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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design

by John Clifford
August 2013
Beginner
240 pages
6h 16m
English
Peachpit Press
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Lester Beall

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1903–1969 | BORN: Kansas City, Missouri | EDUCATION: University of Chicago

Launched the modern graphic design movement in the United States

Designed famous posters pushing the benefits of electricity

Advanced corporate-identity design

Lester Beall studied art history in Chicago, but his true education in modernism came from French magazines and Bauhaus books. Beall became the first American graphic designer to successfully integrate the European avant-garde into corporate America, and he did it through his designs of posters, magazines, packaging, and identities.

In the mid 1930s, nine out of ten rural homes in the United States did ...

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