Meggs
Making Graphic Design History
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2007
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-470-00839-3 (ISBN)
Description
Graphic designer, professor, historian, and author Philip Baxter Meggs (1942-2002) was born in 1942, Meggs began teaching in the Communication Arts and Design Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, chairing the department from 1974 to 1987. In 1983, he published his History of Graphic Design--the book that not only put graphic design in its historical context; it put graphic design on the cultural map.
Before Phil Meggs wrote his seminal book, graphic design was left largely unchronicled. A History of Graphic Design offered designers and students of design a foundation on which to build, a starting point from which to move forward, and a context for graphic design's place in history.
This single work afforded an immediate legitimacy to a field that had, until that moment, been considered more of a trade than a profession. As Steven Heller wrote in PRINT magazine, Meggs "laid more than a groundwork; he built a monument to graphic design's legacy. Now he is an integral part of that legacy."
Meggs: Making Graphic Design History is at once a retrospective of Phil Megg's achievements as a historian, educator, and artist in his own right, a deserved tribute to his lasting influence on the graphic arts, and a loving memoriam written by family, friends, and colleagues who were lucky enough to have known him.
Reviews / Votes
".any designer who cares deeply about graphic design ought to have this book on their shelves." (Designorati.com; 10/07)More details
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 24.9 cm
Width: 19 cm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1011 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-00839-3 (9780470008393)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Foreword.
Contributing Essays.
Introduction by Rob Carter.
Growing Up With Phil by Bill Meggs.
The Collaboration by Libby Meggs.
Life By Design: From Ephemeral to Historical by Elizabeth Meggs.
Philip B. Meggs, a Memoir by Alston Purvis.
America's First Graphic Design Historian by Steven Heller.
Fond Personal Memories and Warm Professional Recollections by R. Roger Remington.
Philip B. Meggs: A Personal Remembrance by Roy McKelvey.
Selected Writings and Lectures.
Marshall McLuhan Lecture Notes.
Novum Education: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
George Tscherny.
The Demilitarization of Graphic Design.
Graphic Design History: Discipline or Anarchy?
Design Education: Pedagogy vs. the Real World.
The Swiss Influence: The Old New Wave.
Toulouse-Lautrec: Superb But Not Alone.
High Style, Low Style, Vile Style.
An Oracle of the 21st Century Book.
What is American About American Graphic Design?
Government Style: Design Consciousness and the Feds.
ITC Bashing.
Test Your Typographic IQ.
Louis Prang: The Man Who Brought Our the Artist in Children.
A Pantheon of Design Education.
Farewell to the Opulent Eighties.
Future Issues in Graphic Design Education.
The Women Who Saved New York.
The Obscene Typography Machine.
The 1940?s: Rise of the Modernists.
Excerpt from Type and Image.
Saul Bass on Corporate Identity.
The Design Education Quandry.
The Vitality of Risk.
The Designer, Paper, and the Environment.
Landmarks of Book Design, Second of a Series: For the Voice.
The Last Word on the Walker Show.
Women's Place: Two at the Top.
Peter Behrens: Designs Man of the Century?
Tibor the Pit Bull.
Landmarks of Book Design, Fourth of a Series: The Elements of Euclid.
I Am Type! Revisited.
Introduction to Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces.
Yin/Yang and the Art of Graphic Design.
Landmarks of Book Design, Seventh of a Series: American Typefounders Specimen Book and Catalog, 1923.
Tribute to an Unrepentant Modernist.
Landmarks of Book Design, Eighth of a Series: The Bald Soprano.
Required Reading for the Millennium.
Methods and Philosophy in Design History Research.
Back Talk: Philip B. Meggs, Design Historian.
Landmarks of Book Design, Tenth of a Series: Before Rosebud was a Sled.
Excerpt from Fotografiks.
Letters to Print: Critical Mass.
Letters to Print: Departed Icons.
Foreword to Revival of the Fittest.
Introduction to The Allure of Postage Stamps.
Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan.
Epilogue from the First Edition of A History of Graphic Standards.
Chronology.
List of Complete Writings.
Acknowledgements and Biographies.