[1st Eng Ed] Graphic Design Manual
First English edition of influential Swiss graphic designer Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual, published in 1965 by Reinhold Publishing Company. Layout and introductory remarks by Hofmann with a preface by George Nelson. Small 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, 172 pages, featuring 301 black-and-white illustrations. Hofmann (1920-2020), an educator as well as a practitioner, was instrumental in developing the “Swiss Style” of graphic design. His pioneering body of work included books, exhibitions, stage sets, logotypes, symbols, typography, posters, sign systems, and environmental graphics. His Graphic Design Manual, now an essential textbook in the field, is an exposition of his design philosophy, relying on fundamental elements of graphic form, namely point, line, and shape, to convey simplicity, complexity, representation, and abstraction. A clean and fresh copy, in an equally nice dust jacket that has only minor rubbing and bumping, a small chip at the head of the spine, and a closed one inch tear on the back near the lower edge.
First English edition of influential Swiss graphic designer Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual, published in 1965 by Reinhold Publishing Company. Layout and introductory remarks by Hofmann with a preface by George Nelson. Small 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, 172 pages, featuring 301 black-and-white illustrations. Hofmann (1920-2020), an educator as well as a practitioner, was instrumental in developing the “Swiss Style” of graphic design. His pioneering body of work included books, exhibitions, stage sets, logotypes, symbols, typography, posters, sign systems, and environmental graphics. His Graphic Design Manual, now an essential textbook in the field, is an exposition of his design philosophy, relying on fundamental elements of graphic form, namely point, line, and shape, to convey simplicity, complexity, representation, and abstraction. A clean and fresh copy, in an equally nice dust jacket that has only minor rubbing and bumping, a small chip at the head of the spine, and a closed one inch tear on the back near the lower edge.
First English edition of influential Swiss graphic designer Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual, published in 1965 by Reinhold Publishing Company. Layout and introductory remarks by Hofmann with a preface by George Nelson. Small 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, 172 pages, featuring 301 black-and-white illustrations. Hofmann (1920-2020), an educator as well as a practitioner, was instrumental in developing the “Swiss Style” of graphic design. His pioneering body of work included books, exhibitions, stage sets, logotypes, symbols, typography, posters, sign systems, and environmental graphics. His Graphic Design Manual, now an essential textbook in the field, is an exposition of his design philosophy, relying on fundamental elements of graphic form, namely point, line, and shape, to convey simplicity, complexity, representation, and abstraction. A clean and fresh copy, in an equally nice dust jacket that has only minor rubbing and bumping, a small chip at the head of the spine, and a closed one inch tear on the back near the lower edge.
