Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Gallery is hosting a chronological exhibition of the work of three 20th-century designers whose careers spanned most of the modernist era. The roughly two-month-long show ...

Bacon was known for pioneering what the publishing industry calls the Big Book Look: hardcovers meant for the bestseller’s list with big, bold titles and quasi-abstract designs that synthesized the ...

Read all about them because the “Who’s Who” of iconic 20th century graphic designers is now available online. Graphic Design Archive is a dynamic new Web site featuring 30 individual designer archives ...

The 20th century was more than just a period of conflict and rapid technological advancement. It was also the time when design started to speak for itself through things like chair curves, jacket cuts ...

The recently published Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires, and Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986, edited and designed by Louise Sandhaus, is a spirited, subjective, willfully undefinitive ...

Known for its intelligence-gathering operations during World War II, the O.S.S. also helped shape the look of modern life. By Nikil Saval THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES was the first centralized ...

Central Academy of Fine Arts Woodblock Print Combat Group, “Smash the Old World. Establish the New World” (People’s Republic of China, 1967) (courtesy University of Chicago Press) Cover of Communist ...