A Century of Graphic Design by by Jeremy Aynsley is a delight to look at, with the cultural sensitivity for ephemera and the profound in the everyday with which graphic design history supplements the history of fine art. It is not, however, a joy to read. The prose is dry and the book neither conveys what others have said about changes in seeing and being, nor contributes a new point of view about the designers featured. The text often attributes significance without elaboration. Passages on individual designers taper off into a list of studios where they studied. Yet as a visual encyclopedia the book is a valuable resource, and not a bad place to start examining who influenced whom in the twentieth century. The collection of images makes a good job of covering the breadth of the period, with all of the nations, individuals, and move ... Read more to Download »

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