Hardcover
1999 · London
by Heller, Stephen and Jessica Helfand
London: Phaidon, 1999. Hardcover. G+ ex-museum library copy with stamps and a barcode sticker, light bumping and corner/edge wear, missing dust jacket.. Orange boards with black and orange stamped lettering. 255 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "Paul Rand (1914-96) was a pioneering figure in American graphic design. Adopting what he called a 'problem solving' approach to design, he drew on the ideas of European avant-garde art movements, such as Cubism, Constructivism and De Stijl, and synthesized them to produce his own distinctive graphic language." "Rand's career spanned almost seven decades and numerous chapters of design history. His own books are solidly thematic, whereas this definitive collection of his key published and proposed works is medium-driven. It explores the full range of his advertising, publishing and corporate identity work." "This detailed survey marks the first complete retrospective of Rand's powerful body of work."--Jacket.
(Inventory #: 168715)