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Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)

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insightful, full of samples (about 800 though largely black & white) a great guide to graphic styles, and the key movers & shakers in the history of graphic design right through from the 1890s to the 1990s.

a huge resource for such a little book, definately worth reading if not just to look at the pictures...

This is an excellent guide to the history of graphic design. I really enjoyed reading
this insightful view of graphic design. It has lots of useful information on the history
of graphic design from early posters to the electronic age. I have found this as a good
book for my study as an art student. I would recomend this to anyone interested in
graphic design history or if you are thinking of the graphic arts industry.

First: it is great book full of a lot of examples and connections. And I love it and I can recomend it for everyone who wants to know something about graphic design.
But sometimes it lost connection between graphic and polictic, which is important in 1920s and 1930s.

Unless you are interested in the opinions of the author, the book is not worth the purchase price. Why? Illustrations. There are but a handful of color illustrations and the majority of all the illustrations are smaller than 1" x 1.5". Save the pennies and buy a history with illustrations that are in color and can be seen.

I bought this book for a Graphic Design History Class, and while it gets the job done in an informative sense, it is a rather unimpressive book in my personal opinion. The body copy is incredibly dense, and the illustrations are tiny and save for a few sections, in black and white, which sort of diminishes the impact. I honestly would have rather paid more for a larger textbook with larger, full color illustrations.
It does get the job done as a textbook, but I'd kind of expect more from a textbook that is on Graphic Design.

The type (copy) and the book itself are really small and hard to read. It's more like a pocket size handbook. I should have done more research before I purchased; I made the inaccurate assumption that art/design books are usually larger in scale. I can't comment on the content of the book because the size of it was such an impediment I stopped reading after a few chapters.

for design students. The book gives a complete analysis of the graphic design's history.