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Cover art. Harper's Magazine, June 1896, by Edward Penfield. Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket ), magazine, newspaper ( tabloid ), comic book, video game ( box art ), music album ( album art ), CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast. [1]
The International Typographic Style is a systemic approach to graphic design that emerged during the 1930s – 1950s but continued to develop internationally. It is considered the basis of the Swiss style. [ 1][ 2] It expanded on and formalized the modernist typographic innovations of the 1920s that emerged in part out of art movements such as ...
Cipe Pineles. Cipe Pineles (June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) was an Austrian -born graphic designer and art director who made her career in New York at such magazines as Seventeen, Charm, Glamour, House & Garden, Vanity Fair and Vogue. [ 1] She was the first female art director of many major magazines, as well as being credited as the first ...
Commercial art. Commercial art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. Commercial art uses a variety of platforms (magazines, websites, apps, television, etc.) for viewers with the intent of promoting the sale and interest of products, services, and ideas. [ 1]
Throughout his career, Kidd has been a graphic designer, book designer, editor, author, lecturer and musician. According to Graphic Design: American Two, he has been credited with “helping to spawn a revolution in the art of America book packaging in the last ten years.” [3] One of the most consistent characteristics of Kidd's style is the fact that his book covers don't carry one ...
First published in London in 1990, Eye was founded by Rick Poynor, a prolific writer on graphic design and visual communication. Poynor edited the first twenty-four issues (1990–1997). Max Bruinsma was the second editor, editing issues 25–32 (1997–1999), before its current editor John L. Walters took over in 1999.
Henry Wolf (May 23, 1925 – February 14, 2005) was an Austrian-born, American graphic designer, photographer and art director.He influenced and energized magazine design during the 1950s and 1960s with his bold layouts, elegant typography, and whimsical cover photographs while serving as art director at Esquire, Bazaar, and Show magazines.
Graphic design is a profession, [ 2 ] academic discipline [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. [ 6 ] Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design [ 1 ] and of the fine arts.