Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design
by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic
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Read in November, 2007
A book by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić. Spans 208 pages and is entirely organized around reproductions. Starting from 1900 to 1999 editors picked a significant theme, style or mannerism such as "protest symbols," "flat color" "news overprint," "chaos principle," etc. and showed a significant piece of graphic design from that year. On the facing page are four more reproductions, two which came before the signature piece (presumably influenced it) and two ...more
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Read in June, 2008
if you're (over-) obsessed with graphic design comme moi, nothing revelatory. but as a general survey, it's nice & well illustrated, the spreads structured along lines of reference, quotation & influence, intentional and accidental.
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Read in January, 2005
One of my favorite design books...very comprehensive and inspiring.
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