Patrick Cramsie is a graphic designer whose work has centered on corporate identity and book design.It was while reviewing books for the Times Literary Supplement in London that he felt the need to have a comprehensive history of graphic design that also served as a introduction to the subject. The result is his new book, The Story of Graphic Design: From the Invention of Writing to the Birth of Digital Design.
For the Guardian he named a top ten list of graphic design books.
One title on the list:
The Passport by Saul SteinbergRead about the other books on the list.I could have chosen any number of Steinberg's books, but this is the first one I owned and so it's the first I fell in love with. Steinberg was best known as a cartoonist for the New Yorker – his New Yorker's view of the world showing Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the foreground, a strip of the Hudson River and New Jersey in the middle distance, and then a few rocky outcrops marking China, Russia and Japan will ring a bell with some – but actually he was a truly great artist. Has anybody explored the ideas surrounding individual identity with as much graphic skill, humour and intelligence?
--Marshal Zeringue
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