Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design

Product Description

An accessible, visual overview of the history of graphic design illustrated through profiles of the industry's 50 most influential designers.
Visual and colorful, each design icon has 2-6 pages showing his or her important work, along with a brief biography

• Noteworthy accomplishments are highlighted, making it easy to gain essential information from the book
• Featured designers include well-known legends like Paul Rand and Massimo Vignelli, as well as pioneers like Cipe Pineles, the first female art director of a major U.S. magazine, and Georg Olden, the first prominent African American graphic designer
• Looks like a gift book, functions like a textbook

 Who are history's most iconic graphic designers? Let the debate begin here. In this gorgeous, visual overview of the history of graphic design, you're introduced to 50 of the most important designers from the early 20th century to the present day. This fun-to-read, pretty-to-look-at graphic design history primer introduces you to the work and notable achievements of such industry luminaries as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, A.M. Cassandre, Alvin Lustig, Cipe Pineles, Armin Hofmann, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Paula Scher, and more.

Who coined the term 'graphic design'? Who designed the first album cover? Who was the first female art director of a mass-market American magazine? Who created the 'I Want My MTV' ad campaign? Who created the first mail-order font shop? In Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design, you start with the who and quickly learn the what, when, why, and where behind graphic design's most important breakthroughs and the impact they had, and continue to have, on the world we live in.