Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

＂In the Preface to the First Edition of A History of Graphic Design, Philip Meggs writes, ＂When we attempt to record the accomplishments of the past, we do so from the vantage point of our own time. History becomes a reflection of the needs, sensibilities, and attitudes of the chronicler’s time as surely as it represents the accomplishments of bygone eras.＂ Meggs’ First Edition not only created an outline of graphic design history, it defined the discipline as an area of study with a claim to its own history. While graphic design history as an academic discipline is still in its adolescence, the work of graphic design in the 21st century encompasses artifacts, experiences, frameworks, processes, data, and more. In today’s age of digital tools and platforms, the study of graphic design history exposes students to a pluralistic range of historical and contemporary design solutions. For students and practicing designers, learning graphic design history is relevant as a model for present and future design practice, a shared history of graphic design that points to the future of the discipline＂-- Provided by publisher.

Sandra Maxa (Baltimore, MD) is Director of the Graphic Design Master of Arts program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) where she teaches design theory, process and typography. She has served as visiting faculty at Pratt Institute, Parsons The New School for Design and Rutgers University - Newark.

Mark Sanders (Baltimore, MD) has been teaching typography, systems, and interaction design for over 20 years. His research investigates reinventing typographic and digital curriculum in response to the broadening roles and mediums of design. He has been faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Pratt Institute, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University - Newark.

As partners at the multi-disciplinary studio Q Collective, Sandra and Mark produce work that reflects a deep interest in identity, interactivity, history and visual culture. Sandra and Mark are also co-authors of the 6^th and 7^th editions of Typographic Design: Form and Communication.