Graphic design before graphic designers : the printer as designer and craftsman : 1700-1914
Jury, David2012
Book
A comprehensive retelling of the history of printing from 1700 to 1914 and a cornucopia of visual and technical extravagance.
Main title:
Author:
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2012.
Collation:
312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical refererences and index.
Audience:
Tertiary/Undergraduate.General.
Contents:
Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: ch. One Alternative Functions Of The Black Art -- Letterpress printing and working conditions -- Training and aptitude -- The status of the early letterpress jobbing printer -- The sign-writer -- The jobbing engraver -- The engraved writing manual -- The engraved frontispiece and title page -- ch. Two Celebrating The Challenge Of Change -- Handcraft to mechanized industry -- Early nineteenth-century European typeface design -- Display typefaces: British typefoundries -- Popular reading: broadsides, chapbooks and almanacs -- Newspapers and early advertising -- Advertising and the growing influence of the USA -- Display typefaces: American wood type -- ch. Three Mechanization And International Ambition -- The influence of mechanization on the status of design -- Advertising and the advertising agency -- Packaging and the retail business -- Posters and the entertainment business -- Information design for transport systems --
ISBN:
05005164649780500516461
Dewey class:
741.6
LC class:
Z
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
114526
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Art and Culture | ARTS 741.6 JURY | Available |