Richard Hollis

From its roots in the development of printing, graphic design has evolved as a means of identification, information, and promotion to become a profession and discipline in its own right. This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corporate identity, television, and electronic media, and the impact of technical innovations such as photography and the computer. For the revised edition, a new final chapter covers all the recent international developments in graphic design, including the role of the computer and the Internet in design innovation and globalization. In the last years of the twentieth century, at a time when "designer products" and the use of logos grew in importance, the role of graphic designers became more complex, subversive, and sometimes more politicalwitness Oliviero Toscani's notorious advertisements for Benetton. Digital technology cleared the way for an astonishing proliferation of new typefaces, and words began to take second place to typography in a whole range of magazines and books as designers asserted the primacy of their medium. Designers and companies discussed here include Neville Brody, David Carson, Design Writing Research, Edward Fella, Tibor Kalman, Jeffery Keedy, LettError, Pierre di Sciullo, Tomato, Gerard Unger, Cornel Windlin, and a host of others. Over 800 illustrations, 30 in color.

A Concise History

Graphic Design

John Berger

Sven Blomberg

Chris Fox

Michael Dibb

Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists

Ways of Seeing

From the man who brought you the layout of John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' comes a comprehensive selection of writings covering over 40 years of reflection on graphic design history, from interviews, essays, letters and articles to lectures and course outlines. Designed by Richard Hollis himself and densely illustrated with over 500 thumbnail images, 'About Graphic Design' charts the insatiable curiosity and methodological rigour of the renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and historian.

About Graphic Design

Le Graphisme de 1890 à nos jours

Stručná historie grafického designu

El programa televisivo Ways of seeing, dirigido en 1972 por un jovencísimo John Berger, se propuso analizar cómo nuestros modos de ver afectan a la forma de interpretar. La serie recibió diversos premios, revolucionó la teoría del arte y fue adaptada al presente libro, convirtiéndose desde entonces en un título indispensable de la teoría del arte y de la comunicación visual. En estas páginas, Berger analiza cuatro aspectos de la interpretación de la pintura al óleo: su origen relacionado con el sentido de la propiedad, el uso continuado de la mujer como objeto pictórico, la relación entre la herencia visual de la pintura y la publicidad y, finalmente, la transformación del significado de la obra original en el marco de sus múltiples reproducciones. En esta nueva edición, minuciosamente revisada, se ha recuperado el diseño original de Richard Hollis.

MODOS DE VER

Covers a wide range of graphic design including film, magazines and posters. Also cover techniques used such as airbrushing and computer generated images

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling

A new edition of a seminalbook on the history of graphicdesign in the twentieth centuryby one of the leadingauthorities in the field.

Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century

By the 1950s, Switzerland had developed a distinct graphic language and a unique style of graphic design. This book gives an account of this period in graphic design history, setting the stylistic developments into the social & cultural context of the times.

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