Graphic Design: A New History

摘要

To people outside the field, the preoccupation of graphic designers with such arcane matters as serifs, ligatures, or full-page bleeds may seem charming, if slightly myopic. It is useful to take another perspective, however. We long ago became accustomed to the idea that we are living in a media-saturated, communications-driven "information age." Insofar as graphic design-the interplay of text and image-often represents the final stage in the delivery of information, it can be thought of as lying close to the technological heart of our civilization. The growth of the field-from William Morris and the Kelmscott Press to motion graphics and Web 2.0-is the subject of Stephen J. Eskilson's "new history" of graphic design.