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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers (2nd edition)
Alan and Isabella Livingston
Thames & Hudson
London
2003
239 pp.
ISBN 0500203539
L8.95
World of Art
Keywords Graphic arts, Design
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310504132
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...