Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Typology. The characters of the visible world
  • Paper architecture. The graphics of stamps
  • Talking figures. The art of illustration
  • The return of pictograms. Semiosis dresses up
  • Posters. Notes towards an imaginary entry in a history of visual thought or, more precisely, of the printed artifacts known as posters
  • Digital soup. Culture of the CD-ROM?
  • Peter Behrens. Zeitgeist and letters
  • El Lissitzky. The electro-library of the constructor
  • Alexander Rodchenko. Advertising-constructor
  • Eric Gill. Stone carver
  • Jan Tschichold. Faith and reality
  • Kurt Schwitters. Merz ist form: the art of typography
  • Bauhaus. Type, typography, typopfoto
  • Paul Renner & Paul Rand. Two 20th-century masters
  • Wolfgang Weingart. From nieuwe beelding to new wave
  • Max Huber. Notes on concrete abstraction
  • Adrian Frutiger. Petite histoire de l'univers
  • Aldo Novarese. The italian way of type design
  • Giovanni Pintori. Effect of synthesis
  • Franco Grignani. Gestaltung
  • Wim Crouwel. Lowercase in the lowlands
  • Matthew Carter. A man of characters
  • Erik Spiekermann. The identity of Berlin
  • Tibor Kalman. And the heat goes on...
  • Ed Fella. The vernacular in American graphics.