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| Meggs' History of Graphic Design | 
 enlarge | Authors: Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 14114
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0471699020
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.22
EAN: 9780471699026
ASIN: 0471699020
Publication Date: December 7, 2005
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Product Description
Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston Purvis, this authoritative book offers more than 450 new images, along with expansive coverage of such topics as Italian, Russian, and Dutch design. It reveals a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important design innovations.
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 Must have reference book for graphic designers March 20, 2001
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
In my opinion, this 3rd Edition "A History of GD" is the best reference book written about graphic design. This 500 plus pages book/bible is simply divided into 5 sections, 1) The Prologue to Graphic Design, 2) A Graphic Rennaissance, 3) The Industrial Revolution, 4)The Modernist Era, and 5) The Age of Information. The topics range from the invention of writing to, creation of new typogrphic styles to, the digital revolution and computer art. There are plenty of graphics and photos on every page to accompany the wonderfully written text. If you study art history or graphic design, I think this would be a great reference book to have. It will take some time to read the entire book. But this is like a text book, so, reading only part of the chapters would be quite informative as well. Once you are done, you will definitely appreciate graphic design/graphic designers.
a reference for every project July 21, 1998
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was introduced to this book early in my undergraduate studies of design but rediscovered it during my recently completed senior year. It became a reference for every project and a permanent fixture on my bedside table. I was required to read many different books on history but this was the only one that I read time and time again.
Most Comprehensive Graphic History text around! August 3, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a class and am incredibly impressed. It covers the evolution of graphic communication from the earliest cave paintings to the web. This book has incredible pictures and describes different styles in an easy to understand format. It is thick, but is one of the best reference books for choosing style and historical content. I normally sell back my textbooks, but this one is staying in my library!
The Book June 17, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is The Book, a must-have. Incredibly helpful. What I like best - it provides an outstandingly complete context in which certain individual works and trends were developed. Also, you don't have to read the whole - very big - book to understand the things you're currently looking for; it's a great reference. And if you don't find something, at least you know where else to look and which next bookshelf to address. Nothing comes close.
 shame September 4, 1998
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
Very well organized, structured, etc, etc.... but, can you believe the illustrations of posters and printed examples in this book have NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACTUAL SIZE of them????? What happened??? Were all designers doing postcards and stamps before our time???
The author is also very biased, which I guess is the only way to go when you have to pick what to include in such an ambitious work. When talking about Malevich's black square, to fail to mention that he had positioned this painting in the corner of the room where orthodox icons go in houses, is quite decontextualizing.
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