Alliance Graphique Internationale: Graphic Design Since 1950

Bys: Bos, Ben and Bos, Elly

Book Overview

AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) was founded in 1951 by a small, select group of French and Swiss graphic designers. Since then AGI has invited some 600 designers from more than thirty countries to join its ranks.

Together the members of AGI have written a significant part of the history of graphic design since the mid-twentieth century. This book tells the story of their accomplishments through a series of richly illustrated biographies, plus essays by prominent AGI members on past and present developments in visual communication.

The designers featured here include Alan Fletcher, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Roman Cieslewicz, Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar, Seymour Chwast, April Greiman, Yusaku Kamakura, Milton Glaser, Adrian Frutiger, Tibor Kalman, and hundreds more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500513422
• ISBN13: 9780500513422
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 7.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 8.5" x 10.9"