Scope and Contents

Ilic often collaborates with Steven Heller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This book documents a 100 year history of graphic design, one from each year of the 20th century in 100 categories e.g. Expressive Hands, circles and Wedges, Protest Symbols and Visualizing Music. The Sackner Archive holds several of the books and posters that are depicted in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket description: Hand-drawn graphics mark a return to the creator's immediacy and craft. Increasingly, advertising campaigns, CD covers, and branding are adopting the rough-hewn style of manually created typography. Notable recent examples can be seen in the Calvin Klein campaign designed by M/M, Paris, the self-inflicted body marks of Stefan Sagmeister, and the painstaking illustrations of Pentagram partner Paula Scher. This is the first publication to offer a complete overview of handwritten typographics, drawing on an extensive array of examples from around the world. At the heart of the book are hundreds of graphics, presented in creative themes: "Scrawl" (letterforms that are raw, splotchy, untidy); "Scratch" (scraped, cut, gouged fonts); "Script" (type that is sinuous, curlicued, ornate); "Simulate" (typefaces that have been redrawn or copied); "Shadow" (dimensional, voluminous, and monumental letterforms); "Suggestive" (forms that suggest the metaphorical, surreal,...