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Philip Baxter Meggs (30 May 1942 – 24 November 2002) [1] was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design. [2] He has been called the most important historian of design since Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983).
Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces, Philip B. Meggs, Rob Carter (1993) [4] Meggs: making graphic design history, Philip B. Meggs, Rob Carter, Libby Phillips Meggs, Sandy Wheeler (2007) [5] Digital Colour and Type, Typographic Design: Form And Communication, Rob Carter, Philip B. Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders (2014).
Graphic design is a profession, [2] academic discipline [3] [4] [5] and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. [6] Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design [1] and of the fine arts.
Heinz Schulz-Neudamm (born Paul Heinz Otto Schulz; 7 July 1899 – 13 May 1969) was a German graphic designer and illustrator. He is best known for designing posters for films. [ 1 ] The poster for Metropolis is considered the world's highest-valued poster.
The History of Graphic Design, Volume 1 explores the development of graphic design from the end of the 19th Century to the end of the 1950s. [6] It covers historically significant design styles like Futurism and the New Typography, and includes biographies of designers such as Henry van de Velde, Karel Teige, and James Pryde and William Nicholson.
Swiss style (also Swiss school or Swiss design) is a trend in graphic design, formed in the 1950s–1960s under the influence of such phenomena as the International Typographic Style, Russian Constructivism, the tradition of the Bauhaus school, the International Style, and classical modernism.
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Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. It may be applied in media such as print, electronic media, motion picture, animation, packaging, signs, identities, etc. Resources: meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project. Creation and improvement of illustrations for Wikimedia. Wikipedia:Graphic Lab ...