Typography and graphic design : from antiquity to the present /
Roxane Jubert ; forewords by Ellen Lupton and Serge Lemoine ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre and David. Radzinowicz.
- English-language ed.
- Paris : Flammarion, 2006.
- 431 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
"Originally published in French as Graphisme, Typographie, Histoire. Flammarion, Paris, 2005"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-431) and index.
Part 1. From antiquity to modern times : archaic signs, figures, and writing ; The middle ages: graphic design as cottage industry ; Techniques and materials: paper, printing, and composition ; The Renaissance: fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; The passage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries ; The Neoclassical period -- Part 2. The long nineteenth century : Decisive changes ; A revival in the arts and graphics ; Affirmations of modernity -- Part 3. The first third of the twentieth century : The avant-garde floodtide -- World War I -- Continuation and reconstruction in the avant-garde -- Part 4. From the rise of totalitarianism to World War II : Totalitarianism: the avant-garde exile and survival ; World War II -- Part 5. Postwar economic boom : Characteristics and horizons ; Creativity and trends country by country ; Professionalism and expansion -- Part 6. The final decades of the twentieth century : Pre-digital graphic design: context and overview ; Experimentation in the 1970s ; The advent of digital design ; Widespread freedom.
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Graphic design (Typography)--History. Printing--History. Graphic arts--History. Arts graphiques--Histoire. Imprimerie--Histoire.