Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Here is the first definitive history of graphic communication. More than a thousand vivid illustrations chronicle our fascinating & unceasing quest to give visual form to ideas.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The Prologue to Graphic Design: The Visual Message from Prehistory through the Medieval Era
• A Graphic Renaissance: The Origins of European Typography and Design for Printing
• The Industrial Revolution: The Impact of Industrial Technology upon Visual Communications
• The Modernist Era: Graphic Design in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• The Age of Information: Graphic Design in the Global Village
• Epilogue
• Selected Bibliography
• Picture Credits
• Index