A Visual History of Graphic Design by Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann, published by Taschen (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Graphic design has been historically intertwined with ...

Some graphic forms are so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to remember that they were ever novel. But of course, there was a first time for everything. A new and comprehensive visual survey of graphic ...

Jens Müller, author of History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1, 1890–1959, offers up a selection of hidden gems in his remarkable new book. This guy started it all. Jules Chéret was not only a brilliant ...

"Game visuals are the most obvious indicator of their technology," Stuart Brown says in his Pixel Pioneers short documentary series on the graphic history of video games. Last month he released the ...

CHMMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of the Davidson Sterenfeld Family Foundation. CHMMAIN copy 39088020156550 purchased from the CHM Endowment. Volume 1, 1890-1959. A ...

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

Graphic design and illustration, as forms of visual communication, are a formative aspect of our everyday visual landscape. Posters, magazines, websites, and signage are just a few examples of the ...