Mapping graphic design history in Switzerland
By: Robert Lzicar, Davide Fornari (eds.) ; authors: Constance Delamadeleine [and fourteen others] ; translations: Isobel Butters Caleffi [and three others]
Publisher: Triest Verlag für Architektur, Design und Typografie
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9783038630098
Subjects: Graphic arts; History; Graphic design (Typography)
Description: Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland' presents for the first time eleven selected essays on the production, mediation and consumption of graphic design artefacts and processes, as well as their respective discourses by authors from the German, French and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland. 0The publication discusses theoretical and methodological approaches for historical research on graphic design, helps to establish graphic design history as an academic field in Switzerland, as well as to make this discourse accessible to researchers and professional graphic designers in Switzerland and abroad. 0All texts are illustrated with around 100 color and largely unpublished pictures. Besides these academic contributions, the publications contains three visual essays on the history of graphic design in Switzerland, as well as an extensive list of literature and other references.
Notes: Includes glossary inside the flaps.

Includes bibliographical references.