Bending wire to hang clothes in a closet or to clip papers together were two designs born out of necessity. The wire hanger and the paper clip may be ordinary objects in our everyday lives, but in his ...
Pages from an Air Koryo notebook given out to business-class passengers (all images from the Collection of Nicholas Bonner, published by Phaidon in Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life in ...
Foreword / Steven Heller -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Josef Müller-Brockmann: "schutzt das Kind!" and the mythology of Swiss design -- Koloman Moser's Thirteenth Secession Exhibition poster ...
The origins of type and typography -- From Gutenberg to Bodoni -- 1. The nineteenth century: an expanding field. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of urban mass culture : New technologies ; ...