Catherine de Smet Book order (chronological)

The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011) comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Included in the anthology are texts by: Jeremy Aynsley Steve Baker Andrew Blauvelt Piers Carey François Chastanet Wen Huei Chou Denise Gonzales Crisp Brian Donnelly Johanna Drucker Steven Heller Richard Hollis Robin Kinross Ellen Lupton Victor Margolin Ellen Mazur Thomson Philip B. Meggs Gérard Mermoz Abbott Miller Rick Poynor Martha Scotford Catherine de Smet Teal Triggs Massimo Vignelli Bridget Wilkins

One of the most innovative French graphic designers, Catherine Zask's posters have the elegance and coherence of DNA, and indeed she works with the building blocks of writing and communication--letters. Here, in Poster Collection 12 , the series from the Zurich Museum fr Gestaltung, she allows the letters free rein to be musical, to trigger echoes, to store images, but never unmoors them from their task of providing written communication in an appropriate and comprehensible form. The dialogue with the client and the public is crucially important to “I make graphics to include the others.” Her work for SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multim»dia), the Hippodrome theater in Douai, and the Öcole d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais are evidence of the remarkable clarity and unmistakable individuality of her work.

Die Bauten von Le Corbusier gehören längst zum unverrückbaren Kanon der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt und bisher gar nicht gewürdigt, wurde Le Corbusiers Schaffen als Buchgestalter und Autor: Le Corbusier hat in seinem Leben über vierzig Bücher minutiös geplant und realisiert. Catherine de Smet, Kunsthistorikerin und Kritikerin, zeichnet erstmals, zum Teil anhand von unveröffentlichtem Archivmaterial, den Entstehungsprozess dieser Werke nach und erläutert, welche Bedeutung Le Corbusier dem Buch als wesentlichem Medium in seinem Schaffen beigemessen hat.