA |
Provides a comprehensive overview of graphic design as a discipline, combining key readings with contextual editorial introductions and innovative visual essays.
Klappentext:
The Graphic Design Reader brings together key readings in this ever-changing field to provide an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners.Taking as its starting point an exploration of the way in which theory and practice and canons and anti-canons have operated within the discipline, the reader brings together writings by important international design critics, including Wendy Siuyi Wong, Dick Hebdige, April Greiman, and Victor Margolin.Extracts are structured into clear thematic sections addressing history; education and the profession; type and typography; critical writing and practice; political and social change; changing visual landscapes, and graphic design futures. Each section has a contextual introduction by the editors outlining key ideas and debates, as well as an annotated guide to further reading and a comprehensive bibliography.The Graphic Design Reader features original visual essays which provide a critical platform for understanding and inte rpreting graphic design practice, as well as a wealth of illustrations accompanying key historical and contemporary texts from the 1920s to the present day.
Rezension:
The Graphic Design Reader is a highly useful resource that will give wider exposure to a wealth of significant and insightful writing on graphic design, much of it new or not widely anthologized Journal of Design History