Good textbook to use!

This was my textbook for a class, but it was so much fun to read and so informative and interesting that it's going in my permanent library.

Jan 2020 - enjoyed chapter on Arts & Crafts movement. Made a small vector library ripping off William Pickering's Elements of Euclid shapes and colors.

This is the book that made me want to become a graphic designer. It is well written, lots of photos and always a good source of inspiration.

Wish I could pause time and re-read this book examining every beautiful example. It makes you fall in love with the visual world.

Not bad.

A classic and a must-read.

*Foi um livro interessante para conhecer a história de tudo mas queria que fosse mais focado no design gráfico em si, e não só nos movimentos artísticos e políticos que influenciaram o design.
*Senti falta de designers não brancos, nem que fosse só em citação (tiveram alguns, mas não o bastante).

É o tipo de livro que é bom para procurar referências mas não vejo muita necessidade de jamais ler ele inteiro de novo.

Loved this book.

Before diving into Meggs’ History of Graphic Design, I faced a dilemma. Should I jump right in or should I wait until the fall since the book is required for Graphic Design History class? Once I began the first chapter, however, I couldn’t stop.

With almost 600 pages, the book began with the invention of writing and ended at the digital revolution. The first two parts are fascinating, especially chapters on the alphabets and the progression of print and typography. Part three and four are comprehensive in documenting the graphic design moments and prominent designers. While the layout is filled with rich visual examples to complement the texts, the body copy, which set in Sabon Next, is a bit loose.

The historical details definitely needed to be revisited again, but this is the first textbook that I have read from cover to cover.

This textbook was boring and dry in my experience and I am no textbook hater. I liked some of the information I learned in the book about Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing machine and also the illustrators of the dark ages.

Honestly this is more of an encyclopedia than a history and has quite a few blind-spots (it is rarely critical or even intellectual in any way) but is quite useful as a reference for movements and images.