Details: Published by Wordsearch Ltd. Edited by Rick Poynor. 1990 - 1991. First edition. Softcover. Perfect bound. 94 to 88pp per issue. 240 x 294mm. Printed in colour, paginated. Text in English.
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Issue 1 - Agenda, Neville Brody. Reputations: Bruno Monguzzi, Valentina Boffa. Modernism by mail the editor. Official anarchy. Flexible geometry, Hugh Aldersey-Williams. The good radical, Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin. Cool, clear, collected, Robin Kinross. TV in the age of eye candy, Jim McClellan. Envisioning Information. Type90. Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History. What comes after the Mac?
Issue 2 - Green’s grey zones, Agenda, James Woudhuysen. Reputations: Alan Fletcher, Rick Poynor. Maps and dreams, Rick Poynor. Wheels of fortune, William Owen. Temple of type, Robin Kinross. Signals in the street, Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin. The designer unmasked, Gerard Forde. Art & Publicite 1890-1990. Design: Vignelli. America-Holland: Overseas Visions. Digital typesetting: how does it measure up?
Issue 3 - Get the message? Agenda, Michèle-Anne Dauppe. Reputations: Pierre Bernard, Rick Poynor. Paint it black, Klaus Thomas Edelmann. Technology, aesthetics and type, Robin Kinross. The academy of deconstructed design, Ellen Lupton. Cranbrook in close-up, Ellen Lupton. Traces of man, Liz Farrelly. Identity kit, Eye writers. The Art of Selling Songs: Graphics for the Music Business 1690-1990. Modernism and Eclecticism. Spirale: Eine Künstler-zeitschrift 1953-1963. Frederic Goudy. Paper.
Issue 4 - Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart, Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin. The Painted Word, Andrzej Klimowski. Guerrilla graphics, Steven Heller. Mondo magazines, William Owen. Cultural Identities, Margo Rouard-Snowman. Bj, Katy Homans. Typo Photo, Julia Thrift. The 37th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition. Philippe Apeloig, graphiste. Dutch Best Book Designs. Festival d’Affiches de Chaumont. Japanese Graphic Design. Jazz Graphics. Tools.
Very good condition; light shelf ware consistent with age. Interiors clean, slight tanning to outer edges. Bindings tight. Slight soiling and creasing to cover of issue 4. Please contact me should you have any further questions about condition.
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