Created to inform, identify and promote, graphic design is an essential part of our daily lives.

This new-look dictionary has over one-hundred-and-fifty new and updated entries. An indispensible reference work, it provides information about typographers (Jonathan Barnbrook), journals (Eye), movements and styles (Cubism), organizations and schools (Art Worker's Guild), printers and private presses (Ashendene Press), art directors (Henry Wolf), technological advances (laser printers), design studios (Fuel), graphic illustrators (Walter Crane) and poster artists (Jean Carlu).