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A review by mothteeff
Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs
1.0
Full disclosure, this was a textbook for my history of design class.
The writing was repetitive and formulaic, repeating slightly tweaked versions of the same information multiple times through each chapter. It’s far from concise with multiple paragraphs per chapter saying “this movement revolutionized graphic design because designers considered the relationship between visual and written information.” It likes to introduce a million different artists at once, leaving you with no real impression of any of them but the barest of facts about their personal lives.
The information is extremely focused on the western world and emphasizes written history as the only reliable source, completely dismissing oral histories.
Some antiquated language is also used, calling an artist an “invalid” and calling historical lower class people “illiterates.”
To top it all off the copy I purchased was misprinted with sone misaligned printing and the black pages showed every speck of oil from your fingers.
The writing was repetitive and formulaic, repeating slightly tweaked versions of the same information multiple times through each chapter. It’s far from concise with multiple paragraphs per chapter saying “this movement revolutionized graphic design because designers considered the relationship between visual and written information.” It likes to introduce a million different artists at once, leaving you with no real impression of any of them but the barest of facts about their personal lives.
The information is extremely focused on the western world and emphasizes written history as the only reliable source, completely dismissing oral histories.
Some antiquated language is also used, calling an artist an “invalid” and calling historical lower class people “illiterates.”
To top it all off the copy I purchased was misprinted with sone misaligned printing and the black pages showed every speck of oil from your fingers.