"This innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer's bookshelf"--

• Pre-20th-Century Influences
• The Modern Age 1900-1950
• The Impact of Invention 1878-1933
• Art and Technology, a New Unity 1901-1928
• Style and the Mass Market 1924
• 1947
• Between the Wars 1932
• 1945
• Post-War World 1950
• 2000
• Populuxe: The American Influence 1948
• 1961
• Modernism and the International Style 1950
• 1979
• Postmodernism and Beyond 1966
• 1995
• Beginning of the 21st Century