Meggs' History of Graphic Design

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    By Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

    After a close friend, J. M. Bowles, showed Kelmscott books to Rogers, his interest immediately shifted toward the total design of books. Bowles was running an art supply store and editing a small magazine called Modern Art. Louis Prang ...

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    By Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

    See the evolution of graphic design from cave paintings, to the development of typography, to the emergence of American modernism, and beyond, as this visually engaging edition provides: A complete and up-to-date examination of design ...

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    By Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

    This edition's historic account is an extraordinary panorama of people and events, including: The Invention of Writing and Alphabets Medieval Manuscript Books The Origins of Printing and Typography Renaissance Graphic Design The Arts and ...

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    By Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

    From Lascaux to Brooklyn. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1996. Hurlburt, Allen. Layout: The Design of the Printed Page. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1977. ———. Paul Rand: A Designer's Art. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1985.

  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    Meggs' History of Graphic Design
    By Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

    Graphic design education at Yale University School of Art In 1950 Josef Albers was appointed director of the art school at Yale University. During the same year he invited Alvin Eisenman (b. 1921) to direct the graphic design program, ...