Graphic Design: A Concise History, Second Edition (World of Art) Paperback – June 1, 2002

All the books from this Thames and Hudson's collection are a great investment. For this in particular, the only thing I would like to see was more bigger colour images. Nevertheless the content is very comprehensive.

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I bought this book for a Graphic Design History Class, and while it gets the job done in an informative sense, it is a rather unimpressive book in my personal opinion. The body copy is incredibly dense, and the illustrations are tiny and save for a few sections, in black and white, which sort of diminishes the impact. I honestly would have rather paid more for a larger textbook with larger, full color illustrations.It does get the job done as a textbook, but I'd kind of expect more from a textbook that is on Graphic Design.

This book is black and white as another reviewer indicated, almost all of it except for a few pages in the preview pictures on Amazon, which falsely give you the impression that it's a color book. In other words, it's a 232 pages book of which only 8 pages are in color and the rest in black and white. A book about graphic design in black and white loses most of its value because color choices are key elements to the design and understanding it. If this is a printing mistake and you have a copy with more color pages, please reply to this review.

Good resource

for design students. The book gives a complete analysis of the graphic design's history.

First: it is great book full of a lot of examples and connections. And I love it and I can recomend it for everyone who wants to know something about graphic design.But sometimes it lost connection between graphic and polictic, which is important in 1920s and 1930s.

Unless you are interested in the opinions of the author, the book is not worth the purchase price. Why? Illustrations. There are but a handful of color illustrations and the majority of all the illustrations are smaller than 1" x 1.5". Save the pennies and buy a history with illustrations that are in color and can be seen.