A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2 This book offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations are also included, along with lithographic examples, letters by signwriters, inscription carvers, and calligraphers. Featuring works by type designers including: William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger. In order to accommodate a vast amount of material, we have divided this text into two volumes. This, the second volume, covers the period from 1900 to the mid-20th century, and contains a historical outline by Alston W. Purvis. Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1400 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.

Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. Grid Index can be used to map out the underlying grids of any single image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, res...

1947年，《运动中的影响》出版后，如今已经是第8版。全书有440幅配图，其中11幅是彩色图片。本书是对1947年前后现代设计运动的一个详尽的视觉汇编。包括包豪斯和新包豪斯时期很多设计大师的作品，包括马歇?布劳耶（Marcel Breuer）、格罗皮乌斯（Walter Gropius）、奥斯卡?史莱姆（Oskar Schlemmer）和赫伯特?拜耶（Herbert Bayer）等。出现在本书里的艺术家、建筑家、设计师和摄影家都是20世纪现代运动中里程碑式的人物。如阿尔瓦?阿尔托、赫伯特?拜耶、德里弗斯、柯布西耶、格罗皮乌斯、保罗?兰德、怀特等。格罗皮乌斯评价：“本书是将会是设计教育里的先锋。”