"Covering a huge range of material -- from historic titlesby pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today's leading studios... provides a striking insight into the evolution of graphic design in the twentieth century. Classic graphic design manuals by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Josef Muller-Brockmann are included,alongside groundbreaking instructional titles on advertising and corporate identity. Monographs designed byand covering the major individuals and studios of the era -- from A.M. Cassandre and Alexey Brodovitch to Stefan Sagmeister and Peter Saville -- are explored, along with seminal anthologies on trademark design, Polish film posters, the impact of the avant-garde, and more." --book jacket

• Instructional: Layout in advertising W.A. Dwiggins
• Alfred Tolmer
• Joseph Binder
• Gyorgy Kepes
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• Josef Muller-Brockmann
• Aaron Burns
• John Lewis
• Armin Hofmann
• Anton Stankowski
• Emil Ruder
• Crosby|Fletcher|Forves
• Josef Muller-Brockmann
• Edward R. Tufte
• Derek Birdsall
• Karl Gerstner, Markus Kutter
• Eckhard Neumann
• Herbert Spencer
• John Garrigan, Margaret Cogswell, Milton Glaser
• Edward Booth-Clibborn, Daniele Baroni
• Philip B. Meggs
• Gerd Fleischmann
• Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott, Bernard Stein
• Steven Heller, Seymour Chwast
• Richard Hollis Mise en page Colour in advertising Language of vision Vision in motion The graphic artist and his design problems Typography Typography: basic principles Graphic design manual Visual presentation of invisible processes Typography A sign systems manual Grid systems in graphic design The visual display of quantitative information Notes on book design Histories: the new graphic art Functional graphic design in the 20's Pioneers of modern typography Images of an Era The language of graphics A history of graphic design Bauhaus: Drucksachen, typografie, reklame Typography: when who how Graphic styles Graphic design: a concise history

• Anthologies: Seven designers look at trademark design Egbert Jacobson (editor)
• Tadeusz Kowalski (editor)
• Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Bob Gill
• Hans Neuburg
• F.H.K. Henrion, Alan Parkin
• Walter Herdeg (editor)
• F.H.K. Henrion
• Herbert Spencer (editor)
• Edward Booth-Clibborn
• Carouschka Streijffert, Peter Kihlgard Polski plakat filmomy Graphic design: visual comparisons Publicity and graphic design in the chemical industry Design coordination and corporate image Graphic diagrams Top graphic design The liberated page Typography now Carouschka's tickets

• Monographs: Thoughts on design Paul Rand
• Erberto Carboni
• Ladislav Sutnar
• Ben Shahn
• Milton Glaser
• Yusaku Kamekura
• Ruari McLean
• George Lois, Bill Pitts
• Tadanori Yokoo
• George Hardie, Storm Thorgerson
• Bob Gill
• Paul Rand
• Gertrude Snyder, Alan Peckolick
• Henri Mouron Esposizioni e mostre Visual design in action Love and joy about letters Milton glaser: graphic design The graphic design of Yusaku Kamekura Jan Tschichold: Typographer The art of advertising The complete Tadanori Yokoo 'Walk away rene Living by design
• Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design. Including the ones in this book Lo studio boggeri: 1933-1981
• Paul Rand: a designer's art Herb Lubalin: art director, graphic designer and typographer Cassandre

• Typography: American line type book
• Jan Tschichold
• Imre Reiner
• Gerard Knuttel
• Hermann Zapf
• W. Turner Berry, A.F. Johnson, W.P. Jaspert
• James Sutton, Alan Bartram
• Rob Roy Kelly
• David Lance Goines
• Takenobu Igarashi
• Colin Banks
• Lars Muller
• Clarence P. Hornung
• John Lewis
• Jacques Bertin
• Robert Massin
• Yasaburo Kawayama
• Claude Humbert
• Henry Dreyfuss
• Rudolf modley
• Jock Kinneir
• Philip Thompson, Peter Davenport
• Charles S. Anderson
• Hans-Rodulf Lutz
• Julian Rothenstein Specimen general: tome 1
• Die neue typographie Modern and historical typography The letter as a work of art Manuale typographicum The encyclopaedia of type faces Alphabet thesaurus nine thousand
• An atlas of typeforms Wood 2
• American wood type: 1828-1900 Letraset
• A constructed Roman alphabet Igarashi alphabets London's handwriting Helvetica: homage to a typeface Sourcebooks: Handbook of designs and devices Printed ephemera Semiologie graphique Letter and image Trade marks & symbols Label design Symbol sourcebook Handbook of pictorial symbols Words and buildings The dictionary of visual language Old advertising cuts from A-Z Today's hieroglyphs Alphabets & other signs