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 ...

The Department of Art and Art History has long included a wide variety of graphic and digital design courses as part of an “area of focus” to go along with more traditional courses such as painting, ...

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 ...

The origins of type and typography -- From Gutenberg to Bodoni -- 1. The nineteenth century: an expanding field. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of urban mass culture : New technologies ; ...

Foreword / Steven Heller -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Josef Müller-Brockmann: "schutzt das Kind!" and the mythology of Swiss design -- Koloman Moser's Thirteenth Secession Exhibition poster ...

A page from the 2014 reissue of the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual showing a diagram explaining the use of arrows in wayfinding signage in subway stations (photo courtesy of ...

Disclaimer: These posters were originally designed to be placed publicly on the streets of Poland, so the size of the posters mentioned in this exhibition are mostly very large (approx. 26”x39”) and ...