Tag: Philip Meggs
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Design and image?
How can you tell if an Instagram account belongs to a graphic designer? While most people use the platform to display photos, graphic designers show letters: fonts, logos, posters, magazines, books, or websites. Even more fascinating is their use of a social network made for showcasing for photos to share little textual slideshows. This tendency…
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Modern Swiss Architecture – Max Bill
Perhaps the most salient feature of being a teacher, researcher, and curator in graphic design history is dealing with images from Philip Meggs, «A History of Graphic Design» – the closest equivalent to a material embodiment of the discipline’s canon. Over the years, I found myself looking for the artifacts that appeared on those pages,…
Unseen by Design 