Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers - The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700-1914

David Jury

ISBN 10: 0500516464 / ISBN 13: 9780500516461

Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2012

About this Item

Visual history of the art of combining text and pictures for a range of printed material. 312pp with index and 779 illustrations, 560 in colour. Faint surface marking to boards, otherwise near fine opy with no inscriptions in near fine unclipped half-height dustwrapper. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required for Air Mail shipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers - The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700-1914
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500516464
• ISBN 13: 9780500516461
• Binding: Illustrated Green Boards
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

A rich, visual retelling of history, international in scope, this book charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. It is organized into six chapters, each beginning with a short introductory text before immersing the reader in a wealth of delightful and fully captioned examples of printed ephemera handbills, posters, advertisements, catalogues and labels that served the demands of the emerging consumer classes of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and reveal the extraordinary skill, craft, design sense and intelligence of those who created them. A book of great appeal, based on comprehensive, original research, it keys into the new appreciation of craft and hand-rendered graphic design.With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it will be of immense and lasting interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike.

About the Author

David Jury is a prolific writer, award-winning graphic designer and head of the MA course Art, Design and the Book at the Colchester Institute. He has written a number of books on the subject of typography and was the editor of the award-winning journal TypoGraphic. His previous books include Typography Today.