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Cover of Letters from the Avant-garde
Letters from the Avant-Garde presents designs for businessephemera -- including stationery, envelopes, postcards, andbusiness cards -- created by F.T. Marinetti, AndreBreton, Herbert Bayer, Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Mies van der Rohe, Jan Tschichold, Ladislav Sutnar, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and many others.

Working in Europe and the U.S. between 1909 and 1950, these designers usedprinted stationery to project the public identities of avant-gardemovements to an international community, disseminating modernist theoryand practice around the globe via the postal service. Letters from theAvant-Garde features over 150 illustrations, in color and black andwhite, of printed ephemera from the collections of Elaine Lustig Cohen andother sources. Letters from the Avant-Garde is an invaluableresource for all those interested in graphic design, typography, and thehistory of modernism.

Critical essays show how artists and designers mobilized the techniques ofcommercial communication to promote their ideals and ambitions. Gatheredtogether for the first time, the materials presented in this book aretypographic self-portraits of the most influential people and institutionsin the development of modern design.

Cover of Design Writing Research
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller are the founders and directors of the graphic design program at the Maryland Institute of Art, as well as the authors of numerous books on design (Mixing Messages, Dimensional Typography, Mechanical Brides, see pages 25-26). This collection of their essays on graphic design, winner of a Design Destinction Award from I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review, is now available for the first time in paperback format."In these theoretical essays, the author-designers create their most challenging, playful, and original work". -- Michael Rock, I.D. Magazine"It is striking not just in ambition, range, and detail, but also in their attempt to embody ideas in and through design, taking seriously the fact that form and content intertwine". -- Robin Kinross, Eye"A pleasure to look at, to read, and to go back to over and over again. The writing is well researched, offers new ideas, and even a little controversy now and then. This is what contemporary design, writing, and research look like". -- Erik Spiekermann, Blueprint"Serious, considered, and provocative". -- Tod Lippy, Print