The Graphic Design Reader

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The Graphic Design Reader brings together key readings on this exciting and dynamic field to supply an crucial resource for students, reseachers and pracitioners. Taking as its starting point an exploration of the ways through which theory and practice, canons and anti-canons have operated inside the discipline, the Reader brings together writings by key international design and cultural critics, including Leslie Atzmon, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, Victor Margolin, Rick Poynor and Adrian Shaughnessy.

Extracts are structured into thematic sections addressing graphic design history; education and the profession; type and typography; crucial writing and practice; political and social change; the visual landscapes of graphic design, and graphic design futures. Each and every section has a contextual introduction by the editors outlining key ideas and debates, in addition to an annotated guide to further reading and a comprehensive bibliography.

The reader features original visual essays that provide a crucial platform for figuring out and interpreting graphic design practice, in addition to a wealth of illustrations accompanying key historical and latest texts from the 1920s to the present day.

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