It was the spectactular commercial boom that followed the Franco-Prussian War that was responsible for breathing new life into the field of advertising and fostering the aggressive, aesthetically adventurous and distinctive German graphic design style outlined in this book.
The twentieth century was a landmark era in graphic design, the art that combines words with graphic images on posters, book and magazine covers, record jackets, billboards, and other print advertising and publicity media. This visually magnificent and factually informative volume tells the story of graphic design, then gives separate illustrated ...
This study looks at the ways designers have addressed both the national and international context in which they have worked during this century. Text and illustrations show the positive response to avant garde ideas and the belief in the social relevance of design on an international level.
Jacques- mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and complex and varied textures has made this work a ...
German design and architecture reflects the country's rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley offers an in-depth study of this relationship between German history and design since 1870 and the complex principles underlying it. "Designing Modern Germany" reveals how German attitudes toward ...
"Design and the Modern" "Magazine" provides a thematically arranged set of essays that examine the changing character of the magazine as an important aspect of cultural life from the late nineteenth century until today. In doing so it offers some of the first detailed case-studies of individual titles and analyses how design decisions are made ...
This innovative book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last five hundred years. Looking at a rich array of depictions of the home, including paintings, novels, television, film, diaries, sketches and photographs, "Imagined Interiors" deals with both public and private attitudes to ...
Graphic design plays an integral role in modern life, its influence felt everywhere from the poster to the web page. This comprehensive reference work profiles over 60 of the most influential designers worldwide, from early leaders of the genre including Peter Behrens to Saul Bass, Neville Brody, and exponents of today's digital technology such as ...
Following on from the best-selling A Century of Design, this innovative new title by design expert Jeremy Aynsley offers a comprehensive, stylish guide to the most significant themes and genres in graphic design during the 20th century, from the innovative posters of Will Bradley and Henry van de Velde to the digital graphics of Neville Brody and ...
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