The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers (2nd edition)

Graphic design is a means of visual communication which exploits the interaction of text and image to inform, identify and promote an idea, factual information or product. Traditionally, the graphic arts are paper‐based, but graphic designers employ all manner of two dimensional surfaces from shopping bags, CD covers and Web sites to book jackets and posters.

This dictionary includes more than 750 entries on all aspects of graphic design from 1840 to the present day, including the leading figures, movements in design, and also technical advances of the period. Now published in a new edition, over 150 entries have been...