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The book includes works from over 300 designers in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Japan, and a series of interviews with designers such as Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, and Alan Fletcher. Ivan Chermayeff is one of the best American graphic designers, the son of the Russian born, British architect Serge Chermayeff.
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.
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a Logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
In 1994, Scher was the first designer to create a new identity and promotional graphics system for The Public Theater, a program that became the turning point of identity in designs that influence much of the graphic design created for theatrical promotion and for cultural institutions in general. [18]
He was Head of the Graphic Department from 1974 to 1975. He was author of extremely large opus: he created more than 1000 logos, a dozen of city coat-of-arms, about 20 one-off and bibliophile books and the same number of original letter designs, a big number of posters and other works from the field of graphic design. The most important works ...
Beate "Ati" Gropius Johansen (1926 — September 7, 2014) was a German-born graphic designer, artist, teacher, and illustrator. Her adoptive parents were Modernist architect Walter Gropius and his second wife Ise Frank Gropius, who was Ati's biological aunt. Throughout her career she illustrated 47 books.
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Optima, a flared sans-serif, was released by Stempel in 1958. Zapf intended the design to bridge serifs and sans serifs and to be suitable for both headings and continuous passages of text. [6] [7] Melior, inspired by Didone typography of around 1800, incorporating the superellipse as a design motif. Zapf's work reached into a range of genres.