Histories of Visual Communication Design

In this article, the history of visual communication design provides an area thematic convergence. The research represented here engages typographic communication, investigation familiar to journal's readership. Yet its significance extends beyond illuminating historical context singular designs or designers. Collectively, authors in issue join a broader and sustained interdisciplinary conversation between practice. Situating their relative shared expands relevance discrete areas focus. At inception, relied on intuition practitioners connoisseurship collectors; narrative prioritized aesthetic styles eminent first calls move such conceptualization emerged 1983 at Coming Age: First Symposium History Graphic Design.