Documents the impact of more than one hundred years of aesthetics, form, and content on developments in graphic communications.

This unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance, has now been brought into the twenty-first century. Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas perpetuate themselves over time, one great concept inspiring the next.

More than one hundred seminal images—one from each year—are shown alongside the works that influenced their creation and the designs that were inspired or evolved from them. Examples include work from both famous and anonymous graphic artists from Toulouse-Lautrec to Milton Glaser and Art Chantry, visually juxtaposing each example to illustrate a theme or artistic device. 860 illustrations, 675 in color.

Steve Heller is co-chair of the Designer as Author MFA Program at New York's School of Visual Arts and the author of over seventy books on graphic design. Mirko Ilic is a graphic designer who has won numerous awards for his hand-drawn design work. They collaborated on Handwritten, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Distributor: W. W. Norton
Publication Date: 05-26-2008
Pages: 224
Measurements: 12in X 9in