Graphic Design: A Concise History by Richard Hollis, ISBN 0500203474
From its roots in the development of printing, graphic design has evolved as a means of identification, information, and promotion to become a profession and discipline in its own right. This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corporate identity, television, and electronic media, and the impact of technical innovations such as photography and the computer.
For the revised edition, a new final chapter covers all the recent international developments in graphic design, including the role of the computer and the Internet in design innovation and globalization. In the last years of the twentieth century, at a time when "designer products" and the use of logos grew in importance, the role of graphic designers became more complex, subversive, and sometimes more political -- witness Oliviero Toscani's notorious advertisements for Benetton. Digital technology cleared the way for an astonishing proliferation of new typefaces, and words began to take second place to typography in a whole range of magazines and books as designers asserted the primacy of their medium. Designers and companies discussed here include Neville Brody, David Carson, Design Writing Research, Edward Fella, Tibor Kalman, Jeffery Keedy, LettError, Pierre di Sciullo, Tomato, Gerard Unger, Cornel Windlin, and a host of others.
Autumn of the Moguls: How 20 Years of Inflated Egos, Deflated Stock Prices and All-Around Bad Behavior Brought the Media Business to Its Kne by Michael Wolff, ISBN 0066621135
There is no more astute, brutally honest, and entertaining chronicler of assorted media-world implosions than "New York magazine's National Magazine Award-winning columnist Michael Wolff. As once-mighty media empires -- and reputations -- have teetered and fallen over the past several years, Wolff has sorted through the wreckage (which he had often foretold) and fearlessly deconstructed the peculiar psychology behind the mess: the delusional ambitions of moguls -- and their yes-men -- whose outsized ambitions and empire-building ways have brought the media business to the brink of ruin. A former media entrepreneur himself (he told the story of the rise and fall of his own formidable Internet company in his best-selling memoir, "Burn Rate), Wolff has had a ringside seat as the conglomeratized worlds of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the Internet have taken often bewildering turns.
In "Autumn of the Moguls, a funny, frank, and incendiary account, Michael Wolff explains it...
Autumn of the Moguls: How 20 Years of Inflated Egos, Deflated Stock Prices and All-Around Bad Behavior Brought the Media Business to Its Kne by Michael Wolff, ISBN 0066621135
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Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities
Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities
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Global Terrorism: The Complete Reference Guide by Harry Henderson, ISBN 0816049580
Global Terrorism: The Complete Reference Guide by Harry Henderson, ISBN 0816049580
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