ABC of 20th-century graphics

Contents

Typology: The Characters of the Visible World -- Paper Architecture: The Graphics of Stamps -- Talking Figures: The Art of Illustration -- The Return of Pictograms: Semiosis Dresses Up -- Posters: Notes toward an Imaginary Entry in a History of Visual Thought or, more precisely, of the Printed Artifacts known as Posters -- Digital Soup: Culture of the CD-ROM? -- Zeitgeist and Letters / Peter Behrens -- The Electro-Library of the Constructor / El Lissitzky -- Advertising-Constructor / Alexander Rodchenko -- Stone Carver / Eric Gill -- Faith and Reality / Jan Tschichold -- Merz ist Form: the Art of Typography / Kurt Schwitters -- Type, Typography, Typophoto / Bauhaus -- Two 20th-Century Masters / Paul Renner and Paul Rand -- From Nieuwe Beelding to New Wave / Wolfgang Weingart -- Notes on Concrete Abstraction / Max Huber -- Petite Histoire de I'Univers / Adrian Frutiger -- The Italian Way of Type Design / Aldo Novarese -- Effect of Synthesis / Giovanni Pintori -- Gestaltung / Franco Grignani -- Lowercase in the Lowlands / Wim Crouwel -- A Man of Characters / Matthew Carter -- The Identity of Berlin / Erik Spiekermann -- And the Heat Goes On / Tibor Kalman -- The Vernacular in American Graphics / Ed Fella.